Urban land area where elevation is below 5 meters (% of total land area)

This indicator quantifies the proportion of urban terrain situated at or below 5 meters in elevation relative to the overall land area within a city. Areas at low elevation are particularly vulnerable to flooding and other climate-related challenges, such as rising sea levels and extreme weather events. Monitoring this percentage can provide crucial insights into urban resilience, infrastructure planning, and environmental sustainability. It serves as a critical metric for city planners and policymakers aiming to implement effective risk mitigation strategies and enhance adaptive capacities in vulnerable urban environments. A higher percentage may signal the need for urgent interventions to protect communities and ensure sustainable development in exposed areas. Source:

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2015

#	Country	Urban land area where elevation is below 5 meters (% of total land area)	Year
1	Gibraltar	47.06	2015
2	Macao SAR, China	32.78	2015
3	Monaco	19.84	2015
4	Bermuda	17.94	2015
5	Bahrain	16.22	2015
6	St. Martin (French part)	12.69	2015
7	Netherlands	12.33	2015
8	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	11.17	2015
9	Hong Kong SAR, China	6.54	2015
10	Nauru	5.89	2015
11	Bangladesh	5.15	2015
12	Aruba	4.13	2015
13	Cayman Islands	4.01	2015
14	Maldives	3.91	2015
15	Viet Nam	3.69	2015
16	Singapore	3.16	2015
17	Marshall Islands	2.33	2015
18	Virgin Islands (U.S.)	2.07	2015
19	Malta	2.02	2015
20	Grenada	2.02	2015
21	Puerto Rico	2	2015
22	Japan	1.77	2015
23	Belgium	1.71	2015
24	Barbados	1.41	2015
25	British Virgin Islands	1.3	2015
26	St. Lucia	1.1	2015
27	Jamaica	1.06	2015
28	Trinidad and Tobago	1	2015
29	Seychelles	0.98	2015
30	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	0.91	2015
31	Qatar	0.91	2015
32	Mauritius	0.87	2015
33	Curacao	0.86	2015
34	Tonga	0.85	2015
35	Denmark	0.83	2015
36	Thailand	0.78	2015
37	Antigua and Barbuda	0.78	2015
38	American Samoa	0.68	2015
39	United Arab Emirates	0.67	2015
40	Comoros	0.65	2015
41	St. Kitts and Nevis	0.64	2015
42	Brunei Darussalam	0.59	2015
43	Malaysia	0.53	2015
44	Philippines	0.51	2015
45	Egypt, Arab Rep.	0.49	2015
46	Kuwait	0.46	2015
47	Korea, Rep.	0.44	2015
48	Turks and Caicos Islands	0.44	2015
49	Sri Lanka	0.43	2015
50	Kiribati	0.41	2015
51	Dominica	0.4	2015
52	Lebanon	0.39	2015
53	Isle of Man	0.39	2015
54	Italy	0.36	2015
55	Palau	0.36	2015
56	China	0.36	2015
57	Guam	0.35	2015
58	United Kingdom	0.34	2015
59	Cyprus	0.33	2015
60	Israel	0.32	2015
61	Micronesia, Fed. Sts.	0.32	2015
62	Northern Mariana Islands	0.29	2015
63	French Polynesia	0.27	2015
64	Indonesia	0.27	2015
65	Germany	0.24	2015
66	Haiti	0.24	2015
67	Albania	0.24	2015
68	Gambia, The	0.23	2015
69	India	0.22	2015
70	Benin	0.21	2015
71	Tunisia	0.21	2015
72	Bahamas, The	0.2	2015
73	Belize	0.19	2015
74	Spain	0.17	2015
75	Greece	0.16	2015
76	Dominican Republic	0.15	2015
77	Latvia	0.14	2015
78	Suriname	0.14	2015
79	Korea, Dem. People's Rep.	0.14	2015
80	France	0.13	2015
81	Portugal	0.13	2015
82	Liberia	0.13	2015
83	West Bank and Gaza	0.12	2015
84	Ghana	0.12	2015
85	Samoa	0.12	2015
86	Croatia	0.12	2015
87	Fiji	0.12	2015
88	Cabo Verde	0.11	2015
89	Sao Tome and Principe	0.11	2015
90	Montenegro	0.11	2015
91	Nigeria	0.11	2015
92	Cuba	0.1	2015
93	Senegal	0.08	2015
94	Turkiye	0.08	2015
95	Ireland	0.08	2015
