Urban Places: Statistical Definitions
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Virtually all countries report population and other data as urban or rural, but specific definitions vary greatly as to the geographic units used and how populous an urban place must be. Many countries recognize urban as including overflow and suburbs outside municipal limits, giving rise to additional definitions such as urbanized areas and metropolitan areas. This article discusses the US definition of urban and its evolution, summarizes the US metropolitan definition, and compares the urban definitions of the 40 countries with the largest urban populations, with special attention to China.
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