World Urban Areas, 1:50 million (2012)

Author(s):: Patterson, Tom and Kelso, Nathaniel Vaughn
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.
Publisher:: North American Cartographic Information Society
Place(s):: Earth (Planet)
Subject(s):: Countries, Cities and towns, Capitals (Cities), Cities and towns, Metropolitan areas, Urban density, Population statistics, Boundaries, and Society
Year:: 2012
Held by:: Stanford
More details at: http://purl.stanford.edu/qr301kw2843