Gabon - Land area

Land area (sq. km)

The value for Land area (sq. km) in Gabon was 257,670 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 257,670 in 2021 and a minimum value of 257,670 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 257,670
1962 257,670
1963 257,670
1964 257,670
1965 257,670
1966 257,670
1967 257,670
1968 257,670
1969 257,670
1970 257,670
1971 257,670
1972 257,670
1973 257,670
1974 257,670
1975 257,670
1976 257,670
1977 257,670
1978 257,670
1979 257,670
1980 257,670
1981 257,670
1982 257,670
1983 257,670
1984 257,670
1985 257,670
1986 257,670
1987 257,670
1988 257,670
1989 257,670
1990 257,670
1991 257,670
1992 257,670
1993 257,670
1994 257,670
1995 257,670
1996 257,670
1997 257,670
1998 257,670
1999 257,670
2000 257,670
2001 257,670
2002 257,670
2003 257,670
2004 257,670
2005 257,670
2006 257,670
2007 257,670
2008 257,670
2009 257,670
2010 257,670
2011 257,670
2012 257,670
2013 257,670
2014 257,670
2015 257,670
2016 257,670
2017 257,670
2018 257,670
2019 257,670
2020 257,670
2021 257,670

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 261,382
2000 261,382
2010 261,382

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 836.48
2000 836.48
2010 836.48

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Land use