San Marino - Surface area (sq. km)

The value for Surface area (sq. km) in San Marino was 60.00 as of 2018. As the graph below shows, over the past 57 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 60.00 in 2018 and a minimum value of 60.00 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 60.00
1962 60.00
1963 60.00
1964 60.00
1965 60.00
1966 60.00
1967 60.00
1968 60.00
1969 60.00
1970 60.00
1971 60.00
1972 60.00
1973 60.00
1974 60.00
1975 60.00
1976 60.00
1977 60.00
1978 60.00
1979 60.00
1980 60.00
1981 60.00
1982 60.00
1983 60.00
1984 60.00
1985 60.00
1986 60.00
1987 60.00
1988 60.00
1989 60.00
1990 60.00
1991 60.00
1992 60.00
1993 60.00
1994 60.00
1995 60.00
1996 60.00
1997 60.00
1998 60.00
1999 60.00
2000 60.00
2001 60.00
2002 60.00
2003 60.00
2004 60.00
2005 60.00
2006 60.00
2007 60.00
2008 60.00
2009 60.00
2010 60.00
2011 60.00
2012 60.00
2013 60.00
2014 60.00
2015 60.00
2016 60.00
2017 60.00
2018 60.00

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