Rural land area sq km

Rural land area (sq. km). Rural land area in square kilometers, derived from urban extent grids which distinguish urban and rural areas based on a combination of population counts (persons), settlement points, and the presence of Nighttime Lights. Areas are defined as urban where contiguous lighted cells from the Nighttime Lights or approximated urban extents based on buffered settlement points for which the total population is greater than 5,000 persons.Source:

#	Country	Rural land area (sq. km)Rural land area (sq. km)	Year
1	Russia	16,305,829.27	2010
2	Canada	9,084,045.00	2010
3	China	8,868,577.00	2010
4	United States	8,549,545.51	2010
5	Brazil	8,241,430.00	2010
6	Australia	7,641,564.50	2010
7	India	2,980,489.25	2010
8	Argentina	2,690,269.50	2010
9	Sudan	2,489,483.50	2010
10	Algeria	2,285,675.75	2010
11	Democratic Republic Of Congo	2,278,811.75	2010
12	Saudi Arabia	1,912,311.88	2010
13	Indonesia	1,838,682.63	2010
14	Mexico	1,831,423.50	2010
15	Libya	1,606,874.75	2010
16	Iran	1,545,056.13	2010
17	Peru	1,256,339.88	2010
18	Angola	1,248,198.63	2010
19	Mali	1,243,208.25	2010
20	Ethiopia	1,117,893.38	2010
21	Colombia	1,090,598.13	2010
22	Mauritania	1,041,101.88	2010
23	Egypt	951,268.88	2010
24	Tanzania	886,549.56	2010
25	Nigeria	880,103.31	2010
26	Venezuela	868,222.75	2010
27	Namibia	822,303.13	2010
28	Mozambique	769,595.13	2010
29	Pakistan	751,709.50	2010
30	Turkey	723,511.50	2010
31	Chile	709,418.75	2010
32	Morocco	659,759.44	2010
33	Myanmar	657,996.31	2010
34	Somalia	634,302.56	2010
35	Madagascar	587,832.94	2010
36	Kenya	576,333.75	2010
37	Ukraine	553,950.88	2010
38	Thailand	474,183.44	2010
39	Papua New Guinea	459,445.50	2010
40	Cameroon	459,153.19	2010
41	France	457,993.59	2010
42	Spain	432,138.34	2010
43	Iraq	415,377.66	2010
44	Yemen	411,287.59	2010
45	Sweden	390,507.28	2010
46	Republic of the Congo	338,427.13	2010
47	Vietnam	318,130.09	2010
48	Ivory Coast	314,812.34	2010
49	Malaysia	312,833.03	2010
50	Oman	307,667.53	2010
51	Norway	292,187.81	2010
52	Germany	291,859.22	2010
53	Finland	289,666.28	2010
54	Philippines	282,759.13	2010
55	Poland	277,840.50	2010
56	Gabon	261,381.75	2010
57	Japan	260,649.59	2010
58	New Zealand	253,834.70	2010
59	Ecuador	244,458.23	2010
60	Guinea	243,431.19	2010
61	Greenland	242,639.59	2010
62	Laos	227,855.53	2010
63	Ghana	224,697.48	2010
64	Italy	223,236.44	2010
65	Romania	219,047.94	2010
66	Guyana	207,343.42	2010
67	Belarus	198,055.78	2010
68	Senegal	193,255.55	2010
69	United Kingdom	183,648.92	2010
70	Cambodia	176,298.19	2010
71	Syria	173,463.23	2010
72	Uruguay	168,731.92	2010
73	Tunisia	144,635.91	2010
74	Suriname	139,976.17	2010
75	Bangladesh	123,889.63	2010
76	Eritrea	122,239.83	2010
77	North Korea	119,243.45	2010
78	Nicaragua	115,694.29	2010
79	Benin	113,916.96	2010
80	Greece	112,653.58	2010
81	Honduras	108,150.58	2010
82	Bulgaria	103,838.01	2010
