South Asia - Land area

Land area (sq. km)

The value for Land area (sq. km) in South Asia was 4,770,754 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 4,779,833 in 1993 and a minimum value of 4,770,754 in 2018.

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 4,779,833
1962 4,779,833
1963 4,779,833
1964 4,779,833
1965 4,779,833
1966 4,779,833
1967 4,779,833
1968 4,779,833
1969 4,779,833
1970 4,779,833
1971 4,779,833
1972 4,779,833
1973 4,779,833
1974 4,779,833
1975 4,779,833
1976 4,779,833
1977 4,779,833
1978 4,779,833
1979 4,779,833
1980 4,779,833
1981 4,779,833
1982 4,779,833
1983 4,779,833
1984 4,779,833
1985 4,779,833
1986 4,779,833
1987 4,779,833
1988 4,779,833
1989 4,779,833
1990 4,779,833
1991 4,779,833
1992 4,779,833
1993 4,779,833
1994 4,772,910
1995 4,772,910
1996 4,772,910
1997 4,772,910
1998 4,772,910
1999 4,772,910
2000 4,773,260
2001 4,773,260
2002 4,773,260
2003 4,773,260
2004 4,771,577
2005 4,771,577
2006 4,771,577
2007 4,771,577
2008 4,771,577
2009 4,771,577
2010 4,771,577
2011 4,771,577
2012 4,771,577
2013 4,771,577
2014 4,771,577
2015 4,770,760
2016 4,770,787
2017 4,770,787
2018 4,770,754
2019 4,770,754
2020 4,770,754
2021 4,770,754

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 3,917,487
2000 3,917,487
2010 3,917,487

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 273,702
2000 273,702
2010 273,702

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Land use