Permanent snow and glaciers — Area from CGLS in China
China: Permanent snow and glaciers — Area from CGLS was 6,310 1000 ha in 2019. ▲ Rising
Permanent snow and glaciers — Area from CGLS in China, 2015–2019
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for permanent snow and glaciers — area from cgls in China is 6,310 1000 ha, measured in 2019. That is the highest value across all 5 years on record.
The figure is up 2.1% on the previous year and up 7.1% over five years.
China ranks 3rd of 52 countries on this measure, in the top 10%.
Countries ranked near China
- 1 Greenland 152,405 1000 ha compare
- 2 Canada 15,284 1000 ha compare
- 3 China, mainland 6,310 1000 ha compare
- 5 Chile 2,795 1000 ha compare
- 6 Russian Federation 2,697 1000 ha compare
More environment data for China
- Land area equipped for irrigation — Share in Cropland 57.9 % (2024)
- Land area equipped for irrigation — Area 74,915 1000 ha (2024)
- Inland waters — Area 17,531 1000 ha (2024)
- Permanent meadows and pastures — Share in Land area 27.93 % (2024)
- Permanent meadows and pastures — Share in Agricultural land 67.04 % (2024)
- Permanent meadows and pastures — Area 263,216 1000 ha (2024)
- Permanent crops — Share in Agricultural land 5.18 % (2024)
- Permanent crops — Area 20,327 1000 ha (2024)
- Arable land — Share in Agricultural land 27.78 % (2024)
- Arable land — Area 109,061 1000 ha (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is permanent snow and glaciers — area from cgls in China?
- Permanent snow and glaciers — area from cgls in China was 6,310 1000 ha in 2019, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest permanent snow and glaciers — area from cgls recorded in China?
- The highest recorded value was 6,310 1000 ha in 2019.
- What is the lowest permanent snow and glaciers — area from cgls recorded in China?
- The lowest recorded value was 5,890 1000 ha in 2015.
- How does China rank for permanent snow and glaciers — area from cgls?
- China ranks 3rd out of 52 countries with data for 2019.
- Where does this China data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Permanent snow and glaciers — 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.