World Urban Areas, 1:50 million (2012)

Description:

This polygon shapefile contains the boundaries of urban areas with dense areas of human habitation worldwide derived from 2002-2003 MODIS satellite data at 1 km. resolution. These data are represented at 1:50,000,000 scale. This layer is part of the Natural Earth Collection (v.2.0.0). Natural Earth is a public domain map dataset available at 1:10, 1:50 and 1:110 million scales. Featuring tightly integrated vector and raster data, with Natural Earth you can make a variety of visually pleasing, well-crafted maps with cartography or GIS software. Kelso, N. V. and Patterson, T. (2012). Made with Natural Earth, online at http://www.naturalearthdata.com.

Creator:

Patterson, Tom and Kelso, Nathaniel Vaughn

Publisher:

North American Cartographic Information Society

Provider:

Stanford

Collection:

Natural earth

Resource Class:

Datasets

Resource Type:

Polygon data

Subject:

Countries, Cities and towns, Capitals (Cities), Metropolitan areas, Urban density, Population statistics, Boundaries, and Society

Temporal Coverage:

2012

Date Issued:

2012

Spatial Coverage:

Earth (Planet)

Access Rights:

Public

Format:

Shapefile

More details at:

https://purl.stanford.edu/qr301kw2843