Urban land area of countries

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This dataset is about countries. It has 2 columns: country, and urban land area. The data is ordered by population.

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There are 2 fields used in this dataset (including filters):
  • Country: Name of country.
  • Urban Land Area: Urban land area in square kilometers, 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: SIPRI, World Bank, Reporters Without Borders

This dataset can be used under the CC BY 4.0 license

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