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  2. List of United States urban areas - Wikipedia

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    Since urban areas are composed of census blocks and not cities, counties, or county-equivalents, urban area boundaries may consist of partial areas of these political units. Urban areas are distinguished from rural areas: any area not part of an urban area is considered to be rural by the Census Bureau. The list in this article includes urban ...

  3. Urban area - Wikipedia

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    Since urban areas are composed of census blocks and not cities, counties, or county-equivalents, urban area boundaries may consist of partial areas of these political units. Urban areas are distinguished from rural areas: any area not part of an urban area is considered to be rural by the Census Bureau. [68]

  4. Metropolitan statistical area - Wikipedia

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    CBSAs are delineated on the basis of a central contiguous area of relatively high population density, known as an urban area. The counties containing the core urban area are known as the "central counties" of the CBSA; these are defined as having at least 50% of their population living in urban areas of at least 10,000 in population. [8]

  5. US Census Bureau redefines meaning of ‘urban’ America - AOL

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    More than 1,100 cities, towns and villages in the U.S. lost their status as urban areas on Thursday as the The post US Census Bureau redefines meaning of ‘urban’ America appeared first on TheGrio.

  6. List of California urban areas - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of urban areas in the California as defined by the U.S. Census Bureau, ordered according to their 2010 estimated Census populations.In the table, UA refers to "urbanized area" (urban areas with population over 50,000) and UC refers to "urban cluster" (urban areas with population less than 50,000).

  7. Urbanization in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Maine's highest urban percentage ever was less than 52% (in 1950), and today less than 39% of the state's population resides in urban areas. Vermont is currently the least urban U.S. state; its urban percentage (35.1%) is less than half of the United States average (81%). [2] Maine and Vermont were less urban than the United States average in ...

  8. Metropolitan area - Wikipedia

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    Metropolitan areas in the United States are delineated around the core of a core based statistical area which is defined as an urban area, (this is different than the urban core) and consists of central and outlying counties, as the terms central city and suburb are no longer used by the census bureau due to suburbanization of employment.

  9. Urbanization - Wikipedia

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    Urbanization over the past 500 years [12] A global map illustrating the first onset and spread of urban centres around the world, based on. [13]From the development of the earliest cities in Indus valley civilization, Mesopotamia and Egypt until the 18th century, an equilibrium existed between the vast majority of the population who were engaged in subsistence agriculture in a rural context ...