Latvia - Land area

Land area (sq. km)

The value for Land area (sq. km) in Latvia was 62,090 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 62,240 in 2010 and a minimum value of 62,090 in 2018.

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 62,196
1962 62,196
1963 62,196
1964 62,196
1965 62,196
1966 62,196
1967 62,196
1968 62,196
1969 62,196
1970 62,196
1971 62,196
1972 62,196
1973 62,196
1974 62,196
1975 62,196
1976 62,196
1977 62,196
1978 62,196
1979 62,196
1980 62,196
1981 62,196
1982 62,196
1983 62,196
1984 62,196
1985 62,196
1986 62,196
1987 62,196
1988 62,196
1989 62,196
1990 62,196
1991 62,196
1992 62,196
1993 62,196
1994 62,196
1995 62,196
1996 62,196
1997 62,196
1998 62,196
1999 62,196
2000 62,196
2001 62,196
2002 62,196
2003 62,196
2004 62,196
2005 62,196
2006 62,196
2007 62,196
2008 62,196
2009 62,180
2010 62,240
2011 62,200
2012 62,180
2013 62,190
2014 62,140
2015 62,130
2016 62,120
2017 62,110
2018 62,090
2019 62,090
2020 62,090
2021 62,090

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 60,137
2000 60,137
2010 60,137

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 3,279
2000 3,279
2010 3,279

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Land use