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

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 France 86,463.06 2010
2 Italy 73,540.88 2010
3 Spain 69,794.59 2010
4 Germany 62,374.20 2010
5 United Kingdom 58,698.75 2010
6 Turkey 44,090.16 2010
7 Ukraine 32,160.16 2010
8 Sweden 31,152.32 2010
9 Poland 30,501.34 2010
10 Norway 20,282.21 2010
11 Finland 20,052.17 2010
12 Greece 18,519.16 2010
13 Romania 15,594.79 2010
14 Netherlands 12,802.99 2010
15 Portugal 12,764.68 2010
16 Belgium 12,349.23 2010
17 Denmark 9,295.18 2010
18 Switzerland 7,898.15 2010
19 Belarus 7,783.03 2010
20 Bulgaria 6,678.94 2010
21 Ireland 5,638.36 2010
22 Croatia 5,302.80 2010
23 Lithuania 4,610.86 2010
24 Latvia 3,278.52 2010
25 North Macedonia 2,667.35 2010
26 Estonia 2,614.68 2010
27 Moldova 2,607.52 2010
28 Slovenia 2,509.16 2010
29 Cyprus 2,280.40 2010
30 Bosnia and Herzegovina 1,723.15 2010
31 Albania 1,689.40 2010
32 Iceland 1,023.84 2010
33 Luxembourg 801.08 2010
34 Malta 293.34 2010
35 San Marino 57.78 2010
36 Monaco 1.92 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