Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Republic of Korea
Republic of Korea: Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area was 790.4 1000 ha in 2019. ▬ Flat
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Republic of Korea, 2015–2019
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.
Analysis
In 2019, artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Republic of Korea stood at 790.4 1000 ha. That is the highest value across all 5 years on record.
That represents a change of up 0.2% on the previous year and up 1.5% over five years.
Republic of Korea ranks 26th of 197 countries on this measure, in the top quarter.
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Republic of Korea, year by year
| Year | 1000 ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 778.67 1000 ha | — |
| 2016 | 781.15 1000 ha | +0.3% |
| 2017 | 785.7 1000 ha | +0.6% |
| 2018 | 788.91 1000 ha | +0.4% |
| 2019 | 790.4 1000 ha | +0.2% |
Countries ranked near Republic of Korea
- 23 Argentina 877.16 1000 ha compare
- 24 Uzbekistan 862.04 1000 ha compare
- 25 Romania 810.34 1000 ha compare
- 26 Cabo Verde 4.6 1000 ha compare
- 27 Bangladesh 775.36 1000 ha compare
- 28 Malaysia 704.61 1000 ha compare
- 29 Saudi Arabia 617.46 1000 ha compare
More environment data for Republic of Korea
- Standard Deviation, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
- Temperature change 1.9 °C (2025)
- Standard Deviation 0.504 °C (2025)
- Agricultural land — Value of agricultural production (Int. $) per Area 9,980 USD_PPP/ha (2024)
- Cropland — Area per capita 0.03 ha/cap (2024)
- Cropland — Share in Land area 15.42 % (2024)
- Cropland — Share in Agricultural land 96.41 % (2024)
- Cropland — Area 1,505 1000 ha (2024)
- Agriculture — Area 1,561 1000 ha (2024)
- Country area — Area 10,046 1000 ha (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Republic of Korea?
- Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Republic of Korea was 790.4 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 Republic of Korea?
- The highest recorded value was 790.4 1000 ha in 2019.
- What is the lowest artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area recorded in Republic of Korea?
- The lowest recorded value was 778.67 1000 ha in 2015.
- How does Republic of Korea rank for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area?
- Republic of Korea ranks 26th out of 197 countries with data for 2019.
- Where does this Republic of Korea 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.