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Distribution of total rural land area by region

Updated: 64d ago

This bar chart displays rural land area (km²) by region using the aggregation sum. The data is about countries.

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This chart uses 2 fields, including filters:

  • Region: Region the country is situated within.
  • Rural Land Area (km²): 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.

This chart is based on data from: SIPRI, World Bank, Reporters Without Borders.

This chart can be used under the CC BY 4.0 license.