What is the difference in artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area between Bulgaria and China, Taiwan Province of?

7.63 1000 ha, with Bulgaria ahead.

How many years of comparable data are there for Bulgaria and China, Taiwan Province of?

31 years are reported by both, from 1992 to 2022.

Where does this data come from?

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area from CCI_LC. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

Bulgaria vs China, Taiwan Province of: Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area

Bulgaria

175.84 1000 ha

in 2022

China, Taiwan Province of

168.21 1000 ha

in 2022

Bulgaria rank

47th

China, Taiwan Province of rank

50th

Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area over time

Bulgaria
China, Taiwan Province of

How they compare

Bulgaria currently reports 175.84 1000 ha against 168.21 1000 ha in China, Taiwan Province of, a difference of 7.63 1000 ha.

Across all 31 years both countries report, Bulgaria has been ahead every year.

Bulgaria ranks 47th and China, Taiwan Province of ranks 50th of 224 countries.

Bulgaria has averaged higher in every one of the 4 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade	Bulgaria	China, Taiwan Province of	Difference	Ahead
1990s	113.87 1000 ha	51.87 1000 ha	62 1000 ha	Bulgaria
2000s	139.29 1000 ha	79.3 1000 ha	59.99 1000 ha	Bulgaria
2010s	165.12 1000 ha	134.52 1000 ha	30.61 1000 ha	Bulgaria
2020s	174.44 1000 ha	165.99 1000 ha	8.46 1000 ha	Bulgaria

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area, Bulgaria or China, Taiwan Province of?: Bulgaria, at 175.84 1000 ha against 168.21 1000 ha in China, Taiwan Province of as of 2022.
What is the difference in artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area between Bulgaria and China, Taiwan Province of?: 7.63 1000 ha, with Bulgaria ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Bulgaria and China, Taiwan Province of?: 31 years are reported by both, from 1992 to 2022.
How do Bulgaria and China, Taiwan Province of rank globally for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area?: Bulgaria ranks 47th and China, Taiwan Province of ranks 50th of 224 countries.
Where does this data come from?: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area from CCI_LC. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

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Indicator: Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area from CCI_LC
Unit: 1000 ha
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage: 270 places, 8,231 data points, 1992–2022
Last refreshed: 12 August 2026

The FAOSTAT domain on Land Cover data under the Agri-Environmental Indicators section contains land cover information organized by the land cover classes of the international standard system for Environmental and Economic Accounting Central Framework (SEEA CF). The land cover information is compiled from publicly available Global Land Cover (GLC) maps: a) MODIS land cover types based on the Land Cover Classification System, LCCS; b) The European Spatial Agency (ESA) Climate Change Initiative (CCI) annual land cover maps produced by the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL)-Geomatics and now under the European Copernicus Program; c) The annual land cover maps which were produced under the European Copernicus Global Land Service (CGLS) (CGLS land cover, containing discrete land cover categorization), with spatial resolution 100m; and d) the WorldCover maps of the European Space Agency, produced at 10m resolution.