Greenland vs Iceland: Terrestrial barren land — Area from CGLS
Terrestrial barren land — Area from CGLS over time
- Greenland
- Iceland
How they compare
Iceland currently reports 2,239 1000 ha against 2,187 1000 ha in Greenland, a difference of 52 1000 ha.
Across all 5 years both countries report, Iceland has been ahead every year.
Greenland ranks 43rd and Iceland ranks 42nd of 167 countries.
Iceland has averaged higher in every one of the 1 decades both report.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher terrestrial barren land — area from cgls, Greenland or Iceland?
- Iceland, at 2,239 1000 ha against 2,187 1000 ha in Greenland as of 2019.
- What is the difference in terrestrial barren land — area from cgls between Greenland and Iceland?
- 52 1000 ha, with Iceland ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Greenland and Iceland?
- 5 years are reported by both, from 2015 to 2019.
- How do Greenland and Iceland rank globally for terrestrial barren land — area from cgls?
- Greenland ranks 43rd and Iceland ranks 42nd of 167 countries.
- Where does this data come from?
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Terrestrial barren land — 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.