Land area and urban land area of countries per year in the United States (Historical)
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This dataset is about countries in the United States per year. It has 4 columns: country, date, land area, and urban land area. The data is ordered by date (descending).
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There are 4 fields used in this dataset (including filters):
Date: Year period during which the metrics are collected. This field is expressed in year.
Land Area: 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. This field is expressed in km².
Urban Land Area: 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 field is expressed in km².