Kenya - Land area

Land area (sq. km)

The value for Land area (sq. km) in Kenya was 569,140 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 569,140 in 2021 and a minimum value of 569,140 in 1961.

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 569,140
1962 569,140
1963 569,140
1964 569,140
1965 569,140
1966 569,140
1967 569,140
1968 569,140
1969 569,140
1970 569,140
1971 569,140
1972 569,140
1973 569,140
1974 569,140
1975 569,140
1976 569,140
1977 569,140
1978 569,140
1979 569,140
1980 569,140
1981 569,140
1982 569,140
1983 569,140
1984 569,140
1985 569,140
1986 569,140
1987 569,140
1988 569,140
1989 569,140
1990 569,140
1991 569,140
1992 569,140
1993 569,140
1994 569,140
1995 569,140
1996 569,140
1997 569,140
1998 569,140
1999 569,140
2000 569,140
2001 569,140
2002 569,140
2003 569,140
2004 569,140
2005 569,140
2006 569,140
2007 569,140
2008 569,140
2009 569,140
2010 569,140
2011 569,140
2012 569,140
2013 569,140
2014 569,140
2015 569,140
2016 569,140
2017 569,140
2018 569,140
2019 569,140
2020 569,140
2021 569,140

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 576,334
2000 576,334
2010 576,334

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 4,188
2000 4,188
2010 4,188

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Land use