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.
- Publisher
- World Bank
- Unit
- —
- Cadence
- Annual
- Series
- 215
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Updated
- 2026-09-06
Provenance
Who produced these figures, as World Bank declares it — not inferred, and each line says which published field it was read from.
Produced by
CIESIN, Columbia University
Low Elevation Coastal Zone (LECZ) Urban-Rural Population and Land Area Estimates, Version 2, Center For International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) - Columbia University, uri: https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/data/catalog/sedac-ciesin-sedac-lecz-urplaev2-2.00, publisher: NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC), date published: 2013
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World Development Indicators
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Latest observations
| Country | Period | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Afghanistan | 2015 | 3993.84 | sq km |
| Albania | 2015 | 827.69 | sq km |
| Algeria | 2015 | 9357.10 | sq km |
| American Samoa | 2015 | 23.44 | sq km |
| Andorra | 2015 | 30.94 | sq km |
| Angola | 2015 | 2991.35 | sq km |
| Antigua and Barbuda | 2015 | 31.86 | sq km |
| Argentina | 2015 | 11,433 | sq km |
| Armenia | 2015 | 922.34 | sq km |
| Aruba | 2015 | 97.34 | sq km |
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