Global urban boundaries data (1990-2018)
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China, Guangzhou
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数据描述
The dataset consists of 7 vector files compressed into a zip file, corresponding to the urban boundaries of 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005, 2010, 2015, and 2018.
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