Somalia - Land area

Land area (sq. km)

The value for Land area (sq. km) in Somalia was 627,340 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 627,340 in 2021 and a minimum value of 627,340 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 627,340
1962 627,340
1963 627,340
1964 627,340
1965 627,340
1966 627,340
1967 627,340
1968 627,340
1969 627,340
1970 627,340
1971 627,340
1972 627,340
1973 627,340
1974 627,340
1975 627,340
1976 627,340
1977 627,340
1978 627,340
1979 627,340
1980 627,340
1981 627,340
1982 627,340
1983 627,340
1984 627,340
1985 627,340
1986 627,340
1987 627,340
1988 627,340
1989 627,340
1990 627,340
1991 627,340
1992 627,340
1993 627,340
1994 627,340
1995 627,340
1996 627,340
1997 627,340
1998 627,340
1999 627,340
2000 627,340
2001 627,340
2002 627,340
2003 627,340
2004 627,340
2005 627,340
2006 627,340
2007 627,340
2008 627,340
2009 627,340
2010 627,340
2011 627,340
2012 627,340
2013 627,340
2014 627,340
2015 627,340
2016 627,340
2017 627,340
2018 627,340
2019 627,340
2020 627,340
2021 627,340

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

See also:

Year Value
1990 634,303
2000 634,303
2010 634,303

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

See also:

Year Value
1990 398.72
2000 398.72
2010 398.72

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Land use