São Tomé and Principe - Land area

Land area (sq. km)

The value for Land area (sq. km) in São Tomé and Principe was 960.00 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 960.00 in 2021 and a minimum value of 960.00 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 960.00
1962 960.00
1963 960.00
1964 960.00
1965 960.00
1966 960.00
1967 960.00
1968 960.00
1969 960.00
1970 960.00
1971 960.00
1972 960.00
1973 960.00
1974 960.00
1975 960.00
1976 960.00
1977 960.00
1978 960.00
1979 960.00
1980 960.00
1981 960.00
1982 960.00
1983 960.00
1984 960.00
1985 960.00
1986 960.00
1987 960.00
1988 960.00
1989 960.00
1990 960.00
1991 960.00
1992 960.00
1993 960.00
1994 960.00
1995 960.00
1996 960.00
1997 960.00
1998 960.00
1999 960.00
2000 960.00
2001 960.00
2002 960.00
2003 960.00
2004 960.00
2005 960.00
2006 960.00
2007 960.00
2008 960.00
2009 960.00
2010 960.00
2011 960.00
2012 960.00
2013 960.00
2014 960.00
2015 960.00
2016 960.00
2017 960.00
2018 960.00
2019 960.00
2020 960.00
2021 960.00

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

See also:

Year Value
1990 933.32
2000 933.32
2010 933.32

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 68.24
2000 68.24
2010 68.24

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Land use