Countries or groups of countries	Basic Local Unit	MUA	Source for MUA	FUA	Source for FUA	Source LUR
UE 28 + EFTA	Local Administrative Units - LAU2	Morphological urban areas	ESPON / DATAR 2012	Functional Urban Areas	ESPON / DATAR 2012	C. Rozenblat, UNIL-IGD
USA	Localities & towns  by entire Counties	Metropolitan and micropolitan statistical areas	US CENSUS, 2016	Combined Metropolitan Statistical areas 	US CENSUS, 2016	
Canada	Counties	-	-	Census Metropolitan Areas	Census Canada, 2012	
Brazil	Municipios	Metropolitan Areas	Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatistica.	-	-	
Russia	Urban and rural settlements by entire Municipal district	-	-	Municipal districts	Russian LURs V1 - Rogov, 2020	
India	Localities (towns & villages)	Morphological agglomerations	INDIACITIES - Swerts (2017)	Districts	Indian Statistical Institute, 2018	
China	Qu/urban districts, Xian/rural districts, and Xianjishi/district-level cities	Morphological agglomerations	CHINACITIES - Swerts (2017)	"Qu (Urban district)
Shi (cities of district level)"	National Bureau of Statistics of China, 2015	
Australia	Cities, localities and suburbs	Morphological agglomerations	OECD, 2019	Functional Urban Areas	OECD, 2019	
Japan	Municipalities (Cities, Towns, villages)	Morphological agglomerations	OECD, 2019	Functional Urban Areas	OECD, 2019	
Korea	Districts	Morphological agglomerations	OECD, 2019	Functional Urban Areas	OECD, 2019	
Mexico	Municipios	Morphological agglomerations	OECD, 2019	Functional Urban Areas	OECD, 2019	
Argentina. Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Paraguay, Uruguay, Venezuela	Municipios, districts, sectors, partidos	Morphological agglomerations	CEPAL (Comision Economica para America Latina y el Caribe, 2009), (Cuervo Gonzalez, Moura, 2018)	-	-	
						
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