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 New England, where they are composed of cities and towns instead. See also metropolitan area, metropolitan statistical area, primary metropolitan statistical area, standard consolidated area, standard consolidated statistical area, standard metropolitan area, standard metropolitan statistical area.

Consolidation A combination of two or more governmental units. The units may be at the same or different levels of government. See also consolidated city, consolidated government, merger.

Construction (census) See economic census.

Conterminous States The coterminous 48 States and the District of Columbia; that is, the United States excluding Alaska and Hawaii.

Contiguous Descriptive of geographic areas that are adjacent to one another, sharing either a common boundary or point. See also adjacent, conjoint.

Contract block area An area for which a local government paid the Census Bureau to collect and publish decennial census data at the block level because the area was not included automatically in the block-numbering program for a decennial census. This kind of area did not exist for the 1990 census, because the Census Bureau automatically collected and published census block-level data nationwide. See also census block, free block area.

Corporate corridor A narrow strip of land, generally consisting of all or part of the right-of-way of a road, proposed road, power line, or similar feature, that is part of an incorporated place; a corridor also may exist without relation to any accompanying visible feature.

Coterminous A term descriptive of geographic entities that are contiguous with one another and are contained within the same boundaries; for example, the coterminous 48 States and the District of Columbia. See also conterminous States. G-16Glossary