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Evolution of historical urban land area in the United States

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This line chart displays urban land area (km²) by date using the aggregation sum and is filtered where the country is the United States. The data is about countries per year.

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There are 3 fields used on this chart, including filters:

  • Date (year): Year period during which the metrics are collected.
  • Country: Name of country.
  • Urban Land Area (km²): 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.

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This chart is based on data from: World Bank.

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