“Urbanized” or “Urbanised”—What's the difference?

Usage by country

Where each spelling is used

Of the 12 countries below, 4 prefer “urbanized” and 3 prefer “urbanised”. Usage levels are out of 100; the more common spelling in each country is in bold.

Usage level out of 100 (if available).
Country	urbanized	urbanised	Preference
United States	98	2	“urbanized”
United Kingdom	25	75	“urbanised”
India	37	63	“urbanised”
Philippines	100	0	“urbanized”
Canada	100	0	“urbanized”
Australia	19	81	“urbanised”
Liberia	0	0	Not enough data
Ireland	100	0	“urbanized”
New Zealand	0	0	Not enough data
Jamaica	0	0	Not enough data
Trinidad & Tobago	0	0	Not enough data
Guyana	0	0	Not enough data

Usage

Examples in context

Real sentences for each spelling. Hover an example to copy it.

“urbanized”

…is one of the most urbanized in the country, along with…
…farmland which have since been urbanized.
…terrestrial surface of the contiguous urbanized portions of Orleans, Jefferson, and…
…of Sarangani and the highly urbanized city of General Santos), and…
…eastern Ontario, mostly in more urbanized areas (Kingston, Belleville, Hawkesbury).
…and Padierna Miguel Hidalgo are urbanized areas where the sprawl of…
…depopulated as people have become urbanized.
…independent cities, classified as highly urbanized cities, and one independent municipality:
The urbanized areas account for only about…
…increases as countries become more urbanized and in many parts of…

“urbanised”

Since the Noongar are largely urbanised or concentrated in major regional…
However, she found that in urbanised and industrialised areas the pattern…
The urbanised area only covers 337 km2,…
…break out, especially in more urbanised centres.
…the UK has long been urbanised.
…the emergence of parks in urbanised cities and eventually expanded to…
…to contest Katherine, essentially the urbanised portion of his old seat.
…based on the most heavily urbanised areas, which do not have…
The area was extensively urbanised during the 1960s and 1970s.
…on more highly populated and urbanised areas in Helmand province.

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