United States - Land area (sq. km)

The value for Land area (sq. km) in United States was 9,147,420 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 9,161,920 in 2007 and a minimum value of 9,147,420 in 2008.

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 9,158,960
1962 9,158,960
1963 9,158,960
1964 9,158,960
1965 9,158,960
1966 9,158,960
1967 9,158,960
1968 9,158,960
1969 9,158,960
1970 9,158,960
1971 9,158,960
1972 9,158,960
1973 9,158,960
1974 9,158,960
1975 9,158,960
1976 9,158,960
1977 9,158,960
1978 9,158,960
1979 9,158,960
1980 9,158,960
1981 9,158,960
1982 9,158,960
1983 9,158,960
1984 9,158,960
1985 9,158,960
1986 9,158,960
1987 9,158,960
1988 9,158,960
1989 9,158,960
1990 9,158,960
1991 9,158,960
1992 9,158,960
1993 9,158,960
1994 9,158,960
1995 9,158,960
1996 9,158,960
1997 9,158,960
1998 9,158,960
1999 9,158,960
2000 9,161,920
2001 9,161,920
2002 9,161,920
2003 9,161,920
2004 9,161,920
2005 9,161,920
2006 9,161,920
2007 9,161,920
2008 9,147,420
2009 9,147,420
2010 9,147,420
2011 9,147,420
2012 9,147,420
2013 9,147,420
2014 9,147,420
2015 9,147,420
2016 9,147,420
2017 9,147,420
2018 9,147,420
2019 9,147,420
2020 9,147,420
2021 9,147,420

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