Turks and Caicos Islands - Land area (sq. km)

The value for Land area (sq. km) in Turks and Caicos Islands was 950.00 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 950.00 in 2021 and a minimum value of 950.00 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 950.00
1962 950.00
1963 950.00
1964 950.00
1965 950.00
1966 950.00
1967 950.00
1968 950.00
1969 950.00
1970 950.00
1971 950.00
1972 950.00
1973 950.00
1974 950.00
1975 950.00
1976 950.00
1977 950.00
1978 950.00
1979 950.00
1980 950.00
1981 950.00
1982 950.00
1983 950.00
1984 950.00
1985 950.00
1986 950.00
1987 950.00
1988 950.00
1989 950.00
1990 950.00
1991 950.00
1992 950.00
1993 950.00
1994 950.00
1995 950.00
1996 950.00
1997 950.00
1998 950.00
1999 950.00
2000 950.00
2001 950.00
2002 950.00
2003 950.00
2004 950.00
2005 950.00
2006 950.00
2007 950.00
2008 950.00
2009 950.00
2010 950.00
2011 950.00
2012 950.00
2013 950.00
2014 950.00
2015 950.00
2016 950.00
2017 950.00
2018 950.00
2019 950.00
2020 950.00
2021 950.00

Development Relevance: Land area is particularly important for understanding an economy's agricultural capacity and the environmental effects of human activity. Innovations in satellite mapping and computer databases have resulted in more precise measurements of land and water areas. Population, land area, income, and output are basic measures of the size of an economy. They also provide a broad indication of actual and potential resources. Land area is therefore used as one of the major indicator to normalize other indicators.

Limitations and Exceptions: The data are collected by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations through annual questionnaires. The FAO tries to impose standard definitions and reporting methods, but complete consistency across countries and over time is not possible. The data collected from official national sources through the questionnaire are supplemented with information from official secondary data sources. The secondary sources cover official country data from websites of national ministries, national publications and related country data reported by various international organizations.

Statistical Concept and Methodology: Total land area does not include inland water bodies such as major rivers and lakes. Variations from year to year may be due to updated or revised data rather than to change in area.

Aggregation method: Sum

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Land use