Imaging · dataset · 2025
Historical Urban Population: 3700 BC - AD 2000
Listed in NASA Data Portal
The Historical Urban Population, 3700 BC - AD 2000, originally developed by the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, is the first spatially explicit global data set containing location and size of urban populations over the last 6,000 years.
Description
The data set was created by digitizing, transcribing, and geocoding historical, archaeological, and census-based urban population data. Each data point consists of a city name, latitude, longitude, year, population, and a reliability ranking to assess the geographic uncertainty of each data point.
Despite spatial and temporal gaps, no other geocoded data set at this resolution exists. It can therefore be used to investigate long-term historical urbanization trends and patterns, evaluate the current era of urbanization, and build a richer record of urban population through history.
Links
Get the data
- Google Scholar search results scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.7927%2FH4ZG6QBX ↗
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- Get a related visualization sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/downloads/maps/urbanspatial/urbanspatial-hist-urban-pop-3700bc… ↗
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- View documentation related to this dataset sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/data/set/urbanspatial-hist-urban-pop-3700bc-ad2000/docs ↗
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- View documentation related to this dataset sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/data/set/urbanspatial-hist-urban-pop-3700bc-ad2000 ↗
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Where it is published
- NASA Data Portal dataset page data.nasa.gov/dataset/historical-urban-population-3700-bc-ad-2000 ↗
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Catalogue records · 1
- CKAN API data.nasa.gov/api/3/action/package_show?id=49b5279d-b5c4-4160-9779-2453bc727… ↗
metadata API · from data nasa gov
Topics
- From keywords
- Astronomy & Astrophysics · Earth & Environmental Science · Ocean & Atmospheric Science · Physics · Social Science
- Inferred from text
- Human geography 74%
Provenance · 1 source records, 12 field assertions
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| NASA Data Portal | 49b5279d-b5c4-4160-9779-2453bc727f51 | 12 d ago | JSON v1 |
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