Viet Nam | 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
Viet Nam
Records
63
Source
Viet Nam | Surface area (sq. km)
1960
1961 331690
1962 331690
1963 331690
1964 331690
1965 331690
1966 331690
1967 331690
1968 331690
1969 331690
1970 331690
1971 331690
1972 331690
1973 331690
1974 331690
1975 331690
1976 331690
1977 329570
1978 329570
1979 331610
1980 331690
1981 331690
1982 331690
1983 331690
1984 331690
1985 331690
1986 331690
1987 330350
1988 330360
1989 330360
1990 331030
1991 331060
1992 331090
1993 331110
1994 331110
1995 331110
1996 331110
1997 331110
1998 331110
1999 331110
2000 329240
2001 329250
2002 329300
2003 329310
2004 329314
2005 331212
2006 331212
2007 331212
2008 331051
2009 331051
2010 330954
2011 330957
2012 330951
2013 330960
2014 331230
2015 331230
2016 331230
2017 331230
2018 331240
2019 331310
2020 331340
2021 331340
2022
Viet Nam | 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
Viet Nam
Records
63
Source