Romania - Surface area (sq. km)

The value for Surface area (sq. km) in Romania was 238,400 as of 2018. As the graph below shows, over the past 57 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 238,400 in 2018 and a minimum value of 238,390 in 1961.

Definition: Surface area is a country's total area, including areas under inland bodies of water and some coastal waterways.

Source: Food and Agriculture Organization, electronic files and web site.

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Year Value
1961 238,390
1962 238,390
1963 238,390
1964 238,390
1965 238,390
1966 238,390
1967 238,390
1968 238,390
1969 238,390
1970 238,390
1971 238,390
1972 238,390
1973 238,390
1974 238,390
1975 238,390
1976 238,390
1977 238,390
1978 238,390
1979 238,390
1980 238,390
1981 238,390
1982 238,390
1983 238,390
1984 238,390
1985 238,390
1986 238,390
1987 238,390
1988 238,390
1989 238,390
1990 238,390
1991 238,390
1992 238,390
1993 238,390
1994 238,390
1995 238,390
1996 238,390
1997 238,390
1998 238,390
1999 238,390
2000 238,390
2001 238,390
2002 238,390
2003 238,390
2004 238,390
2005 238,390
2006 238,390
2007 238,390
2008 238,390
2009 238,390
2010 238,390
2011 238,390
2012 238,390
2013 238,400
2014 238,400
2015 238,400
2016 238,400
2017 238,400
2018 238,400

Development Relevance: Total surface 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, surface 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 includes 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