Name: Global Rural-Urban Mapping Project, Version 1 (GRUMPv1): Urban Extents Grid
Creator: ESDIS
Keywords: Boundaries,Sustainability

Data at a Glance

Data Format

ASCII, Grid, PDF, PNG, WMS

Spatial Extent

N: 84 S: -56 E: 180 W: -180

Spatial Resolution

0.00833 Decimal Degrees x 0.00833 Decimal Degrees

Geographic Region

GLOBAL,

OCEANIA,

AMERICAN SAMOA,

ANGUILLA,

ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA,

ARUBA,

BAHAMAS,

BARBADOS,

BERMUDA,

BRUNEI,

CAPE VERDE,

CAYMAN ISLANDS,

COMOROS,

COOK ISLANDS,

CUBA,

CYPRUS,

DOMINICA,

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC,

FAEROE ISLANDS,

FALKLAND ISLANDS,

FIJI,

FRENCH POLYNESIA,

GRENADA,

GUADELOUPE,

GUAM,

HAITI,

INDONESIA,

ISLE OF MAN,

JAMAICA,

KIRIBATI,

MADAGASCAR,

MALAYSIA,

MALDIVES,

MALTA,

MARSHALL ISLANDS,

MARTINIQUE,

MAURITIUS,

MAYOTTE,

MICRONESIA,

MONTSERRAT,

NAURU,

NETHERLANDS ANTILLES,

NEW CALEDONIA,

NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS,

PALAU,

PAPUA NEW GUINEA,

PHILIPPINES,

PITCAIRN ISLANDS,

PUERTO RICO,

REUNION,

SAMOA,

SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE,

SEYCHELLES,

SINGAPORE,

SOLOMON ISLANDS,

SRI LANKA,

ST HELENA,

ST KITTS AND NEVIS,

ST LUCIA,

ST PIERRE AND MIQUELON,

ST VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES,

SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN,

TIMOR-LESTE,

TOKELAU,

TONGA,

TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO,

TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS,

TUVALU,

VANUATU,

VIRGIN ISLANDS,

WALLIS AND FUTUNA ISLANDS,

AFGHANISTAN,

AFRICA,

ALBANIA,

ALGERIA,

ANDORRA,

ANGOLA,

ARMENIA,

ASIA,

AUSTRALIA,

AUSTRIA,

AZERBAIJAN,

BAHRAIN,

BANGLADESH,

BELARUS,

BELGIUM,

BELIZE,

BENIN,

BHUTAN,

BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA,

BOTSWANA,

BULGARIA,

BURKINA FASO,

BURUNDI,

CAMBODIA,

CAMEROON,

CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC,

CHAD,

CHINA,

CONGO,

CONGO, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC,

COSTA RICA,

COTE D'IVOIRE,

CROATIA,

CZECHIA,

DENMARK,

DJIBOUTI,

EGYPT,

EL SALVADOR,

EQUATORIAL GUINEA,

ERITREA,

ESTONIA,

ETHIOPIA,

EUROPE,

FINLAND,

FRANCE,

GABON,

GAMBIA,

GEORGIA,

GERMANY,

GHANA,

GIBRALTAR,

GREECE,

GUATEMALA,

GUERNSEY,

GUINEA,

GUINEA-BISSAU,

HONDURAS,

HONG KONG,

HUNGARY,

ICELAND,

INDIA,

IRAN,

IRAQ,

IRELAND,

ISRAEL,

ITALY,

JAPAN,

JORDAN,

KAZAKHSTAN,

KENYA,

KUWAIT,

KYRGYZSTAN,

LAO PEOPLE'S DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC,

LATVIA,

LEBANON,

LESOTHO,

LIBERIA,

LIBYA,

LIECHTENSTEIN,

LITHUANIA,

LUXEMBOURG,

MACAU,

MALAWI,

MALI,

MAURITANIA,

MOLDOVA,

MONACO,

MONGOLIA,

MOROCCO,

MOZAMBIQUE,

MYANMAR,

NAMIBIA,

NEPAL,

NETHERLANDS,

NEW ZEALAND,

NICARAGUA,

NIGER,

NIGERIA,

NORTH AMERICA,

NORTH KOREA,

NORTH MACEDONIA,

NORWAY,

OMAN,

PAKISTAN,

PALESTINE,

PANAMA,

POLAND,

PORTUGAL,

QATAR,

ROMANIA,

RUSSIAN FEDERATION,

RWANDA,

SAN MARINO,

SAUDI ARABIA,

SENEGAL,

SERBIA,

SIERRA LEONE,

SLOVAKIA,

SLOVENIA,

SOMALIA,

SOUTH AFRICA,

SOUTH AMERICA,

SOUTH KOREA,

SPAIN,

SUDAN,

SWEDEN,

SWITZERLAND,

SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC,

TAIWAN,

TAJIKISTAN,

TANZANIA,

TOGO,

TUNISIA,

TURKEY,

TURKMENISTAN,

UGANDA,

UKRAINE,

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES,

UNITED KINGDOM,

UZBEKISTAN,

VATICAN CITY,

VIETNAM,

YEMEN,

ZAMBIA,

ZIMBABWE

Temporal Extent

1995-07-01

Coordinate System

CARTESIAN

Granule Spatial Representation

CARTESIAN

Description

The Global Rural-Urban Mapping Project, Version 1 (GRUMPv1): Urban Extents Grid distinguishes urban and rural areas based on a combination of population counts (persons), settlement points, and the presence of Nighttime Lights. Areas are defined as urban where contiguous lighted cells from the Nighttime Lights or approximated urban extents based on buffered settlement points for which the total population is greater than 5,000 persons. This data set is produced by the Columbia University Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) in collaboration with the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), The World Bank, and Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT).

