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The World’s Largest Urban Area

Rapid growth in several cities along the Pearl River Delta has made a Chinese megacity larger and more populous than any other urban area in the world.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Caption by Adam Voiland.

Published September 15, 2015
Data acquired November 24, 1988 - November 16, 2014

Sources:
Landsat 5 > TM
Landsat 8 > OLI