World Bank · Agriculture

Switzerland: Rural land area

34,764sq 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 Switzerland from 1990 to 2015.

19902015

Every year

YearValue (sq km)Note
201534,763.581
200035,391.622
199035,714.085

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

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World Bank (2026). Rural land area. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-rural-land-area (accessed 2026-11-08). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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