Djibouti - Land area

Land area (sq. km)

The value for Land area (sq. km) in Djibouti was 23,180 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 23,180 in 2021 and a minimum value of 23,180 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 23,180
1962 23,180
1963 23,180
1964 23,180
1965 23,180
1966 23,180
1967 23,180
1968 23,180
1969 23,180
1970 23,180
1971 23,180
1972 23,180
1973 23,180
1974 23,180
1975 23,180
1976 23,180
1977 23,180
1978 23,180
1979 23,180
1980 23,180
1981 23,180
1982 23,180
1983 23,180
1984 23,180
1985 23,180
1986 23,180
1987 23,180
1988 23,180
1989 23,180
1990 23,180
1991 23,180
1992 23,180
1993 23,180
1994 23,180
1995 23,180
1996 23,180
1997 23,180
1998 23,180
1999 23,180
2000 23,180
2001 23,180
2002 23,180
2003 23,180
2004 23,180
2005 23,180
2006 23,180
2007 23,180
2008 23,180
2009 23,180
2010 23,180
2011 23,180
2012 23,180
2013 23,180
2014 23,180
2015 23,180
2016 23,180
2017 23,180
2018 23,180
2019 23,180
2020 23,180
2021 23,180

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 21,412
2000 21,412
2010 21,412

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 149.83
2000 149.83
2010 149.83

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Land use