List of countries by irrigated land area
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This is a list of countries by irrigated land
Irrigation
Irrigation may be defined as the science of artificial application of water to the land or soil. It is used to assist in the growing of agricultural crops, maintenance of landscapes, and revegetation of disturbed soils in dry areas and during periods of inadequate rainfall...

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The World Factbook
The World Factbook is a reference resource produced by the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States with almanac-style information about the countries of the world. The official paper copy version is available from the National Technical Information Service and the Government Printing Office...

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Rank Country/Region Irrigated land (km²) Date of
information
- World 2,770,980 2003
1  India 558,080 2003
2  Mainland China 545,960 2003
3  United States 223,850 2003
4  Pakistan 182,300 2003
-  European Union 168,050 2003 est.
5  Iran See also: Irrigation in Iran
Irrigation in Iran
Irrigation in Iran covers 89,930 km2 making it the fifth ranked country in terms of irrigated area.-Tidal irrigation at Abadan island, Iran:The Abadan Island in Khūzestān Province is situated between the Arvand and Bahmanshir rivers...

76,500 2003
6  Mexico See also: Irrigation in Mexico
Irrigation in Mexico
Mexico, a classified arid and semi-arid country, has a total land area of 2 million square kilometres, 23% of which is equipped for irrigated agriculture. The agricultural sector plays an important role in the economic development of the country accounting for 8.4 of agricultural gross domestic...

63,200 2003
7  Turkey 52,150 2003
8  Thailand 49,860 2003
9  Bangladesh 47,250 2003
10  Russia 46,000 2003
11  Indonesia 45,000 2003
12  Uzbekistan 42,810 2003
13  Spain 37,800 2003
14  Kazakhstan 35,560 2003
15  Iraq 35,250 2003
16  Egypt 34,220 2003
17  Kingdom of Romania 30,770 2003
18  Vietnam 30,000 2003
19  Brazil See also: Irrigation in Brazil
Irrigation in Brazil
Irrigation in Brazil has been developed through the use of different models. Public involvement in irrigation is relatively new while private investment has traditionally been responsible for irrigation development. Private irrigation predominates in the populated South, Southeast, and Center-West...

29,200 2003
20  Italy 27,500 2003
21  Early Modern France 26,000 2003
22  Japan 25,920 2003
23  Australia See also: Irrigation in Australia
Irrigation in Australia
Irrigation in Australia is a widespread practice to supplement low rainfall levels in Australia with water from other sources to assist in the production of crops or pasture. As the driest inhabited continent, irrigation is required in many areas for production of crops for domestic and export use...

25,450 2003
24  Ukraine 22,080 2003
25  Chile 19,000 2003
26  Myanmar 18,700 2003
27  Sudan (including ) 18,630 2003
28  Turkmenistan 18,000 2003
29  Saudi Arabia See also: Irrigation in Saudi Arabia
Irrigation in Saudi Arabia
Center pivot irrigation in Saudi Arabia is typical of many isolated irrigation projects scattered throughout the arid and hyper-arid regions of the Earth. Fossil water is mined from depths as great as 1 km , pumped to the surface, and distributed via large centre pivot irrigation feeds...

16,200 2003
30  Philippines 15,500 2003
31  South Africa 14,980 2003
32  North Korea 14,600 2003
33  Azerbaijan 14,550 2003
34  Greece 14,530 2003
35  Morocco 14,450 2003
36  Syria 13,330 2003
37  Peru See also: Irrigation in Peru
Irrigation in Peru
Water resources and irrigation infrastructure in Peru vary throughout the country. The coastal region, an arid but fertile land, has about two-thirds of Peru’s irrigation infrastructure due to private and public investment aimed at increasing agricultural exports...

12,000 2003
38  Nepal 11,700 2003
39  Madagascar 10,860 2003
40  Kyrgyzstan 10,720 2003
41  Colombia See also: Irrigation in Colombia
Irrigation in Colombia
Irrigation in Colombia has been an integral part of Colombia's agricultural and rural development in the 20th Century. Public investment in irrigation has been especially prominent in the first half of the Century...

