New Caledonia vs Western Sahara: Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area over time
- New Caledonia
- Western Sahara
How they compare
Western Sahara currently reports 4.52 1000 ha against 3.66 1000 ha in New Caledonia, a difference of 0.86 1000 ha.
That makes Western Sahara's figure about 1.2 times New Caledonia's.
Across all 24 years both countries report, Western Sahara has been ahead every year.
New Caledonia ranks 165th and Western Sahara ranks 163rd of 223 countries.
Western Sahara has averaged higher in every one of the 3 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | New Caledonia | Western Sahara | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 3.78 1000 ha | 4.4 1000 ha | 0.6167 1000 ha | Western Sahara |
| 2010s | 3.77 1000 ha | 4.48 1000 ha | 0.708 1000 ha | Western Sahara |
| 2020s | 3.69 1000 ha | 4.49 1000 ha | 0.802 1000 ha | Western Sahara |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area, New Caledonia or Western Sahara?
- Western Sahara, at 4.52 1000 ha against 3.66 1000 ha in New Caledonia as of 2024.
- What is the difference in artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area between New Caledonia and Western Sahara?
- 0.86 1000 ha, with Western Sahara ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for New Caledonia and Western Sahara?
- 24 years are reported by both, from 2001 to 2024.
- How do New Caledonia and Western Sahara rank globally for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area?
- New Caledonia ranks 165th and Western Sahara ranks 163rd of 223 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 MODIS. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.
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About this data
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.