Madagascar - Land area

Land area (sq. km)

The value for Land area (sq. km) in Madagascar was 581,800 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 581,800 in 2021 and a minimum value of 581,540 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 581,540
1962 581,540
1963 581,540
1964 581,540
1965 581,540
1966 581,540
1967 581,540
1968 581,540
1969 581,540
1970 581,540
1971 581,540
1972 581,540
1973 581,540
1974 581,540
1975 581,540
1976 581,540
1977 581,540
1978 581,540
1979 581,540
1980 581,540
1981 581,540
1982 581,540
1983 581,540
1984 581,540
1985 581,540
1986 581,540
1987 581,540
1988 581,540
1989 581,540
1990 581,540
1991 581,540
1992 581,540
1993 581,540
1994 581,540
1995 581,540
1996 581,540
1997 581,540
1998 581,540
1999 581,540
2000 581,540
2001 581,540
2002 581,540
2003 581,540
2004 581,540
2005 581,540
2006 581,540
2007 581,540
2008 581,540
2009 581,540
2010 581,540
2011 581,795
2012 581,795
2013 581,800
2014 581,800
2015 581,800
2016 581,800
2017 581,800
2018 581,800
2019 581,800
2020 581,800
2021 581,800

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 587,833
2000 587,833
2010 587,833

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 2,272
2000 2,272
2010 2,272

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Land use