BalticSea:Populated Places

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Populated Places

File:Layer Populated Places.png
Layer Info
Category	Management
Subcategory	Governance
Editable	No
Data Type	Points

Description

Cities and towns with population above 100.000 inhabitants.

MSP Challenge

This information layer is for background information only.

People do live in land and might be able to have a better understanding of location by looking at the main cities on the map.

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Data Source

Adapted from naturalearthdata, acessed on July 2017.

Original Title

Populated Places, version 2.0.0

Description

"Point symbols with name attributes. Includes all admin-0 and many admin-1 capitals, major cities and towns, plus a sampling of smaller towns in sparsely inhabited regions." Retrieved from naturalearthdata on 2021-07-06

Creation Date

2012-10-12

Methodology

Reprojected the geodata layer to Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area (EPSG:3035) and clipped to area of interest. Keept only places with more than 100.000 inhabitants.