See also
See also the next tab, Statistics.
International City Data
- Africapolis(Online only; open access)
"Produced by the OECD Sahel and West Africa Club, Africapolis.org is the only comprehensive and standardised geospatial database on cities and urbanisation dynamics in Africa. Combining demographic sources, satellite and aerial imagery and other cartographic sources, it is designed to enable comparative and long-term analyses of urban dynamics - covering 7500 agglomerations in 50 countries." Description from database home page. - Cities and Buildings DatabaseVisual data.
"A collection of digitized images of buildings and cities drawn from across time and throughout the world, available to students, researchers and educators on the web." --Home page. - DemographiaRich data in a variety of topics on large urban areas (e.g. urban development, urban land use policies) as well as census data from different countries.
- MetropolisThe web site of an international association of major metropolitan cities and regions (population over one million) worldwide. Provides data (direct link: https://indicators.metropolis.org/) about urban agglomerations, city population, and urban growth as well as a number of links to urban-related web sites. No U.S. cities are members, but the rest of the world is well represented.
- World Urbanization Prospects: Country ProfilesDeveloped by the United Nations Population Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Provides longitudinal data on urbanization on the country level.