Northern Mariana Islands - Land area

Land area (sq. km)

The value for Land area (sq. km) in Northern Mariana Islands was 460.00 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 30 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 460.00 in 2021 and a minimum value of 460.00 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 460.00
1992 460.00
1993 460.00
1994 460.00
1995 460.00
1996 460.00
1997 460.00
1998 460.00
1999 460.00
2000 460.00
2001 460.00
2002 460.00
2003 460.00
2004 460.00
2005 460.00
2006 460.00
2007 460.00
2008 460.00
2009 460.00
2010 460.00
2011 460.00
2012 460.00
2013 460.00
2014 460.00
2015 460.00
2016 460.00
2017 460.00
2018 460.00
2019 460.00
2020 460.00
2021 460.00

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 379.39
2000 379.39
2010 379.39

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 108.51
2000 108.51
2010 108.51

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Land use