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# Land Area
- URL: https://www.vizney.com/land-area/
- Published: 2024-11-23T03:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-09-10T02:32:06.000Z
- Description: This dashboard allows you to view and compare the land areas of countries around the world.
- Author: Yehwan Hwang
- Tags: Statistics, Gallery

### Definition

Land area is a country's total area, excluding area under inland water bodies, national claims to continental shelf, and exclusive economic zones. In most cases the definition of inland water bodies includes major rivers and lakes.

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The [Mercator projection](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator%5Fprojection?ref=vizney.com), commonly used for world maps, has a significant distortion that exaggerates the size of areas as they get closer to the poles.  
To accurately compare land areas, this dashboard uses the [Gall-Peters projection](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gall%E2%80%93Peters%5Fprojection?ref=vizney.com). As a result, the shapes of countries near the polar regions, such as Russia and Canada, may appear different from the familiar representations.

### Source

[World Bank Open DataFree and open access to global development data![](https://kr.vizney.com/content/images/icon/favicon-3.ico)World Bank Open Data![](https://kr.vizney.com/content/images/thumbnail/logo-wb-header-en-2.svg)](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/AG.LND.TOTL.K2?ref=vizney.com)

[Natural Earth - Free vector and raster map data at 1:10m, 1:50m, and 1:110m scales![](https://kr.vizney.com/content/images/icon/favicon-4.ico)Free vector and raster map data at 1:10m, 1:50m, and 1:110m scales![](https://kr.vizney.com/content/images/thumbnail/pop_banner.png)](https://www.naturalearthdata.com/?ref=vizney.com)

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