Urban 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

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.

Columns (4)

countrystringiso3stringyearstringvaluenumber

Sample rows

iso3yearvaluecountry
AFE201563984.1243767853Africa Eastern and Southern
AFW201551046.987690028Africa Western and Central
ARB201576974.6325607486Arab World
CSS20152028.77297926331Caribbean small states
CEB201536530.9179760506Central Europe and the Baltics
EAR2015564689.537802423Early-demographic dividend
EAS2015761927.287096338East Asia & Pacific
EAP2015673759.823990882East Asia & Pacific (excluding high income)

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