Micronesia - Land area

Land area (sq. km)

The value for Land area (sq. km) in Micronesia was 700.00 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 30 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 700.00 in 2021 and a minimum value of 700.00 in 1991.

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
1991 700.00
1992 700.00
1993 700.00
1994 700.00
1995 700.00
1996 700.00
1997 700.00
1998 700.00
1999 700.00
2000 700.00
2001 700.00
2002 700.00
2003 700.00
2004 700.00
2005 700.00
2006 700.00
2007 700.00
2008 700.00
2009 700.00
2010 700.00
2011 700.00
2012 700.00
2013 700.00
2014 700.00
2015 700.00
2016 700.00
2017 700.00
2018 700.00
2019 700.00
2020 700.00
2021 700.00

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 517.31
2000 517.31
2010 517.31

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

See also:

Year Value
1990 243.11
2000 243.11
2010 243.11

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Land use