census-designated place

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Noun

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census-designated place (plural census-designated places)

  1. (US, demography) A place containing a concentration of population, defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only; it is not a municipality, but either a subset of one or spanning into several.
    Synonym: (initialism) CDP
    Coordinate terms: incorporated place, municipality, unorganized territory

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