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France
Urban land area
World Bank · 1990–2015
23,031
sq km · 2015
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Urban land area
World Bank · Urban
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.
