Iceland vs Norway: Permanent snow and glaciers — Area from CGLS
Permanent snow and glaciers — Area from CGLS over time
- Iceland
- Norway
How they compare
Norway currently reports 1,279 1000 ha against 1,132 1000 ha in Iceland, a difference of 147 1000 ha.
That makes Norway's figure about 1.1 times Iceland's.
Across all 5 years both countries report, Norway has been ahead every year.
Iceland ranks 8th and Norway ranks 7th of 42 countries.
Norway has averaged higher in every one of the 1 decades both report.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher permanent snow and glaciers — area from cgls, Iceland or Norway?
- Norway, at 1,279 1000 ha against 1,132 1000 ha in Iceland as of 2019.
- What is the difference in permanent snow and glaciers — area from cgls between Iceland and Norway?
- 147 1000 ha, with Norway ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Iceland and Norway?
- 5 years are reported by both, from 2015 to 2019.
- How do Iceland and Norway rank globally for permanent snow and glaciers — area from cgls?
- Iceland ranks 8th and Norway ranks 7th of 42 countries.
- Where does this data come from?
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Permanent snow and glaciers — Area from CGLS. 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.