Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) and Census Agglomeration (CA)
A CMA or CA is delineated using adjacent municipalities (census subdivisions) as building blocks. These census subdivisions (CSDs) are included in the CMA or CA if they meet at least one of the following rules. The rules are ranked in order of priority.
Urban Core 
Forward Commuting
Reverse Commuting
Spatial Contiguity
Historical Comparability.
A series of maps shows how a city and its surrounding municipalities (CSDs) form
a CMA according to the delineation rules.
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Geography
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