World Bank · Urban

Morocco: Urban land area

4621.35sq km · 2015

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. Annual figures for Morocco from 1990 to 2015.

19902015

Every year

YearValue (sq km)Note
20154,621.348
20003,858.464
19903,059

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Published by World Bank, produced by CIESIN, Columbia University. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-07.

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World Bank (2026). Urban land area. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-urban-land-area (accessed 2026-11-07). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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