96	Georgia	0.08	2015
97	Guinea-Bissau	0.08	2015
98	El Salvador	0.07	2015
99	Poland	0.07	2015
100	Guyana	0.07	2015
101	Panama	0.07	2015
102	Sweden	0.07	2015
103	New Caledonia	0.06	2015
104	Togo	0.06	2015
105	Equatorial Guinea	0.06	2015
106	Slovenia	0.06	2015
107	Ecuador	0.06	2015
108	Iraq	0.06	2015
109	United States	0.06	2015
110	Myanmar	0.05	2015
111	Sierra Leone	0.05	2015
112	Costa Rica	0.05	2015
113	Estonia	0.05	2015
114	Oman	0.05	2015
115	New Zealand	0.04	2015
116	Timor-Leste	0.04	2015
117	Norway	0.04	2015
118	Finland	0.04	2015
119	Djibouti	0.04	2015
120	Ukraine	0.04	2015
121	Morocco	0.04	2015
122	Vanuatu	0.04	2015
123	Venezuela, RB	0.04	2015
124	Honduras	0.04	2015
125	Guinea	0.04	2015
126	Cote d'Ivoire	0.04	2015
127	Bulgaria	0.03	2015
128	Uruguay	0.03	2015
129	Lithuania	0.03	2015
130	Solomon Islands	0.03	2015
131	Mexico	0.02	2015
132	Saudi Arabia	0.02	2015
133	Cambodia	0.02	2015
134	Madagascar	0.02	2015
135	Brazil	0.02	2015
136	Mozambique	0.02	2015
137	Iran, Islamic Rep.	0.02	2015
138	Libya	0.01	2015
139	Syrian Arab Republic	0.01	2015
140	Gabon	0.01	2015
141	Iceland	0.01	2015
142	Guatemala	0.01	2015
143	Nicaragua	0.01	2015
144	Yemen, Rep.	0.01	2015
145	Colombia	0.01	2015
146	Romania	0.01	2015
147	Mauritania	0.01	2015
148	Cameroon	0.01	2015
149	Papua New Guinea	0.01	2015
150	Australia	0.01	2015
151	Chile	0.01	2015
152	Argentina	0.01	2015
153	South Africa	0.01	2015
154	Pakistan	0.01	2015
155	Angola	0.01	2015
156	Algeria	0.01	2015
157	Eritrea	0.01	2015
158	Kenya	0	2015
159	Peru	0	2015
160	Somalia	0	2015
161	Tanzania	0	2015
162	Russian Federation	0	2015
163	Canada	0	2015
164	Congo, Rep.	0	2015
165	Jordan	0	2015
166	Sudan	0	2015
167	Greenland	0	2015
168	Namibia	0	2015
169	Congo, Dem. Rep.	0	2015
170	Afghanistan	0	2015
171	Andorra	0	2015
172	Armenia	0	2015
173	Austria	0	2015
174	Azerbaijan	0	2015
175	Belarus	0	2015
176	Bhutan	0	2015
177	Bolivia	0	2015
178	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0	2015
179	Botswana	0	2015
180	Burkina Faso	0	2015
181	Burundi	0	2015
182	Central African Republic	0	2015
183	Chad	0	2015
184	Czechia	0	2015
185	Eswatini	0	2015
186	Ethiopia	0	2015
187	Faroe Islands	0	2015
188	Hungary	0	2015
189	Kazakhstan	0	2015
190	Kyrgyz Republic	0	2015
191	Lao PDR	0	2015
192	Lesotho	0	2015
193	Liechtenstein	0	2015
194	Luxembourg	0	2015
195	Malawi	0	2015
196	Mali	0	2015
197	Moldova	0	2015
198	Mongolia	0	2015
199	Nepal	0	2015
200	Niger	0	2015
201	North Macedonia	0	2015
202	Paraguay	0	2015
203	Rwanda	0	2015
204	San Marino	0	2015
205	Serbia	0	2015
206	Slovak Republic	0	2015
207	South Sudan	0	2015
208	Switzerland	0	2015
209	Tajikistan	0	2015
210	Turkmenistan	0	2015
211	Tuvalu	0	2015
212	Uganda	0	2015
213	Uzbekistan	0	2015
214	Zambia	0	2015
215	Zimbabwe	0	2015

Rank	Country	Value	Year
1	Gibraltar	47.0615020543955	2015
2	Macao SAR, China	32.7841488661865	2015
3	Monaco	19.8437219054976	2015
4	Bermuda	17.9411169824455	2015
5	Bahrain	16.2227128365287	2015
6	St. Martin (French part)	12.6919573600679	2015
7	Netherlands	12.3264209732598	2015
8	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	11.167175461909	2015
9	Hong Kong SAR, China	6.54321711320015	2015
10	Nauru	5.88784976967988	2015
11	Bangladesh	5.15376299414032	2015
12	Aruba	4.13433664077369	2015
13	Cayman Islands	4.01249160853014	2015
14	Maldives	3.90928419944842	2015
15	Viet Nam	3.69001716480874	2015
16	Singapore	3.16068783881107	2015
