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What is the urban area of Paris?

For example, INSEE, the census authority of France defines the Paris urban area ("unité urbaine") as 2,845 square kilometers and the Paris metropolitan area (aire urbaine) as 17,100 square kilometers, indicating that more than 80 percent of the land area is outside the Paris urban area (See: The Evolving Urban Form: Paris11).

How many urban areas are there in the world?

Demographia World Urban Areas contains population, land area and population density for the more than 1,050 identified built-up urban areas (urban agglomerations or urbanized areas) in the world with 500,000 or more population that have been identified. The total population of these urban areas is estimated at 2.25 billion, 51.4 2percent of the ...

What is a metropolitan area?

A metropolitan area is a labor market (and a housing market). It includes a principal built-up urban area (the largest built-up urban area in the metropolitan area) as well as economically connected rural areas (and smaller urban areas) to the outside. (Figure 1).10

What is the distribution of large urban population?

Distribution of Large Urban Population by Urban Density: More than one-half of the 500,000+ urban area population lives in built-up urban areas with between 4,000 and 10,000 persons per square kilometer (approximately 10,000 to 25,000 persons per square mile).