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A city's metropolitan area in colloquial or administrative terms may be different from its CMA as defined by Statistics Canada, resulting in differing populations. Such is the case with the Greater Toronto Area , where its metro population is notably higher than its CMA population due to its inclusion of the neighbouring Oshawa CMA to the east ...
A population centre (PC), formerly known as an urban area (UA), is any grouping of contiguous dissemination areas that has a minimum population of 1,000 and an average population density of 400 persons per square kilometre or greater. [14] For the 2011 census, urban area was renamed "population centre".
The suburbs of Johannesburg are officially [citation needed] demarcated areas within the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, South Africa. As in other Commonwealth countries, the term suburb refers to a "neighbourhood", although in South Africa most (but not all) "suburbs" have legally recognised borders (see legal definition of ...
A village is a type of incorporated municipality within the majority of the provinces and territories of Canada. As of January 1, 2012, there were 550 villages among the provinces of Alberta , British Columbia , Manitoba , New Brunswick , the Northwest Territories , Ontario , Quebec , Saskatchewan and Yukon .
After the Group Areas Act was scrapped in 1991, Johannesburg was affected by urban blight. Thousands of poor black people, who had been forbidden to live in the city proper, moved into the city from surrounding black townships like Soweto and many immigrants from economically beleaguered and wartorn African nations flooded into South Africa.
10 unincorporated areas: 6 rural cities: 1 borough: Western Australia: 104 shires: 29 cities: 8 towns: 2 internal territories that are self-governing: Australian Capital Territory: Northern Territory: 9 regional councils: wards (electoral unit) suburbs [urban] and localities [rural] 5 unincorporated areas: 3 municipalities: 3 shires: 2 cities
Canada population density map (2014). A population centre, in the context of a Canadian census, is a populated place, or a cluster of interrelated populated places, which meets the demographic characteristics of an urban area, having a population of at least 1,000 people and a population density of no fewer than 400 people per square km 2.
Greater Johannesburg's growth was largely based initially on the discovery of gold, and the urban area runs the length of the gold-bearing reef from east to west. The case for including the East and West Rand in Johannesburg, as well as Soweto, is based on a number of factors: The area shares the same dialling code, 011 and 010