What is the closest percentage to the number of people that live in
an urban area in the world today?

55 percent
Today, around 55 percent of the world's population is thought to be living in an urban area or city, with that figure set to rise to 68 percent over the coming decades, according to the “Population Division” report from the UN's Department of Economic and Social Affairs.

Aregion is an area of land that has common features. these features can be natural, such as climate or landscape. they can also be artificial, such as language or religion. the xinjiang uyghur autonomous region, above, is an area of china inhabited by uyghurs, a muslim group with ethnic ties to turkish people.