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This study uses remote sensing images of Nanjing from 2001, 2006, 2011, 2016, and 2021, along with socio-economic data to analyse the spatio-temporal characteristics of the city\u2019s urban expansion. Furthermore, we utilize a binary logistic regression to quantitatively analyse the driving forces in each stage. We find that from 2001 to 2021, Nanjing\u2019s urban area expanded approximately 3.97 times. Notably, the city started moving from a stage of medium-speed development to rapid development in 2006, and then slowed down and returned to medium-speed development in 2011. The urban land mainly expanded in the north, northeast, southeast, and southwest directions in a lopsided cross-shape roughly along the northwest-southeast direction; meanwhile, the city\u2019s centre of gravity continuously moved towards the southeast. Among the driving factors, neighbourhood (distance from planned commercial centres, railways, and highways), topography, and geolocation (distance from the Yangtze River, and elevation) had a greater, albeit inhibitory effect on urban expansion. 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