* Not necessarily equivalent to the Census definition of the metropolitan area. ** This is the metropolitan area of Detroit within US borders. A larger metropolitan area containing the Windsor, Ontario area is used internationally. *** The Bay Area is a much larger area than the OMB's rather limited MSA, corresponding more closely to the San Jose - San Francisco - Oakland Combined Statistical Area
The areas were ranked by their ambience (the cultural offerings in the city), housing, economy, transportation, education, health care, crime, recreation, and climate.
Ethnic residential concentrations in UnitedStatesmetropolitanareas.
The geography of entrepreneurship in the New Yorkmetropolitanarea.
In the UnitedStates, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has produced a formal definition of metropolitanareas, which are organized around county boundaries (except in New England, where cities and towns are more significant than counties as geographical and political units.) These are referred to as "Metropolitan Statistical Areas" (MAs).
If an MA is large enough and can be subdivided into meaningful sub-metropolitan areas, then the MA is considered a "Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Area" (CMSA), with each subdivision called a "Primary Metropolitan Statistical Area" (PMSA).
The largest MAs in the UnitedStates are all CMSAs.
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