Bulgaria - Land area

Land area (sq. km)

The value for Land area (sq. km) in Bulgaria was 108,560 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 110,630 in 2001 and a minimum value of 108,560 in 2009.

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 110,630
1962 110,630
1963 110,630
1964 110,630
1965 110,630
1966 110,630
1967 110,630
1968 110,630
1969 110,630
1970 110,630
1971 110,630
1972 110,630
1973 110,630
1974 110,630
1975 110,630
1976 110,630
1977 110,630
1978 110,630
1979 110,630
1980 110,630
1981 110,630
1982 110,630
1983 110,630
1984 110,630
1985 110,630
1986 110,630
1987 110,630
1988 110,630
1989 110,630
1990 110,630
1991 110,630
1992 110,630
1993 110,630
1994 110,630
1995 110,630
1996 110,630
1997 110,630
1998 110,630
1999 110,630
2000 110,630
2001 110,630
2002 108,800
2003 108,770
2004 108,760
2005 108,640
2006 108,630
2007 108,610
2008 108,610
2009 108,560
2010 108,560
2011 108,560
2012 108,560
2013 108,560
2014 108,560
2015 108,560
2016 108,560
2017 108,560
2018 108,560
2019 108,560
2020 108,560
2021 108,560

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 103,838
2000 103,838
2010 103,838

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 6,679
2000 6,679
2010 6,679

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Land use