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Individual Dataset Description for
31. World cities population

Conditions of use: These datasets may be used freely for educational or non-profit purposes, provided that proper credit is given to GRID-Arendal and to the original data source(s).

Region: Global
Sub-Region:
Theme: Human population 		Download help
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Description: The database contains head counts for 3000 cities world-wide which either
have a population of over 100,000 or are capitals of their nation state.
Listed are the geographical location of the cities and their population
sizes.
Each record in the data base contains details of the city name, country
name, latitude and longtitude of the city, its population at a defined
time, the population of the urban agglomeration and the data compilation
method.
SEE INCLUDED TXT FILE FOR LIST OF ATTRIBUTE
Data Type: GIS. Vector
Processing comments: WCPD is an Arc/Info point coverage. It has no projection as the cities are located on the basis of their latitude and longitude. The coordinates were assigned on the basis of gazetteers produced by The Times, by the Permanent Committee on Geographical Names and by other sources or by direct reference to maps.
Production date: 1990
Data Features: Point

Map Area:
West Bounding
East Bounding
North Bounding
South Bounding
-180
180
90
-90
Projection Geographic

Source(s): Source name:   UN Demographic Yearbook 1987. 
Type:  Book. 
By:  United Nation.
Compiled by: ,  Birkbeck College, Univ. of London.

London.   UK

Substance Quality Comment: The World Cities Population Database (WCPD) has been produced by the Birkbeck College of the University of London in 1990 at the request of the United Nations Environment Programme in Nairobi.
The material is primarily derived from the UN Demographic Yearbook 1987, published in 1989. For the United Kingdom the UNDY data were inadequate and replaced with the OPCS 1981 Urban Areas volume, giving cause for concern about other countries.

Original File(s) wcpd.e00    Arc/Info UNIX export format
wcpd.e00.txt    Text file (documentation)
File Size 97 KB (Pkzip) ,  98 KB (tar + gz)