Kuwait - Land area

Land area (sq. km)

The value for Land area (sq. km) in Kuwait was 17,820 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 17,820 in 2021 and a minimum value of 17,820 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 17,820
1962 17,820
1963 17,820
1964 17,820
1965 17,820
1966 17,820
1967 17,820
1968 17,820
1969 17,820
1970 17,820
1971 17,820
1972 17,820
1973 17,820
1974 17,820
1975 17,820
1976 17,820
1977 17,820
1978 17,820
1979 17,820
1980 17,820
1981 17,820
1982 17,820
1983 17,820
1984 17,820
1985 17,820
1986 17,820
1987 17,820
1988 17,820
1989 17,820
1990 17,820
1991 17,820
1992 17,820
1993 17,820
1994 17,820
1995 17,820
1996 17,820
1997 17,820
1998 17,820
1999 17,820
2000 17,820
2001 17,820
2002 17,820
2003 17,820
2004 17,820
2005 17,820
2006 17,820
2007 17,820
2008 17,820
2009 17,820
2010 17,820
2011 17,820
2012 17,820
2013 17,820
2014 17,820
2015 17,820
2016 17,820
2017 17,820
2018 17,820
2019 17,820
2020 17,820
2021 17,820

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 13,423
2000 13,423
2010 13,423

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 3,942
2000 3,942
2010 3,942

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Land use