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Correlation of urban land area and land area by year in the United States

Updated: 97d ago

This scatter chart displays urban land area (km²) against land area (km²) in the United States. The data is about countries per year.

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This chart uses 3 fields, including filters:

  • Country: Name of country.
  • Land Area (km²): 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.
  • 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.

This chart is based on data from: World Bank.

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