9,000 2003
42  South Korea 8,780 2003
43  Cuba 8,700 2003
44  Ecuador 8,650 2003
45  Canada 7,850 2003
46  Sri Lanka 7,430 2003
47  Tajikistan 7,220 2003
48  Portugal 6,500 2003
49  Kingdom of Bulgaria 5,880 2003
50  Venezuela 5,750 2003
51  Netherlands 5,650 2003
52  Yemen 5,500 2003
53  Germany 4,850 2003
54  Libya 4,700 2003
55  Georgia (country) 4,690 2003
56  Denmark 4,490 2003
57  Tunisia 3,940 2003
58  Malaysia 3,650 2003
59  Albania 3,530 2003
59  Moldova 3,000 2003
60  Ethiopia 2,900 2003
61  New Zealand 2,850 2003
62  Nigeria 2,820 2003
63  Dominican Republic See also: Irrigation in the Dominican Republic
Irrigation in the Dominican Republic
Irrigation in the Dominican Republic has been an integral part of DR agricultural and economic development in the 20th Century. Public investment in irrigation has been the main driver for irrigation infrastructural development in the country...

2,750 2003
64  Cambodia 2,700 2003
65  Mali 2,360 2003
66  Hungary 2,300 2003
67  Uruguay 2,100 2003
68  Somalia 2,000 2003
69  Israel 1,940 2003
70  Tanzania 1,840 2003
71  Slovakia 1,830 2003
72  Laos 1,750 2003
73  Zimbabwe 1,740 2003
74  United Kingdom 1,700 2003
75  Zambia 1,560 2003
76  Guyana 1,500 2003
77  Bolivia See also: Irrigation in Bolivia
Irrigation in Bolivia
Bolivia’s government considers irrigated agriculture as a major contributor to "better quality of life, rural and national development." After a period of social unrest caused by the privatization of water supply in Cochabamba and La Paz, the government of Evo Morales is undertaking a major...

1,320 2003
78  Belarus 1,310 2003
79  Guatemala 1,300 2003
80  Norway 1,270 2003
81  Senegal 1,200 2003
82  Mozambique 1,180 2003
83  Sweden 1,150 2003
84  Costa Rica 1,080 2003
85  East Timor 1,065 2003
86  Lebanon 1,040 2003
87  Kenya 1,030 2003
88  Poland 1,000 2003
89  Guinea 950 2003
90  Haiti 920 2003
91  Mongolia 840 2003
92  Honduras 800 2003
93  United Arab Emirates 760 2003
94  Jordan 750 2003
95  Niger 730 2003
96  Côte d'Ivoire 730 2003
97  Oman 720 2003
98  Paraguay 670 2003
99  Finland 640 2003
100  Nicaragua 610 2003
101  Malawi 560 2003
102  Republic of Macedonia 550 2003
103  Suriname 510 2003
104  Swaziland 500 2003
105  Mauritania 490 2002
106  El Salvador 450 2003
107  Panama 430 2003
108  Puerto Rico 400 2003
109  Cyprus 400 2003
110  Bhutan 400 2003
111  Belgium 400 2003
112  Ghana 310 2003
113  Sierra Leone 300 2003
114  Chad 300 2003
115  Cameroon 260 2003
116  Switzerland 250 2003
117  Jamaica 250 2002
118  Guinea-Bissau 250 2003
119  Burkina Faso 250 2003
120  Czech Republic 240 2003
121  Mauritius 220 2003
122  Eritrea 210 2003
123  Burundi 210 2003
124  Latvia 200 2003
125  Qatar 130 2002
126  Kuwait 130 2003
127  Benin 120 2003
128  Independent State of Croatia 110 2003
129  Democratic Republic of the Congo 110 2003
130  São Tomé and Príncipe 100 2003
131  New Caledonia 100 2003
132  Uganda 90 2003
133  Rwanda 90 2003
134  Namibia 80 2003
135  Togo 70 2003
136  Lithuania 70 2003
137  Gabon 70 2003
138  Barbados 50 2003
139  Trinidad and Tobago 40 2003
140  Estonia 40 2003
141  Bahrain 40 2003
142  Austria 40 2003
143  Slovenia 30 2003
144  Saint Lucia 30 2003
145  Liberia 30 2003
146  Lesotho 30 2003
147  Fiji 30 2003
148  Cape Verde 30 2003
149  Bosnia and Herzegovina 30 2003
150  Belize 30 2003
151  Malta 20 2003
152  Hong Kong 20 1998 est.
153 20 2003
154  Republic of the Congo 20 2003
155  Central African Republic 20 2003
156  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 10 2003
157  French Polynesia 10 2003
158  Djibouti 10 2003
159  Brunei 10 2003
160  Botswana 10 2003
161 10 2003
162  Wake Island 0 NA
163 Spratly Islands
Spratly Islands
The Spratly Islands are a group of more than 750 reefs, islets, atolls, cays and islands in the South China Sea. The archipelago lies off the coasts of the Philippines and Malaysia , about one third of the way from there to southern Vietnam. They comprise less than four square kilometers of land...

