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Correlation of urban land area and forest area by region

Updated: 72d ago

This scatter chart displays urban land area (km²) against forest area (km²). The data is about regions.

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  • Forest Area (km²): Forest area is land under natural or planted stands of trees of at least 5 meters in situ, whether productive or not, and excludes tree stands in agricultural production systems (for example, in fruit plantations and agroforestry systems) and trees in urban parks and gardens.
  • 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.

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