Turkmenistan - Land area (sq. km)

The value for Land area (sq. km) in Turkmenistan was 469,930 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 469,930 in 2021 and a minimum value of 469,930 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 469,930
1962 469,930
1963 469,930
1964 469,930
1965 469,930
1966 469,930
1967 469,930
1968 469,930
1969 469,930
1970 469,930
1971 469,930
1972 469,930
1973 469,930
1974 469,930
1975 469,930
1976 469,930
1977 469,930
1978 469,930
1979 469,930
1980 469,930
1981 469,930
1982 469,930
1983 469,930
1984 469,930
1985 469,930
1986 469,930
1987 469,930
1988 469,930
1989 469,930
1990 469,930
1991 469,930
1992 469,930
1993 469,930
1994 469,930
1995 469,930
1996 469,930
1997 469,930
1998 469,930
1999 469,930
2000 469,930
2001 469,930
2002 469,930
2003 469,930
2004 469,930
2005 469,930
2006 469,930
2007 469,930
2008 469,930
2009 469,930
2010 469,930
2011 469,930
2012 469,930
2013 469,930
2014 469,930
2015 469,930
2016 469,930
2017 469,930
2018 469,930
2019 469,930
2020 469,930
2021 469,930

Development Relevance: Land 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, land 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 does not include 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