Description:

Census Metropolitan Area (CMA). A census metropolitan area (CMA) is a very large urban area (known as the urban core), together with adjacent urban and rural areas (known as urban and rural fringes) that have a high degree of social and economic integration with the urban core. A CMA has an urban core population of at least 100,000, based on the previous census. Once an area becomes a CMA, it is retained as a CMA even if the population of its urban core declines below 100,000. All CMAs are subdivided into census tracts. A CMA may be consolidated with adjacent census agglomerations (CAs) if they are socially and economically integrated. This new grouping is known as a consolidated CMA and the component CMA and CA(s) are known as the primary census metropolitan area (PCMA) and primary census agglomeration(s) (PCA(s). A CMA may not be consolidated with another CMA.

Datasets:

The Data are available in Arc/Info(r) Export format (*.E00), or in MapInfo(r) format in the Lambert Projection or in the Latitude / Longitude Projection. In the DRC the following products are stored: