East Asia & Pacific (excluding high income) | Surface area (sq. km)

Surface area is a country's total area, including areas under inland bodies of water and some coastal waterways. 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. Including areas of former states; for example, the areas of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) are counted in Russian Federationand other successor states.
Publisher
The World Bank
Origin
East Asia & Pacific (excluding high income)
Records
63
Source
East Asia & Pacific (excluding high income) | Surface area (sq. km)
1960
1961 16271420
1962 16271420
1963 16271420
1964 16271420
1965 16271420
1966 16271420
1967 16271420
1968 16271420
1969 16271420
1970 16271420
1971 16271420
1972 16271420
1973 16271420
1974 16271420
1975 16271420
1976 16271420
1977 16269300
1978 16269300
1979 16271340
1980 16271420
1981 16271420
1982 16271420
1983 16271420
1984 16271420
1985 16271420
1986 16271420
1987 16270080
1988 16270090
1989 16270090
1990 16270760
1991 16270790
1992 16270820
1993 16270840
1994 16270840
1995 16270830
1996 16270820
1997 16270820
1998 16270820
1999 16270820
2000 16268940
2001 16268944.2
2002 16268993.2
2003 16269002.7
2004 16269006.5
2005 16270903.8
2006 16270903.4
2007 16270902.8
2008 16270741.8
2009 16270742
2010 16270645
2011 16270648
2012 16270642
2013 16270247
2014 16270518
2015 16273116
2016 16273483
2017 16276627
2018 16276582.2
2019 16276413.77
2020 16276443.519
2021 16276613.77
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East Asia & Pacific (excluding high income) | Surface area (sq. km)

Surface area is a country's total area, including areas under inland bodies of water and some coastal waterways. 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. Including areas of former states; for example, the areas of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) are counted in Russian Federationand other successor states.
Publisher
The World Bank
Origin
East Asia & Pacific (excluding high income)
Records
63
Source