Urban land area | Israel

Urban land area of Israel in 2015 amounted to 2 744 km², which is 22.83% more than in 2000, when it was  2 234 km². Since 1990, the area of urban land has increased in 1.59 times. The minimum area of urbanized land recorded in 1990, with a value of 1 731 km².
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 dataset 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).