Exploring the general distribution characteristics and evolution rule of urban land use efficiency (ULUE) is of great significance for the efficient integration between urban land use system and the external environment. Most of the existing literature focuses on the existence of differences in ULUE between regions of mainland China, and rarely pays attention to the measurement of the regional differences of ULUE. This study puts the indicators on environmental pollution into the evaluation index system of ULUE and employs a non-radial, non-angular model of slack-based measure (SBM) to measure...