Norway - Land area (sq. km)

The value for Land area (sq. km) in Norway was 365,108 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 365,244 in 2012 and a minimum value of 365,108 in 2018.

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 365,244
1962 365,244
1963 365,244
1964 365,244
1965 365,244
1966 365,244
1967 365,244
1968 365,244
1969 365,244
1970 365,244
1971 365,244
1972 365,244
1973 365,244
1974 365,244
1975 365,244
1976 365,244
1977 365,244
1978 365,244
1979 365,244
1980 365,244
1981 365,244
1982 365,244
1983 365,244
1984 365,244
1985 365,244
1986 365,244
1987 365,244
1988 365,244
1989 365,244
1990 365,244
1991 365,244
1992 365,244
1993 365,244
1994 365,244
1995 365,244
1996 365,244
1997 365,244
1998 365,244
1999 365,244
2000 365,244
2001 365,244
2002 365,244
2003 365,244
2004 365,244
2005 365,244
2006 365,244
2007 365,244
2008 365,244
2009 365,244
2010 365,244
2011 365,244
2012 365,244
2013 365,123
2014 365,108
2015 365,191
2016 365,146
2017 365,123
2018 365,108
2019 365,108
2020 365,108
2021 365,108

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