Philippines - Land area

Land area (sq. km)

The value for Land area (sq. km) in Philippines was 298,170 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 298,260 in 1972 and a minimum value of 298,170 in 1975.

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 298,260
1962 298,260
1963 298,260
1964 298,260
1965 298,260
1966 298,260
1967 298,260
1968 298,260
1969 298,260
1970 298,260
1971 298,260
1972 298,260
1973 298,230
1974 298,190
1975 298,170
1976 298,170
1977 298,170
1978 298,170
1979 298,170
1980 298,170
1981 298,170
1982 298,170
1983 298,170
1984 298,170
1985 298,170
1986 298,170
1987 298,170
1988 298,170
1989 298,170
1990 298,170
1991 298,170
1992 298,170
1993 298,170
1994 298,170
1995 298,170
1996 298,170
1997 298,170
1998 298,170
1999 298,170
2000 298,170
2001 298,170
2002 298,170
2003 298,170
2004 298,170
2005 298,170
2006 298,170
2007 298,170
2008 298,170
2009 298,170
2010 298,170
2011 298,170
2012 298,170
2013 298,170
2014 298,170
2015 298,170
2016 298,170
2017 298,170
2018 298,170
2019 298,170
2020 298,170
2021 298,170

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 282,759
2000 282,759
2010 282,759

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 10,817
2000 10,817
2010 10,817

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Land use