Europe & Central Asia | 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
Europe & Central Asia
Records
63
Source
Europe & Central Asia | Surface area (sq. km)
1960
28381885.137 1961
28381885.137 1962
28381885.137 1963
28381885.137 1964
28381885.137 1965
28381885.137 1966
28381885.137 1967
28381885.137 1968
28381885.137 1969
28381885.137 1970
28381885.137 1971
28381885.137 1972
28381885.137 1973
28381885.137 1974
28381885.137 1975
28381885.137 1976
28381885.137 1977
28381885.137 1978
28381885.837 1979
28381885.837 1980
28381885.837 1981
28381885.837 1982
28381885.837 1983
28381885.837 1984
28381885.837 1985
28381885.837 1986
28381885.837 1987
28381885.837 1988
28381885.837 1989
28381885.837 1990
28381885.837 1991
28381885.837 1992
28381975.837 1993
28381985.837 1994
28382015.837 1995
28382095.837 1996
28450835.837 1997
28450765.837 1998
28450765.837 1999
28447208.837 2000
28447228.837 2001
28447538.837 2002
28447942.837 2003
28447668.837 2004
28447688.837 2005
28447978.837 2006
28448031.73 2007
28448046.73 2008
28448180.73 2009
28448427.73 2010
28448436.73 2011
28448806.73 2012
28802066.45 2013
28800918.74 2014
28805748.29 2015
28805943.51 2016
28805771.74 2017
28805811.799 2018
28806227.516 2019
28813751.765 2020
28813792.008 2021
2022
Europe & Central Asia | 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
Europe & Central Asia
Records
63
Source