Urban land area per country
This area map of countries shows the sum of urban land area. The darker shades for each country indictate a higher sum of urban land area.
Type: Area Map 
Area Map
Metric
: urban land
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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 metric is expressed in km².
Details
This map is based on data from: SIPRI, World Bank, Reporters Without Borders
This map is made with Leaflet
Updated: 16 days ago
This map can be used under the CC BY 4.0 license
