Forest area and rural land area of continents

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This dataset is about continents. It has 3 columns: continent, forest area, and rural land area. The data is ordered by population (descending).

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There are 3 fields used in this dataset (including filters):
  • Continent: Name of continent.
  • Forest Area: Forest area is land under natural or planted stands of trees of at least 5 meters in situ, whether productive or not, and excludes tree stands in agricultural production systems (for example, in fruit plantations and agroforestry systems) and trees in urban parks and gardens. This field is expressed in km².
  • Rural Land Area: 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. This field is expressed in km².

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This dataset is based on data from: World Bank

This dataset can be used under the CC BY 4.0 license

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