Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Türkiye

Türkiye: Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area was 1,237 1000 ha in 2019. ▬ Flat

Latest (2019)
1,237 1000 ha
Change on year
up 0.4%
Rank
19th
of 39 regions
All-time high
1,237 1000 ha
in 2019
All-time low
1,221 1000 ha
in 2015
Years of data
5
2015–2019

Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Türkiye, 2015–2019

02505007501.0k1.2k2015201720192015: 1.2k 1000 ha2016: 1.2k 1000 ha2017: 1.2k 1000 ha2018: 1.2k 1000 ha2019: 1.2k 1000 ha

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 Türkiye stood at 1,237 1000 ha. That is the highest value across all 5 years on record.

That represents a change of up 0.4% on the previous year and up 1.3% over five years.

Türkiye ranks 19th of 39 regions on this measure, in the middle of the range.

Countries ranked near Türkiye

  1. 16 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 1,432 1000 ha compare
  2. 17 Australia and New Zealand 1,411 1000 ha compare
  3. 18 Poland 1,387 1000 ha compare
  4. 19 Spain 1,279 1000 ha compare
  5. 20 Australia 1,237 1000 ha compare
  6. 21 South Africa 1,082 1000 ha compare
  7. 22 Pakistan 930.49 1000 ha compare

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Frequently asked questions

What is artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Türkiye?
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Türkiye was 1,237 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 Türkiye?
The highest recorded value was 1,237 1000 ha in 2019.
What is the lowest artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area recorded in Türkiye?
The lowest recorded value was 1,221 1000 ha in 2015.
How does Türkiye rank for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area?
Türkiye ranks 19th out of 39 regions with data for 2019.
Where does this Türkiye 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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Indicator
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area from CGLS
Unit
1000 ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
241 places, 1,205 data points, 2015–2019
Last refreshed

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.