Marshall Islands - Land area

Land area (sq. km)

The value for Land area (sq. km) in Marshall Islands was 180.00 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 30 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 180.00 in 2021 and a minimum value of 180.00 in 1991.

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
1991 180.00
1992 180.00
1993 180.00
1994 180.00
1995 180.00
1996 180.00
1997 180.00
1998 180.00
1999 180.00
2000 180.00
2001 180.00
2002 180.00
2003 180.00
2004 180.00
2005 180.00
2006 180.00
2007 180.00
2008 180.00
2009 180.00
2010 180.00
2011 180.00
2012 180.00
2013 180.00
2014 180.00
2015 180.00
2016 180.00
2017 180.00
2018 180.00
2019 180.00
2020 180.00
2021 180.00

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 284.83
2000 284.83
2010 284.83

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