Singapore - Land area

Land area (sq. km)

The value for Land area (sq. km) in Singapore was 709.00 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 709.00 in 2021 and a minimum value of 670.00 in 1961.

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 670.00
1962 670.00
1963 670.00
1964 670.00
1965 670.00
1966 670.00
1967 670.00
1968 670.00
1969 670.00
1970 670.00
1971 670.00
1972 670.00
1973 670.00
1974 670.00
1975 670.00
1976 670.00
1977 670.00
1978 670.00
1979 670.00
1980 670.00
1981 670.00
1982 670.00
1983 670.00
1984 670.00
1985 670.00
1986 670.00
1987 670.00
1988 670.00
1989 670.00
1990 670.00
1991 670.00
1992 670.00
1993 670.00
1994 670.00
1995 670.00
1996 670.00
1997 670.00
1998 670.00
1999 670.00
2000 670.00
2001 670.00
2002 675.00
2003 687.00
2004 689.00
2005 689.00
2006 694.00
2007 695.00
2008 700.00
2009 700.00
2010 702.00
2011 704.00
2012 706.00
2013 707.00
2014 709.00
2015 709.00
2016 709.00
2017 709.00
2018 709.00
2019 709.00
2020 709.00
2021 709.00

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 103.60
2000 103.60
2010 103.60

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 565.56
2000 565.56
2010 565.56

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Land use