El Salvador - Land area

Land area (sq. km)

The value for Land area (sq. km) in El Salvador was 20,720 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 20,850 in 1975 and a minimum value of 20,720 in 1976.

Definition: Land area is a country's total area, excluding area under inland water bodies, national claims to continental shelf, and exclusive economic zones. In most cases the definition of inland water bodies includes major rivers and lakes.

Source: Food and Agriculture Organization, electronic files and web site.

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Year Value
1961 20,850
1962 20,850
1963 20,850
1964 20,850
1965 20,850
1966 20,850
1967 20,850
1968 20,850
1969 20,850
1970 20,850
1971 20,850
1972 20,850
1973 20,850
1974 20,850
1975 20,850
1976 20,720
1977 20,720
1978 20,720
1979 20,720
1980 20,720
1981 20,720
1982 20,720
1983 20,720
1984 20,720
1985 20,720
1986 20,720
1987 20,720
1988 20,720
1989 20,720
1990 20,720
1991 20,720
1992 20,720
1993 20,720
1994 20,720
1995 20,720
1996 20,720
1997 20,720
1998 20,720
1999 20,720
2000 20,720
2001 20,720
2002 20,720
2003 20,720
2004 20,720
2005 20,720
2006 20,720
2007 20,720
2008 20,720
2009 20,720
2010 20,720
2011 20,720
2012 20,720
2013 20,720
2014 20,720
2015 20,720
2016 20,720
2017 20,720
2018 20,720
2019 20,720
2020 20,720
2021 20,720

Rural land area (sq. km)

Definition: Rural land area in square kilometers, derived from urban extent grids which distinguish urban and rural areas based on a combination of population counts (persons), settlement points, and the presence of Nighttime Lights. Areas are defined as urban where contiguous lighted cells from the Nighttime Lights or approximated urban extents based on buffered settlement points for which the total population is greater than 5,000 persons.

Source: Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)/Columbia University. 2013. Urban-Rural Population and Land Area Estimates Version 2. Palisades, NY: NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC). http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.e

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Year Value
1990 16,350
2000 16,350
2010 16,350

Urban land area (sq. km)

Definition: Urban land area in square kilometers, based on a combination of population counts (persons), settlement points, and the presence of Nighttime Lights. Areas are defined as urban where contiguous lighted cells from the Nighttime Lights or approximated urban extents based on buffered settlement points for which the total population is greater than 5,000 persons.

Source: Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)/Columbia University. 2013. Urban-Rural Population and Land Area Estimates Version 2. Palisades, NY: NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC). http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.e

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Year Value
1990 3,598
2000 3,598
2010 3,598

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Land use