St. Martin (French part) - Land area (sq. km)

The value for Land area (sq. km) in St. Martin (French part) was 50.00 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 54.40 in 2010 and a minimum value of 50.00 in 2011.

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 54.40
1962 54.40
1963 54.40
1964 54.40
1965 54.40
1966 54.40
1967 54.40
1968 54.40
1969 54.40
1970 54.40
1971 54.40
1972 54.40
1973 54.40
1974 54.40
1975 54.40
1976 54.40
1977 54.40
1978 54.40
1979 54.40
1980 54.40
1981 54.40
1982 54.40
1983 54.40
1984 54.40
1985 54.40
1986 54.40
1987 54.40
1988 54.40
1989 54.40
1990 54.40
1991 54.40
1992 54.40
1993 54.40
1994 54.40
1995 54.40
1996 54.40
1997 54.40
1998 54.40
1999 54.40
2000 54.40
2001 54.40
2002 54.40
2003 54.40
2004 54.40
2005 54.40
2006 54.40
2007 54.40
2008 54.40
2009 54.40
2010 54.40
2011 50.00
2012 50.00
2013 50.00
2014 50.00
2015 50.00
2016 50.00
2017 50.00
2018 50.00
2019 50.00
2020 50.00
2021 50.00

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