Trinidad and Tobago - Land area

Land area (sq. km)

The value for Land area (sq. km) in Trinidad and Tobago was 5,130 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 5,130 in 2021 and a minimum value of 5,130 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 5,130
1962 5,130
1963 5,130
1964 5,130
1965 5,130
1966 5,130
1967 5,130
1968 5,130
1969 5,130
1970 5,130
1971 5,130
1972 5,130
1973 5,130
1974 5,130
1975 5,130
1976 5,130
1977 5,130
1978 5,130
1979 5,130
1980 5,130
1981 5,130
1982 5,130
1983 5,130
1984 5,130
1985 5,130
1986 5,130
1987 5,130
1988 5,130
1989 5,130
1990 5,130
1991 5,130
1992 5,130
1993 5,130
1994 5,130
1995 5,130
1996 5,130
1997 5,130
1998 5,130
1999 5,130
2000 5,130
2001 5,130
2002 5,130
2003 5,130
2004 5,130
2005 5,130
2006 5,130
2007 5,130
2008 5,130
2009 5,130
2010 5,130
2011 5,130
2012 5,130
2013 5,130
2014 5,130
2015 5,130
2016 5,130
2017 5,130
2018 5,130
2019 5,130
2020 5,130
2021 5,130

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 2,879
2000 2,879
2010 2,879

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 2,287
2000 2,287
2010 2,287

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Land use