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Land area
Part A - Plain language definition:
Number of square kilometres of land in a given geographic area (e.g., a province, a territory, a city).
Part B - Detailed definition:
Land area is the area in square kilometres of the land-based portions of standard geographic areas.
Land area data are unofficial, and are provided for the sole purpose of calculating population density.
