Italy - Land area

Land area (sq. km)

The value for Land area (sq. km) in Italy was 297,730 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 297,730 in 2021 and a minimum value of 294,110 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 294,110
1962 294,110
1963 294,110
1964 294,110
1965 294,110
1966 294,110
1967 294,110
1968 294,110
1969 294,110
1970 294,110
1971 294,110
1972 294,110
1973 294,110
1974 294,110
1975 294,110
1976 294,110
1977 294,110
1978 294,110
1979 294,110
1980 294,110
1981 294,110
1982 294,110
1983 294,110
1984 294,110
1985 294,110
1986 294,110
1987 294,110
1988 294,110
1989 294,110
1990 294,110
1991 294,110
1992 294,110
1993 294,110
1994 294,110
1995 294,110
1996 294,110
1997 294,110
1998 294,110
1999 294,110
2000 294,110
2001 294,110
2002 294,110
2003 294,140
2004 294,140
2005 294,140
2006 294,140
2007 294,140
2008 294,140
2009 294,140
2010 294,140
2011 294,140
2012 294,140
2013 294,140
2014 294,140
2015 294,140
2016 294,140
2017 294,140
2018 297,730
2019 297,730
2020 297,730
2021 297,730

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 223,236
2000 223,236
2010 223,236

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 73,541
2000 73,541
2010 73,541

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Land use