Panama - Land area

Land area (sq. km)

The value for Land area (sq. km) in Panama was 74,177 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 74,340 in 2013 and a minimum value of 74,120 in 2014.

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 74,340
1962 74,340
1963 74,340
1964 74,340
1965 74,340
1966 74,340
1967 74,340
1968 74,340
1969 74,340
1970 74,340
1971 74,340
1972 74,340
1973 74,340
1974 74,340
1975 74,340
1976 74,340
1977 74,340
1978 74,340
1979 74,340
1980 74,340
1981 74,340
1982 74,340
1983 74,340
1984 74,340
1985 74,340
1986 74,340
1987 74,340
1988 74,340
1989 74,340
1990 74,340
1991 74,340
1992 74,340
1993 74,340
1994 74,340
1995 74,340
1996 74,340
1997 74,340
1998 74,340
1999 74,340
2000 74,340
2001 74,340
2002 74,340
2003 74,340
2004 74,340
2005 74,340
2006 74,340
2007 74,340
2008 74,340
2009 74,340
2010 74,340
2011 74,340
2012 74,340
2013 74,340
2014 74,120
2015 74,120
2016 74,120
2017 74,120
2018 74,177
2019 74,177
2020 74,177
2021 74,177

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 71,714
2000 71,714
2010 71,714

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 2,892
2000 2,892
2010 2,892

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Land use