Land Area

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: land-area-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

Every column in the newest file of Land Area: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.

Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2024	Distinct	Empty	Spread
CountrycountryName	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	221	0
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	221	0
Land area (sq. km)land_areaHeadline	The headline figure: Land area (sq. km).	Number · up to 14 decimals	0Vatican City16,376,870Russiamiddle 87,589	219	0

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.

The newest 12 of 64 years.

Not in this dataset · 3 places this site covers

FAO gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

KosovoNorthern CyprusSomaliland

1. 1 · Publisher

   Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

   fao.org

2. 2 · Their file

   FAOSTAT Land Use: land area, 2024

   Inputs_LandUse_E_All_Data_(Normalized).zip

3. 3 · Read by this site

   September 10, 2026

   Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

4. 4 · Stored as

   64 files, one per year

   Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as land-area-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

5. 5 · Used on

   Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

   /statistics/land-area

From FAOSTAT's Land Use domain, read from the FAO's own bulk download and converted from 1000 hectares to square kilometres. The World Bank serves the same series but its copy has drifted — 26 countries differ in 2022.