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Rural area (RA)
Part A - Plain language definition:
Not applicable
Part B - Detailed definition:
Rural areas include all territory lying outside urban areas. Taken together, urban and rural areas cover all of Canada.
Rural population includes all population living in the rural fringes of census metropolitan areas (CMAs) and census agglomerations (CAs) , as well as population living in rural areas outside CMAs and CAs.
