Korea - Land area

Land area (sq. km)

The value for Land area (sq. km) in Korea was 97,520 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 97,520 in 2021 and a minimum value of 96,460 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 96,460
1962 96,460
1963 96,460
1964 96,460
1965 96,460
1966 96,460
1967 96,460
1968 96,460
1969 96,460
1970 96,460
1971 96,460
1972 96,460
1973 96,460
1974 96,460
1975 96,460
1976 96,460
1977 96,460
1978 96,460
1979 96,460
1980 96,460
1981 96,460
1982 96,460
1983 96,460
1984 96,460
1985 96,460
1986 96,460
1987 96,460
1988 96,460
1989 96,460
1990 96,460
1991 96,460
1992 96,460
1993 96,460
1994 96,460
1995 96,460
1996 96,460
1997 96,460
1998 96,460
1999 96,460
2000 96,460
2001 96,740
2002 96,790
2003 96,800
2004 96,820
2005 96,850
2006 96,880
2007 96,920
2008 96,990
2009 97,060
2010 97,200
2011 97,190
2012 97,310
2013 97,426
2014 97,430
2015 97,445
2016 97,489
2017 97,510
2018 97,520
2019 97,520
2020 97,520
2021 97,520

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 77,155
2000 77,155
2010 77,155

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 21,922
2000 21,922
2010 21,922

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Land use