83	Guatemala	103,568.34	2010
84	Cuba	100,440.80	2010
85	Liberia	95,634.38	2010
86	Malawi	92,909.46	2010
87	Iceland	88,593.22	2010
88	Jordan	86,229.24	2010
89	Portugal	78,286.85	2010
90	South Korea	77,155.29	2010
91	Panama	71,714.31	2010
92	Sierra Leone	71,494.84	2010
93	United Arab Emirates	70,575.11	2010
94	Georgia	64,912.71	2010
95	Republic of Ireland	63,249.21	2010
96	Sri Lanka	61,106.81	2010
97	Latvia	60,137.24	2010
98	Lithuania	59,360.14	2010
99	Togo	55,426.64	2010
100	South Africa	53,460.31	2010
101	Croatia	51,019.57	2010
102	Bosnia and Herzegovina	49,338.42	2010
103	Costa Rica	46,479.98	2010
104	Dominican Republic	42,784.18	2010
105	Estonia	40,498.62	2010
106	Guinea-Bissau	33,629.70	2010
107	Denmark	33,044.12	2010
108	Moldova	31,217.15	2010
109	Switzerland	30,190.08	2010
110	Solomon Islands	28,264.58	2010
111	Equatorial Guinea	26,800.92	2010
112	Albania	26,686.71	2010
113	Haiti	26,163.42	2010
114	Republic of Macedonia	21,962.62	2010
115	Netherlands	21,411.86	2010
116	Djibouti	21,411.55	2010
117	Belize	21,296.04	2010
118	New Caledonia	18,564.04	2010
119	Belgium	18,091.89	2010
120	Slovenia	17,680.89	2010
121	Fiji	17,199.44	2010
122	Swaziland	16,551.39	2010
123	El Salvador	16,349.95	2010
124	Israel	15,621.78	2010
125	East Timor	14,569.64	2010
126	Kuwait	13,422.94	2010
127	The Bahamas	12,245.52	2010
128	Vanuatu	12,210.13	2010
129	Gambia	10,461.87	2010
130	Qatar	9,779.25	2010
131	Lebanon	8,082.00	2010
132	Jamaica	8,015.42	2010
133	Cyprus	6,949.83	2010
134	Brunei	4,743.62	2010
135	Cape Verde	3,913.57	2010
136	French Polynesia	3,787.23	2010
137	Trinidad and Tobago	2,879.29	2010
138	Samoa	2,748.28	2010
139	Luxembourg	1,782.77	2010
140	Comoros	1,478.79	2010
141	Faroe Islands	1,379.93	2010
142	Kiribati	985.04	2010
143	Turks And Caicos Islands	965.76	2010
144	São Tomé and Príncipe	933.32	2010
145	Mauritius	727.65	2010
146	Tonga	552.35	2010
147	Federated States of Micronesia	517.31	2010
148	Dominica	503.71	2010
149	Puerto Rico	459.92	2010
150	Palau	448.27	2010
151	Northern Mariana Islands	379.39	2010
152	Isle Of Man	333.47	2010
153	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	322.59	2010
154	Maldives	291.78	2010
155	Marshall Islands	284.83	2010
156	Saint Lucia	263.58	2010
157	Hong Kong	231.17	2010
158	Seychelles	187.97	2010
159	Antigua and Barbuda	167.86	2010
160	Grenada	153.51	2010
161	Bahrain	115.14	2010
162	Virgin Islands (British)	106.79	2010
163	Singapore	103.60	2010
164	American Samoa	87.64	2010
165	Cayman Islands	64.62	2010
166	Virgin Islands (US)	63.46	2010
167	Tuvalu	38.76	2010
168	Saint Kitts And Nevis	36.29	2010
169	Guam	33.10	2010
170	Malta	30.63	2010
171	Bermuda	22.78	2010
172	Barbados	14.81	2010
173	Macao	11.18	2010
174	Nauru	10.05	2010
175	Aruba	9.01	2010
176	San Marino	3.74	2010
177	Gibraltar	2.26	2010
178	Monaco	0.48	2010

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