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Definition: Land Area |
Land AreaNoun1. An area of ground used for some particular purpose (such as building or farming); "he wanted some acreage to build on". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Land AreaSynonym: acreage (n). (additional references) |
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![]() | The West Fjords are a series of peninsulas in northwestern Iceland. They represent less than one-eighth the country's land area, but their jagged perimeter accounts for more than half of Iceland's total coastline.Credit: NASA. | ![]() | McCone County, Montana. Dry land area.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Business | South Africa is not richly endowed in natural resources and only 12% of the land area are arable. (references) | |
Singapore is a tropical country with an average daily temperature of 26.8 degrees celsius and a total land area of approximately 650 square kilometers. (references) | ||
It is a mountainous country and internal communications are partly restricted through the need for tunneling to build new motor ways. About 45 percent of the total land area is forested. (references) | ||
Economic History | South Korea | Arable land--22% of land area. (references) |
Armenia | Only 17 percent of Armenia's land area is arable. (references) | |
Libya | Libya has a small population in a large land area. (references) | |
Political Economy | Israel and the occupied territories | The Government owns and manages 77 percent of the country's land area, and as a matter of policy it does not sell land. (references) |
Israel and the occupied territories | The Jewish National Fund (JNF), an organization established in 1897 for the purchase and management of land for the Jewish people, owns 8 percent of the country's land area, including a considerable amount transferred directly from the Government, and manages another 8 percent on behalf of the Government. (references) | |
THE BAHAMAS | Under the new law, approval is automatically granted for non-Bahamians to purchase residential property of less than five acres on any single island in The Bahamas, except where the property constitutes over fifty percent of the land area of a cay (small island) or involves ownership of an airport or marina. (references) | |
Trade | Hungary | The land area of any enterprise or that of plants already existing or under construction can be declared a duty-free zone by customs authorities. (references) |
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Expression using "land area": arable land area. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "land area"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | udkantsområde (land not zoned, outlying area, outlying district, reserved zone, white area, white land, white land area, zone not scheduled for development), udkantområde (land not zoned, outlying area, outlying district, reserved zone, white area, white land, white land area, zone not scheduled for development), dyrkede arealer (arable land, arable land area). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | landelijk gebied (country area, country region, land not zoned, outlying area, outlying district, reserved zone, rural area, rural district, rural region, rural zone, white area, white land, white land area, zone not scheduled for development), buitengebied (land not zoned, outlying area, outlying district, reserved zone, rural area, white area, white land, white land area, zone not scheduled for development), bouwland (arable area, arable land, arable land area, arable lands, farmland, plough lands, tilled area, tilled lands). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | reservialue (land not zoned, outlying area, outlying district, reserved zone, white area, white land, white land area, zone not scheduled for development), peltoala (arable area, arable land, arable land area, tilled area). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | zone réservée (land not zoned, lane, white land, white land area), zone non affectée (land not zoned, white land, white land area), terres arables (arable land, arable land area, arable lands, plough lands, tilled lands). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Reservefläche (land not zoned, outlying area, outlying district, reserved zone, white area, white land, white land area, zone not scheduled for development), Außenbereich (land not zoned, outlying area, outlying district, reserved zone, white area, white land, white land area, zone not scheduled for development), Ackerland (arable farm Land, arable land, arable land area, arable lands, cropped land, cultivated area, cultivated land, farmland, infield, plough lands, plowland, tilled lands). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | περιοχή εκτός ορίων ρυθμιστικού σχεδίου (land not zoned, outlying area, outlying district, reserved zone, white area, white land, white land area, zone not scheduled for development), εφεδρική έκταση (land not zoned, outlying area, outlying district, reserved zone, white area, white land, white land area, zone not scheduled for development), αροτραίες εκτάσεις (arable land, arable land area), δεσμευμένη ζώνη (land not zoned, outlying area, outlying district, reserved zone, white area, white land, white land area, zone not scheduled for development). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | zona riservata (land not zoned, outlying area, outlying district, reserved zone, white area, white land, white land area, zone not scheduled for development), zona non edificata (land not zoned, outlying area, outlying district, reserved zone, white area, white land, white land area, zone not scheduled for development), zona non destinata all'urbanizzazione (land not zoned, outlying area, outlying district, reserved zone, white area, white land, white land area, zone not scheduled for development), seminativi (arable land, arable land area). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 段別 (acreage, marking off fields in units of tan), 反別 (acreage, marking off fields in units of tan). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | た"べつ (acreage, marking off fields in units of tan). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | andlay areaay terras aráveis (arable land, arable land area, arable lands, plough lands, tilled lands). (various references) zona de reserva (land not zoned, outlying area, outlying district, reserved zone, white area, white land, white land area, zone not scheduled for development), tierras arables (arable land, arable land area). (various references) oplanerade ytterområden (land not zoned, outlying area, outlying district, reserved zone, white area, white land, white land area, zone not scheduled for development), oplanerad mark (land not zoned, outlying area, outlying district, reserved zone, white area, white land, white land area, zone not scheduled for development). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-d-e-l-n-r" | |
-1 letter: adrenal. | |
-2 letters: darnel, lander. | |
-3 letters: aland, alane, alder, anear, areal, arena, denar, eland, laden, lader, learn, naled, redan, renal. | |
-4 letters: alae, alan, alar, anal, area, dale, dare, darn, deal, dean, dear, earl, earn, elan, lade, land, lane, lard, lead, lean, lear, lend, nada, nard, near, nerd, rale, rand, read, real, rend. | |
-5 letters: aal, ala, ale, ana, and, ane, are, dal, del, den, ear, eld, end, era, ern, lad, lar, lea, led, nae, rad, ran, red. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-a-d-e-l-n-r" | |
+2 letters: calamander, candelabra, salamander. | |
+3 letters: calamanders, candelabras, cardinalate, rataplanned, salamanders. | |
+4 letters: cardinalates, salamandrine. | |
+5 letters: aerodynamical, antidiarrheal, grandparental, transvaluated. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 61 6E 64      41 72 65 61 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01100001 01101110 01100100 00100000 01000001 01110010 01100101 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L a n d   A r e a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0061 006E 0064      0041 0072 0065 0061 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)46678070235847167 |
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