Rural land area (sq. km)

✦ DISCOVERED BY ORIONAITABLELow Elevation Coastal Zone (LECZ) Urban-Rural Population and Land Area Estimates, Version 2, Center For International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) - Columbia University, uri: https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/data/catalog/sedac-ciesin-sedac-lecz-urplaev2-2.00, publisher: NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC), date published: 2013PopulationGlobal
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About this dataset

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.

Columns (4)

countrystringiso3stringyearstringvaluenumber

Sample rows

iso3yearvaluecountry
AFE201514859204.7054525Africa Eastern and Southern
AFW20158999951.33802472Africa Western and Central
ARB201512510108.6831157Arab World
CSS2015396059.78399052Caribbean small states
CEB20151082563.83941029Central Europe and the Baltics
EAR201532540015.6836005Early-demographic dividend
EAS201523595316.8718459East Asia & Pacific
EAP201515210525.0670757East Asia & Pacific (excluding high income)

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