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    Historical Urban Population: 3700 BC - AD 2000

    Metadata Updated: February 22, 2025

    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. 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.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. Non-Federal: This dataset is covered by different Terms of Use than Data.gov. License: No license information was provided.

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    https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2016.34

    Dates

    Metadata Created Date February 22, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date February 22, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from nasa test json

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date February 22, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date February 22, 2025
    Publisher SEDAC
    Maintainer
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    Data First Published 2018-05-04
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2025-02-19
    Category USPAT, geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
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    Harvest Source Title nasa test json
    Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.7927/H4ZG6QBX
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -180.0 -60.0 180.0 85.0
    Program Code 026:001
    Related Documents https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2016.34
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 570d0829f2f04dd36b99f8bebe182da77895ec9c92161de5eb179c685f315c13
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 1700-01-01T00:00:00Z/2000-12-31T00:00:00Z

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