Malawi - Land area

Land area (sq. km)

The value for Land area (sq. km) in Malawi was 94,280 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 94,280 in 2021 and a minimum value of 94,280 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 94,280
1962 94,280
1963 94,280
1964 94,280
1965 94,280
1966 94,280
1967 94,280
1968 94,280
1969 94,280
1970 94,280
1971 94,280
1972 94,280
1973 94,280
1974 94,280
1975 94,280
1976 94,280
1977 94,280
1978 94,280
1979 94,280
1980 94,280
1981 94,280
1982 94,280
1983 94,280
1984 94,280
1985 94,280
1986 94,280
1987 94,280
1988 94,280
1989 94,280
1990 94,280
1991 94,280
1992 94,280
1993 94,280
1994 94,280
1995 94,280
1996 94,280
1997 94,280
1998 94,280
1999 94,280
2000 94,280
2001 94,280
2002 94,280
2003 94,280
2004 94,280
2005 94,280
2006 94,280
2007 94,280
2008 94,280
2009 94,280
2010 94,280
2011 94,280
2012 94,280
2013 94,280
2014 94,280
2015 94,280
2016 94,280
2017 94,280
2018 94,280
2019 94,280
2020 94,280
2021 94,280

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 92,909
2000 92,909
2010 92,909

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 1,815
2000 1,815
2010 1,815

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Land use