Greenland vs Tonga: Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area

Greenland
0.07 1000 ha
in 2022
Tonga
0.06 1000 ha
in 2022
Greenland rank
201st
Tonga rank
203rd

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

  • Greenland
  • Tonga
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How they compare

Greenland currently reports 0.07 1000 ha against 0.06 1000 ha in Tonga, a difference of 0.01 1000 ha.

That makes Greenland's figure about 1.2 times Tonga's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 31 shared years of data; in 1992 it was Tonga ahead.

Greenland ranks 201st and Tonga ranks 203rd of 224 countries.

Across the 4 decades both report, Greenland averaged higher in 3 and Tonga in 1.

Head to head by decade

Decade Greenland Tonga Difference Ahead
1990s 0.0575 1000 ha 0.06 1000 ha 0.0025 1000 ha Tonga
2000s 0.07 1000 ha 0.06 1000 ha 0.01 1000 ha Greenland
2010s 0.063 1000 ha 0.06 1000 ha 0.003 1000 ha Greenland
2020s 0.07 1000 ha 0.06 1000 ha 0.01 1000 ha Greenland

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area, Greenland or Tonga?
Greenland, at 0.07 1000 ha against 0.06 1000 ha in Tonga as of 2022.
What is the difference in artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area between Greenland and Tonga?
0.01 1000 ha, with Greenland ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Greenland and Tonga?
31 years are reported by both, from 1992 to 2022.
How do Greenland and Tonga rank globally for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area?
Greenland ranks 201st and Tonga ranks 203rd 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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About this data

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

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.