New Zealand - Land area

Land area (sq. km)

The value for Land area (sq. km) in New Zealand was 263,310 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 263,310 in 2021 and a minimum value of 263,310 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 263,310
1962 263,310
1963 263,310
1964 263,310
1965 263,310
1966 263,310
1967 263,310
1968 263,310
1969 263,310
1970 263,310
1971 263,310
1972 263,310
1973 263,310
1974 263,310
1975 263,310
1976 263,310
1977 263,310
1978 263,310
1979 263,310
1980 263,310
1981 263,310
1982 263,310
1983 263,310
1984 263,310
1985 263,310
1986 263,310
1987 263,310
1988 263,310
1989 263,310
1990 263,310
1991 263,310
1992 263,310
1993 263,310
1994 263,310
1995 263,310
1996 263,310
1997 263,310
1998 263,310
1999 263,310
2000 263,310
2001 263,310
2002 263,310
2003 263,310
2004 263,310
2005 263,310
2006 263,310
2007 263,310
2008 263,310
2009 263,310
2010 263,310
2011 263,310
2012 263,310
2013 263,310
2014 263,310
2015 263,310
2016 263,310
2017 263,310
2018 263,310
2019 263,310
2020 263,310
2021 263,310

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 253,835
2000 253,835
2010 253,835

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 8,116
2000 8,116
2010 8,116

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Land use