Product Summary

Platforms

MODELS

Instruments

Computer

Spatial Extent

N: 84 S: -56 E: 180 W: -180

Spatial Resolution

0.00833 Decimal Degrees x 0.00833 Decimal Degrees

Geographic Region

GLOBAL,

OCEANIA,

AMERICAN SAMOA,

ANGUILLA,

ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA,

ARUBA,

BAHAMAS,

BARBADOS,

BERMUDA,

BRUNEI,

CAPE VERDE,

CAYMAN ISLANDS,

COMOROS,

COOK ISLANDS,

CUBA,

CYPRUS,

DOMINICA,

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC,

FAEROE ISLANDS,

FALKLAND ISLANDS,

FIJI,

FRENCH POLYNESIA,

GRENADA,

GUADELOUPE,

GUAM,

HAITI,

INDONESIA,

ISLE OF MAN,

JAMAICA,

KIRIBATI,

MADAGASCAR,

MALAYSIA,

MALDIVES,

MALTA,

MARSHALL ISLANDS,

MARTINIQUE,

MAURITIUS,

MAYOTTE,

MICRONESIA,

MONTSERRAT,

NAURU,

NETHERLANDS ANTILLES,

NEW CALEDONIA,

NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS,

PALAU,

PAPUA NEW GUINEA,

PHILIPPINES,

PITCAIRN ISLANDS,

PUERTO RICO,

REUNION,

SAMOA,

SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE,

SEYCHELLES,

SINGAPORE,

SOLOMON ISLANDS,

SRI LANKA,

ST HELENA,

ST KITTS AND NEVIS,

ST LUCIA,

ST PIERRE AND MIQUELON,

ST VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES,

SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN,

TIMOR-LESTE,

TOKELAU,

TONGA,

TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO,

TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS,

TUVALU,

VANUATU,

VIRGIN ISLANDS,

WALLIS AND FUTUNA ISLANDS,

AFGHANISTAN,

AFRICA,

ALBANIA,

ALGERIA,

ANDORRA,

ANGOLA,

ARMENIA,

ASIA,

AUSTRALIA,

AUSTRIA,

AZERBAIJAN,

BAHRAIN,

BANGLADESH,

BELARUS,

BELGIUM,

BELIZE,

BENIN,

BHUTAN,

BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA,

BOTSWANA,

BULGARIA,

BURKINA FASO,

BURUNDI,

CAMBODIA,

CAMEROON,

CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC,

CHAD,

CHINA,

CONGO,

CONGO, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC,

COSTA RICA,

COTE D'IVOIRE,

CROATIA,

CZECHIA,

DENMARK,

DJIBOUTI,

EGYPT,

EL SALVADOR,

EQUATORIAL GUINEA,

ERITREA,

ESTONIA,

ETHIOPIA,

EUROPE,

FINLAND,

FRANCE,

GABON,

GAMBIA,

GEORGIA,

GERMANY,

GHANA,

GIBRALTAR,

GREECE,

GUATEMALA,

GUERNSEY,

GUINEA,

GUINEA-BISSAU,

HONDURAS,

HONG KONG,

HUNGARY,

ICELAND,

INDIA,

IRAN,

IRAQ,

IRELAND,

ISRAEL,

ITALY,

JAPAN,

JORDAN,

KAZAKHSTAN,

KENYA,

KUWAIT,

KYRGYZSTAN,

LAO PEOPLE'S DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC,

LATVIA,

LEBANON,

LESOTHO,

LIBERIA,

LIBYA,

LIECHTENSTEIN,

LITHUANIA,

LUXEMBOURG,

MACAU,

MALAWI,

MALI,

MAURITANIA,

MOLDOVA,

MONACO,

MONGOLIA,

MOROCCO,

MOZAMBIQUE,

MYANMAR,

NAMIBIA,

NEPAL,

NETHERLANDS,

NEW ZEALAND,

NICARAGUA,

NIGER,

NIGERIA,

NORTH AMERICA,

NORTH KOREA,

NORTH MACEDONIA,

NORWAY,

OMAN,

PAKISTAN,

PALESTINE,

PANAMA,

POLAND,

PORTUGAL,

QATAR,

ROMANIA,

RUSSIAN FEDERATION,

RWANDA,

SAN MARINO,

SAUDI ARABIA,

SENEGAL,

SERBIA,

SIERRA LEONE,

SLOVAKIA,

SLOVENIA,

SOMALIA,

SOUTH AFRICA,

SOUTH AMERICA,

SOUTH KOREA,

SPAIN,

SUDAN,

SWEDEN,

SWITZERLAND,

SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC,

TAIWAN,

TAJIKISTAN,

TANZANIA,

TOGO,

TUNISIA,

TURKEY,

TURKMENISTAN,

UGANDA,

UKRAINE,

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES,

UNITED KINGDOM,

UZBEKISTAN,

VATICAN CITY,

VIETNAM,

YEMEN,

ZAMBIA,

ZIMBABWE

Coordinate System

CARTESIAN

Granule Spatial Representation

CARTESIAN

Temporal Extent

1995-07-01

Data Partner

Earth Science Data Information System (ESDIS)

Concept ID

c3540930317-esdis

Data State

COMPLETE

Processing Level

Published

2011-09-26

Updated

2011-09-26

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Center For International Earth Science Information Network-CIESIN-Columbia University, International Food Policy Research Institute-IFPRI, The World Bank, & Centro Internacional De Agricultura Tropical-CIAT. (2011). Global Rural-Urban Mapping Project, Version 1 (GRUMPv1): Urban Extents Grid (Version 1.00) [Data set]. Palisades, NY: NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC). https://doi.org/10.7927/H4GH9FVG Date Accessed: 2025-07-03

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