17	Marshall Islands	2.33434087810756	2015
18	Virgin Islands (U.S.)	2.06630902855278	2015
19	Malta	2.01908233499806	2015
20	Grenada	2.01569722615899	2015
21	Puerto Rico	1.99853897555268	2015
22	Japan	1.77174670864157	2015
23	Belgium	1.70769114050844	2015
24	Barbados	1.4136836745216	2015
25	British Virgin Islands	1.30160589193333	2015
26	St. Lucia	1.1048508977099	2015
27	Jamaica	1.05809470301783	2015
28	Trinidad and Tobago	0.995321934003008	2015
29	Seychelles	0.982370378363171	2015
30	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	0.908002205394091	2015
31	Qatar	0.907134125054895	2015
32	Mauritius	0.870290270175262	2015
33	Curacao	0.855059164905462	2015
34	Tonga	0.847711235925939	2015
35	Denmark	0.834868724375106	2015
36	Thailand	0.783546176117354	2015
37	Antigua and Barbuda	0.782571156109852	2015
38	American Samoa	0.677185304877566	2015
39	United Arab Emirates	0.66542870603058	2015
40	Comoros	0.647881793039219	2015
41	St. Kitts and Nevis	0.640182815697883	2015
42	Brunei Darussalam	0.589725537419448	2015
43	Malaysia	0.52508304753466	2015
44	Philippines	0.513625825260924	2015
45	Egypt, Arab Rep.	0.486798597810249	2015
46	Kuwait	0.455354489248976	2015
47	Korea, Rep.	0.441188310989097	2015
48	Turks and Caicos Islands	0.440753347797297	2015
49	Sri Lanka	0.425952534255569	2015
50	Kiribati	0.406164760192983	2015
51	Dominica	0.401781283536172	2015
52	Lebanon	0.393958338166118	2015
53	Isle of Man	0.388365611490542	2015
54	Italy	0.362786953648732	2015
55	Palau	0.35901369148823	2015
56	China	0.3567981485348	2015
57	Guam	0.349405713253027	2015
58	United Kingdom	0.341832644971562	2015
59	Cyprus	0.330672938754345	2015
60	Israel	0.324689057516393	2015
61	Micronesia, Fed. Sts.	0.321274349929045	2015
62	Northern Mariana Islands	0.289868122058555	2015
63	French Polynesia	0.267436777064049	2015
64	Indonesia	0.266291440717653	2015
65	Germany	0.241155196324363	2015
66	Haiti	0.235940470122452	2015
67	Albania	0.235674405567861	2015
68	Gambia, The	0.233976507692117	2015
69	India	0.224064948861236	2015
70	Benin	0.213489121239495	2015
71	Tunisia	0.2130262649066	2015
72	Bahamas, The	0.195125413465585	2015
73	Belize	0.189990279043499	2015
74	Spain	0.167323425966738	2015
75	Greece	0.159129943996442	2015
76	Dominican Republic	0.145836969556819	2015
77	Latvia	0.143981452837119	2015
78	Suriname	0.142556154824311	2015
79	Korea, Dem. People's Rep.	0.137089038771732	2015
80	France	0.134760737863284	2015
81	Portugal	0.132672738916935	2015
82	Liberia	0.129347567366937	2015
83	West Bank and Gaza	0.12318577115228	2015
84	Ghana	0.122784485962052	2015
85	Samoa	0.122178086165669	2015
86	Croatia	0.116456932463263	2015
87	Fiji	0.115157925596839	2015
88	Cabo Verde	0.11492145831049	2015
89	Sao Tome and Principe	0.112790767369924	2015
90	Montenegro	0.109718249234213	2015
91	Nigeria	0.109048862233708	2015
92	Cuba	0.0956446872801996	2015
93	Senegal	0.0843632598287063	2015
94	Turkiye	0.0835223988957505	2015
95	Ireland	0.0829405588787072	2015
96	Georgia	0.0811549934686211	2015
97	Guinea-Bissau	0.0750560535488457	2015
98	El Salvador	0.0733201425025531	2015
99	Poland	0.0720976544338071	2015
100	Guyana	0.0704036587146613	2015
101	Panama	0.0702848202905008	2015
102	Sweden	0.0660883704048796	2015
103	New Caledonia	0.0644352894267465	2015
104	Togo	0.0630015319992872	2015
105	Equatorial Guinea	0.061935562546771	2015
106	Slovenia	0.0614799473716472	2015
107	Ecuador	0.0585432544731608	2015
