Urban land area (sq. km) - Country Ranking - Asia

Definition: 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.

Source: Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)/Columbia University. 2013. Urban-Rural Population and Land Area Estimates Version 2. Palisades, NY: NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC). http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.e

See also: Thematic map, Time series comparison

Find indicator:
Rank Country Value Year
1 China 380,679.30 2010
2 India 222,688.20 2010
3 Russia 187,538.10 2010
4 Japan 108,678.20 2010
5 Iran 69,242.77 2010
6 Turkey 44,090.16 2010
7 Indonesia 42,076.83 2010
8 Saudi Arabia 41,223.74 2010
9 Thailand 36,597.02 2010
10 Pakistan 35,871.94 2010
11 Korea 21,922.02 2010
12 Malaysia 15,564.95 2010
13 Iraq 12,429.92 2010
14 Syrian Arab Republic 11,955.20 2010
15 Bangladesh 11,125.39 2010
16 Philippines 10,817.37 2010
17 United Arab Emirates 8,568.16 2010
18 Vietnam 7,589.04 2010
19 Myanmar 6,960.02 2010
20 Israel 6,399.02 2010
21 Oman 5,651.35 2010
22 Yemen 4,703.40 2010
23 Sri Lanka 4,016.15 2010
24 Kuwait 3,942.30 2010
25 Georgia 3,602.76 2010
26 Jordan 3,383.97 2010
27 Dem. People's Rep. Korea 2,343.61 2010
28 Lebanon 2,317.42 2010
29 Qatar 1,495.15 2010
30 Cambodia 1,152.06 2010
31 Lao PDR 1,018.75 2010
32 Brunei 1,017.07 2010
33 Hong Kong SAR, China 901.54 2010
34 Singapore 565.56 2010
35 Bahrain 549.28 2010
36 Timor-Leste 359.42 2010
37 Macao SAR, China 17.72 2010

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Statistical Concept and Methodology: The Global Rural-Urban Mapping Project, Version 1 (GRUMPv1) urban extent grid distinguishes urban and rural areas 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 dataset is produced by the Columbia University Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) in collaboration with the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), The World Bank, and Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT)

Aggregation method: Sum

Periodicity: Annual