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Exercise

Find the area of the Urban Residents neighborhood

How big is the Urban Residents neighborhood?

Instructions

100 XP
  • Print the urban polygon and notice the units of each longitude/latitude pair.
  • Create urban_poly_3857 by calling to_crs() on urban_polygon and print the head again. Notice the units of each longitude/latitude pair have changed.
  • Print the area of urban_poly_3857. Remember to divide by 10**6 to get kilometers squared.