World Bank · Agriculture

Belarus: Rural land area

201,456sq km · 2015

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. Annual figures for Belarus from 1990 to 2015.

19902015

Every year

YearValue (sq km)Note
2015201,456.005
2000201,167.758
1990201,159.129

Source

Published by World Bank, produced by CIESIN, Columbia University. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-07.

The dataset for every country, with quality and provenance →

Cite or download

World Bank (2026). Rural land area. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-rural-land-area (accessed 2026-11-07). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

CSV, all countriesJSON, BelarusAPI and MCP

Rural land area in other countries

Rank Belarus against its region, see where publishers disagree, or ask a question in plain words on the Interva desk.

Belarus: Rural land area (1990–2015) · Interva