108	Iraq	0.056995858438687	2015
109	United States	0.0550514086317826	2015
110	Myanmar	0.0548843042410738	2015
111	Sierra Leone	0.0533404237518951	2015
112	Costa Rica	0.0526567180701367	2015
113	Estonia	0.0485712864420752	2015
114	Oman	0.0456779561602288	2015
115	New Zealand	0.0434340197326622	2015
116	Timor-Leste	0.0433261911182652	2015
117	Norway	0.0425127162788548	2015
118	Finland	0.0412413345629438	2015
119	Djibouti	0.0388091220968094	2015
120	Ukraine	0.0380185306530379	2015
121	Morocco	0.0377489705098307	2015
122	Vanuatu	0.0365078588679	2015
123	Venezuela, RB	0.0362701349801498	2015
124	Honduras	0.0361378588854387	2015
125	Guinea	0.0354769164542542	2015
126	Cote d'Ivoire	0.0351119233077257	2015
127	Bulgaria	0.0338133429329448	2015
128	Uruguay	0.0296270582633509	2015
129	Lithuania	0.0276904378923857	2015
130	Solomon Islands	0.0265876055564944	2015
131	Mexico	0.0218392551383301	2015
132	Saudi Arabia	0.0197986700402435	2015
133	Cambodia	0.0185798374376593	2015
134	Madagascar	0.017962140057161	2015
135	Brazil	0.0178351526776787	2015
136	Mozambique	0.0163008361620869	2015
137	Iran, Islamic Rep.	0.0160591681876575	2015
138	Libya	0.0146588171535494	2015
139	Syrian Arab Republic	0.014255289838786	2015
140	Gabon	0.0140030843095653	2015
141	Iceland	0.0135446215272438	2015
142	Guatemala	0.012566817914285	2015
143	Nicaragua	0.0122778434423933	2015
144	Yemen, Rep.	0.011927489732093	2015
145	Colombia	0.011513278779794	2015
146	Romania	0.0113636297051961	2015
147	Mauritania	0.011008194160562	2015
148	Cameroon	0.010786180369566	2015
149	Papua New Guinea	0.0102594494919927	2015
150	Australia	0.00981342733687323	2015
151	Chile	0.00915057227654696	2015
152	Argentina	0.00885170703133937	2015
153	South Africa	0.00813369375793714	2015
154	Pakistan	0.00813024550618311	2015
155	Angola	0.00718678972646164	2015
156	Algeria	0.00710774380396344	2015
157	Eritrea	0.00697253687538946	2015
158	Kenya	0.00494242724713268	2015
159	Peru	0.00455895171875887	2015
160	Somalia	0.0043821899536738	2015
161	Tanzania	0.00432650244209202	2015
162	Russian Federation	0.00356941584020928	2015
163	Canada	0.00315521286062174	2015
164	Congo, Rep.	0.002119186964186	2015
165	Jordan	0.00132906417056332	2015
166	Sudan	0.00121880659268743	2015
167	Greenland	0.000735832051513541	2015
168	Namibia	0.000416811490079811	2015
169	Congo, Dem. Rep.	0.000119920245287276	2015
170	Afghanistan	0	2015
171	Andorra	0	2015
172	Armenia	0	2015
173	Austria	0	2015
174	Azerbaijan	0	2015
175	Belarus	0	2015
176	Bhutan	0	2015
177	Bolivia	0	2015
178	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0	2015
179	Botswana	0	2015
180	Burkina Faso	0	2015
181	Burundi	0	2015
182	Central African Republic	0	2015
183	Chad	0	2015
184	Czechia	0	2015
185	Eswatini	0	2015
186	Ethiopia	0	2015
187	Faroe Islands	0	2015
188	Hungary	0	2015
189	Kazakhstan	0	2015
190	Kyrgyz Republic	0	2015
191	Lao PDR	0	2015
192	Lesotho	0	2015
193	Liechtenstein	0	2015
194	Luxembourg	0	2015
195	Malawi	0	2015
196	Mali	0	2015
197	Moldova	0	2015
198	Mongolia	0	2015
199	Nepal	0	2015
200	Niger	0	2015
201	North Macedonia	0	2015
202	Paraguay	0	2015
203	Rwanda	0	2015
204	San Marino	0	2015
205	Serbia	0	2015
206	Slovak Republic	0	2015
207	South Sudan	0	2015
208	Switzerland	0	2015
209	Tajikistan	0	2015
210	Turkmenistan	0	2015
211	Tuvalu	0	2015
212	Uganda	0	2015
213	Uzbekistan	0	2015
214	Zambia	0	2015
215	Zimbabwe	0	2015