Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in China, mainland
China, mainland: Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area was 24,878 1000 ha in 2019. ▬ Flat
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in China, mainland, 2015–2019
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.
Analysis
China, mainland recorded 24,878 1000 ha for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in 2019. That is the highest value across all 5 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 0.2% on the previous year and up 1.2% over five years.
That places China, mainland 2nd out of 195 countries with data for 2019, putting it in the top 10%.
Countries ranked near China, mainland
- 1 China, People's Republic of 25,312 1000 ha compare
- 3 India 6,736 1000 ha compare
- 4 Russian Federation 5,415 1000 ha compare
- 5 Japan 3,912 1000 ha compare
More environment data for China, mainland
- Standard Deviation, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
- Standard Deviation 0.279 °C (2025)
- Temperature change 1.92 °C (2025)
- Cropland — Area 128,608 1000 ha (2024)
- Cropland — Area per capita 0.09 ha/cap (2024)
- Cropland — Share in Agricultural land 32.82 % (2024)
- Cropland — Share in Land area 13.7 % (2024)
- Arable land — Area 108,466 1000 ha (2024)
- Arable land — Share in Agricultural land 27.68 % (2024)
- Permanent crops — Area 20,142 1000 ha (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in China, mainland?
- Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in China, mainland was 24,878 1000 ha in 2019, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area recorded in China, mainland?
- The highest recorded value was 24,878 1000 ha in 2019.
- What is the lowest artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area recorded in China, mainland?
- The lowest recorded value was 24,589 1000 ha in 2015.
- How does China, mainland rank for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area?
- China, mainland ranks 2nd out of 195 countries with data for 2019.
- Where does this China, mainland data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area from CGLS. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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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.