Major Cities
The "Major Cities" layer is derived from the "World Cities" dataset provided by ArcGIS Data and Maps group as part of the global data layers made available for public use.
"Major cities" layer specifically contains National and Provincial capitals that have the highest population within their respective country. Cities were filtered based on the STATUS (“National capital”, “National and provincial capital”, “Provincial capital”, “National capital and provincial capital enclave”, and “Other”). Majority of these cities within larger countries have been filtered at the highest levels of POP_CLASS (“5,000,000 and greater” and “1,000,000 to 4,999,999”). However, China for example, was filtered with cities over 11 million people due to many highly populated cities. Population approximations are sourced from US Census and UN Data.
Credits: ESRI, CIA World Factbook, GMI, NIMA, UN Data, UN Habitat, US Census Bureau
Disclaimer: The designations employed and the presentation of material at this site do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Secretariat of the United Nations concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries.
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- Date ( Publication )
- 2021-03-12
- Status
- Completed
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- Keywords ( Theme )
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- Cities
- Capitals
- Towns
- Place
- Population
- Keywords ( Place )
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- World
- Access constraints
- Copyright
- Use constraints
- otherRestictions
- Other constraints
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 IGO (CC BY-NC- SA 3.0 IGO)
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Metadata language
- en
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Location
- Begin date
- 2021-03-11
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- Reference system identifier
- WGS 1984
- Distribution format
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ESRI Shapefile
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1.0
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ESRI Shapefile
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1.0
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- OnLine resource
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World Cities
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WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
)
World Cities layer from ArcGIS Data & Maps
- OnLine resource
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ESRI - ArcGIS Data and Maps
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WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
)
ArcGIS Data and Maps group background and available datasets.
- OnLine resource
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majorcities
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OGC:WMS-1.3.0-http-get-map
)
MajorCities
gmd:MD_Metadata
- File identifier
- 6e7dcf4c-56a7-47f2-b82b-081edb054f58 XML
- Metadata language
- en
- Character set
- UTF8
- Date stamp
- 2022-11-08T10:23:16
- Metadata standard name
- ISO 19115:2003/19139
- Metadata standard version
- 1.0
Overviews
Spatial extent
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