Eritrea - Land area

Land area (sq. km)

The value for Land area (sq. km) in Eritrea was 101,000 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 101,000 in 2021 and a minimum value of 101,000 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 101,000
1962 101,000
1963 101,000
1964 101,000
1965 101,000
1966 101,000
1967 101,000
1968 101,000
1969 101,000
1970 101,000
1971 101,000
1972 101,000
1973 101,000
1974 101,000
1975 101,000
1976 101,000
1977 101,000
1978 101,000
1979 101,000
1980 101,000
1981 101,000
1982 101,000
1983 101,000
1984 101,000
1985 101,000
1986 101,000
1987 101,000
1988 101,000
1989 101,000
1990 101,000
1991 101,000
1992 101,000
1993 101,000
1994 101,000
1995 101,000
1996 101,000
1997 101,000
1998 101,000
1999 101,000
2000 101,000
2001 101,000
2002 101,000
2003 101,000
2004 101,000
2005 101,000
2006 101,000
2007 101,000
2008 101,000
2009 101,000
2010 101,000
2011 101,000
2012 101,000
2013 101,000
2014 101,000
2015 101,000
2016 101,000
2017 101,000
2018 101,000
2019 101,000
2020 101,000
2021 101,000

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 122,240
2000 122,240
2010 122,240

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 366.61
2000 366.61
2010 366.61

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Land use