Qatar - Land area

Land area (sq. km)

The value for Land area (sq. km) in Qatar was 11,490 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 11,610 in 2013 and a minimum value of 11,490 in 2014.

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 11,610
1962 11,610
1963 11,610
1964 11,610
1965 11,610
1966 11,610
1967 11,610
1968 11,610
1969 11,610
1970 11,610
1971 11,610
1972 11,610
1973 11,610
1974 11,610
1975 11,610
1976 11,610
1977 11,610
1978 11,610
1979 11,610
1980 11,610
1981 11,610
1982 11,610
1983 11,610
1984 11,610
1985 11,610
1986 11,610
1987 11,610
1988 11,610
1989 11,610
1990 11,610
1991 11,610
1992 11,610
1993 11,610
1994 11,610
1995 11,610
1996 11,610
1997 11,610
1998 11,610
1999 11,610
2000 11,610
2001 11,610
2002 11,610
2003 11,610
2004 11,610
2005 11,610
2006 11,610
2007 11,610
2008 11,610
2009 11,610
2010 11,610
2011 11,610
2012 11,610
2013 11,610
2014 11,490
2015 11,490
2016 11,490
2017 11,490
2018 11,490
2019 11,490
2020 11,490
2021 11,490

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 9,779
2000 9,779
2010 9,779

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 1,495
2000 1,495
2010 1,495

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Land use