Land area and rural land area of regions
This dataset is about regions. It has 3 columns: region, land 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):
- Region: Name of region.
- Land Area: Land area is a country's total area, excluding area under inland water bodies, national claims to continental shelf, and exclusive economic zones. In most cases the definition of inland water bodies includes major rivers and lakes. 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 has 22 rows and is 100% filled with values (non-null)
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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