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Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas

Scope note

Areas, used mainly for census and federal funding allocation, having a dominant central city with a combined minimum population of 50,000 and with a surrounding urbanized community that is economically and socially integrated with the central city. DOP

Term type

AAT

Getty AAT term number

3000132660

Broader Terms used

<census districts>

Created

13yrs ago

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