0 NA
164  South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands 0 NA
165  Paracel Islands
Paracel Islands
The Paracel Islands, also called Xisha Islands in Chinese and Hoàng Sa Islands in Vietnamese, is a group of islands under the administration of Hainan Province, The People's Republic of China. Vietnam and the Republic of China also claim sovereignty of these islands...

0 NA
166  Marshall Islands 0 NA
167  Jan Mayen
Jan Mayen
Jan Mayen Island is a volcanic island in the Arctic Ocean and part of the Kingdom of Norway. It is long and 373 km2 in area, partly covered by glaciers . It has two parts: larger northeast Nord-Jan and smaller Sør-Jan, linked by an isthmus wide...

0 NA
168  Isle of Man 0 NA
169  Vatican City 0 NA
170  Heard Island and McDonald Islands 0 NA
171  French Southern Territories 0 NA
172  Faroe Islands 0 NA
173  Coral Sea Islands
Coral Sea Islands
The Coral Sea Islands Territory includes a group of small and mostly uninhabited tropical islands and reefs in the Coral Sea, northeast of Queensland, Australia. The only inhabited island is Willis Island...

0 NA
174  Clipperton Island
Clipperton Island
Clipperton Island is an uninhabited nine-square-kilometre coral atoll in the eastern Pacific Ocean, southwest of Mexico and west of Central America, at...

0 NA
175  British Indian Ocean Territory 0 NA
176  Bouvet Island
Bouvet Island
Bouvet Island is an uninhabited Antarctic volcanic island in the South Atlantic Ocean, 2,525 km south-southwest of South Africa. It is a dependent territory of Norway and, lying north of 60°S latitude, is not subject to the Antarctic Treaty. The centre of the island is an ice-filled crater of an...

0 NA
177  Ashmore and Cartier Islands
Ashmore and Cartier Islands
The Territory of the Ashmore and Cartier Islands is an external territory of Australia consisting of two groups of small low-lying uninhabited tropical islands in the Indian Ocean situated on the edge of the continental shelf north-west of Australia and south of the Indonesian island of...

