Global Urban and Rural Settlements (GURS) and Global Urban Envelopes (GUE) (Global)
Liu, Huang, Fang et al.
- License
- Attribution
- Commercial
- Yes
- Format
- GeoTIFF, Shapefile
- Coverage
- Global
- Resolution
- 100 m
- Projection
- ESRI:54009
- Last updated
- Added to findgis 31 Oct 2026 · Update frequency Static
Tags
Update Notes for the Global Urban and Rural Settlements (GURS) Dataset (1990-2025), from Liu, Huang, Fang et al (GUE).
Source and attribution
- Publisher
- Liu, Huang, Fang et al.
- License
- Commercial use
- Yes
- Attribution required
- Yes
- Modification allowed
- Yes
- Redistribution allowed
- Yes
- Share-alike
- No
- Region
- Global
- Type
- Raster
- Time
- 1990–2025
- Download
- GURS v2 settlements 2025, 100 m (zip, 114 MB)GURS v2 settlements 2020, 100 m (zip, 110 MB)Global Urban Envelopes 2020 (Shapefile zip, 54.9 MB)
- Extent
- -180-9018090West, south, east, north. Approximate region extent.
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