Maldives - Land area

Land area (sq. km)

The value for Land area (sq. km) in Maldives was 300.00 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 300.00 in 2021 and a minimum value of 300.00 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 300.00
1962 300.00
1963 300.00
1964 300.00
1965 300.00
1966 300.00
1967 300.00
1968 300.00
1969 300.00
1970 300.00
1971 300.00
1972 300.00
1973 300.00
1974 300.00
1975 300.00
1976 300.00
1977 300.00
1978 300.00
1979 300.00
1980 300.00
1981 300.00
1982 300.00
1983 300.00
1984 300.00
1985 300.00
1986 300.00
1987 300.00
1988 300.00
1989 300.00
1990 300.00
1991 300.00
1992 300.00
1993 300.00
1994 300.00
1995 300.00
1996 300.00
1997 300.00
1998 300.00
1999 300.00
2000 300.00
2001 300.00
2002 300.00
2003 300.00
2004 300.00
2005 300.00
2006 300.00
2007 300.00
2008 300.00
2009 300.00
2010 300.00
2011 300.00
2012 300.00
2013 300.00
2014 300.00
2015 300.00
2016 300.00
2017 300.00
2018 300.00
2019 300.00
2020 300.00
2021 300.00

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 291.78
2000 291.78
2010 291.78

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 0.000
2000 0.000
2010 0.000

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Land use