0 NA
178  American Samoa NA NA
179  Andorra NA NA
180  Anguilla NA NA
181  Antigua and Barbuda NA NA
182  Bermuda NA NA
183  British Virgin Islands NA NA
184  Cayman Islands NA NA
185  Christmas Island NA NA
186  Cocos (Keeling) Islands NA NA
187  Comoros NA NA
188  Cook Islands NA NA
189  Dominica NA NA
190  Equatorial Guinea NA NA
191  Falkland Islands NA NA
192  Gibraltar NA NA
193  Greenland NA NA
194  Grenada NA NA
195  Guam NA NA
196  Guernsey NA NA
197  Iceland NA NA
198  Republic of Ireland NA NA
199  Jersey NA NA
200  Kiribati NA NA
201  Liechtenstein NA NA
202  Luxembourg NA NA
203  Macau NA NA
204  Maldives NA NA
205  Mayotte NA NA
206 NA NA
207  Monaco NA NA
208  Kingdom of Montenegro NA NA
209  Montserrat NA NA
210  Nauru NA NA
211  Netherlands Antilles NA NA
212  Niue NA NA
213  Norfolk Island NA NA
214  Northern Mariana Islands NA NA
215  Palau NA NA
216  Papua New Guinea NA NA
217  Pitcairn Islands NA NA
218  Saint Helena NA NA
219  Saint Kitts and Nevis NA NA
220  Saint-Pierre and Miquelon NA NA
221  Samoa NA NA
222  San Marino NA NA
223  Serbia NA NA
224  Seychelles NA NA
225  Singapore NA NA
226  Solomon Islands NA NA
227  Svalbard NA NA
228  Republic of China NA NA
229  Tokelau NA NA
230  Tonga NA NA
231  Turks and Caicos Islands NA NA
232  Tuvalu NA NA
233  Vanuatu NA NA
234  United States Virgin Islands NA NA
235  Wallis and Futuna NA NA
236  Western Sahara NA NA

See also

  • Irrigation
    Irrigation
    Irrigation may be defined as the science of artificial application of water to the land or soil. It is used to assist in the growing of agricultural crops, maintenance of landscapes, and revegetation of disturbed soils in dry areas and during periods of inadequate rainfall...

  • Irrigation statistics
    Irrigation statistics
    This page shows statistical data on irrigation of agricultural lands world wide.Irrigation is the artificial abstraction of water from a source followed by the distribution of it at scheme level aiming at application at field level to enhance crop production when rainfall is scarce.-Irrigated...

  • Irrigation environmental impacts
  • Irrigation management
    Irrigation management
    Irrigation is the artificial exploitation and distribution of water at project level aiming at application of water at field level to agricultural crops in dry areas or in periods of scarce rainfall to assure or improve crop production...

  • Irrigation of alluvial fans
    Irrigation of alluvial fans
    Irrigation of alluvial fans is the use of water resources, mainly river floods and groundwater recharged by infiltration of river water, to enhance the production of agricultural crops.*Alluvial fans, when large and flat, are also called inland deltas...

  • Irrigation district
    Irrigation district
    In the United States an irrigation district is a cooperative, self-governing public corporation set up as a subdivision of the State government, with definite geographic boundaries, organized, and having taxing power to obtain and distribute water for irrigation of lands within the district;...


  • Gezira Scheme
    Gezira Scheme
    The Gezira Scheme is one of the largest irrigation projects in the world. It is centered on the Sudanese state of Al Jazirah, just southeast of the confluence of the Blue and White Nile rivers at the city of Khartoum. The economy of Sudan was historically based on agriculture prior to the...

  • Lift irrigation scheme
    Lift irrigation scheme
    Lift irrigation is a method of irrigation in which water is not transported by natural flow but is lifted with pumps or other means.-Overview:...

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  • Paddy field
    Paddy field
    A paddy field is a flooded parcel of arable land used for growing rice and other semiaquatic crops. Paddy fields are a typical feature of rice farming in east, south and southeast Asia. Paddies can be built into steep hillsides as terraces and adjacent to depressed or steeply sloped features such...

  • Qanat
    Qanat
    A qanāt is a water management system used to provide a reliable supply of water for human settlements and irrigation in hot, arid and semi-arid climates...

  • Surface irrigation
    Surface irrigation
    Surface irrigation is defined as the group of application techniques where water is applied and distributed over the soil surface by gravity. It is by far the most common form of irrigation throughout the world and has been practiced in many areas virtually unchanged for thousands of years.Surface...

  • Tidal irrigation
    Tidal irrigation
    Tidal irrigation is the subsurface irrigation of levee soils in coastal plains with river water under tidal influence. It is applied in arid zones at the mouth of a large river estuary or delta where a considerable tidal range is present...



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