Morocco - Land area (sq. km)

The value for Land area (sq. km) in Morocco was 446,300 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 446,340 in 1972 and a minimum value of 446,300 in 1973.

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 446,340
1962 446,340
1963 446,340
1964 446,340
1965 446,340
1966 446,340
1967 446,340
1968 446,340
1969 446,340
1970 446,340
1971 446,340
1972 446,340
1973 446,300
1974 446,300
1975 446,300
1976 446,300
1977 446,300
1978 446,300
1979 446,300
1980 446,300
1981 446,300
1982 446,300
1983 446,300
1984 446,300
1985 446,300
1986 446,300
1987 446,300
1988 446,300
1989 446,300
1990 446,300
1991 446,300
1992 446,300
1993 446,300
1994 446,300
1995 446,300
1996 446,300
1997 446,300
1998 446,300
1999 446,300
2000 446,300
2001 446,300
2002 446,300
2003 446,300
2004 446,300
2005 446,300
2006 446,300
2007 446,300
2008 446,300
2009 446,300
2010 446,300
2011 446,300
2012 446,300
2013 446,300
2014 446,300
2015 446,300
2016 446,300
2017 446,300
2018 446,300
2019 446,300
2020 446,300
2021 446,300

Development Relevance: Land area is particularly important for understanding an economy's agricultural capacity and the environmental effects of human activity. Innovations in satellite mapping and computer databases have resulted in more precise measurements of land and water areas. Population, land area, income, and output are basic measures of the size of an economy. They also provide a broad indication of actual and potential resources. Land area is therefore used as one of the major indicator to normalize other indicators.

Limitations and Exceptions: The data are collected by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations through annual questionnaires. The FAO tries to impose standard definitions and reporting methods, but complete consistency across countries and over time is not possible. The data collected from official national sources through the questionnaire are supplemented with information from official secondary data sources. The secondary sources cover official country data from websites of national ministries, national publications and related country data reported by various international organizations.

Statistical Concept and Methodology: Total land area does not include inland water bodies such as major rivers and lakes. Variations from year to year may be due to updated or revised data rather than to change in area.

Aggregation method: Sum

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Land use