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 contains information about the land and water area of the place, and an internal point of latitude and longitude displayed in decimal degrees rather than minutes and seconds. In addition, the 1980 GICS publication showed whether census blocks existed for the individual areas; this was not necessary for the 1990 census product because by 1990, the Census Bureau had extended census block coverage to the entire Nation. Places9-33