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The Knoxville metropolitan area is the metropolitan area centered on Knoxville, Tennessee, the third largest city in Tennessee and the largest city in East Tennessee. In 2014, the KMSA had an estimated population of 857,585.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Current Estimates Data )〕 The KMSA is, in turn, the central component of the Knoxville-Sevierville-La Follette Combined Statistical Area, which, in 2013, had a population of 1,096,961. ==History of federal government metropolitan area definitions== U.S. federal government definitions of the Knoxville metropolitan area have varied over time. The metropolitan area was first defined in 1947 as the Knoxville Standard Metropolitan Area, and consisted of Anderson, Blount and Knox counties. Union was added in 1970, and the area was renamed the Knoxville Standard Metropolitan Area. Grainger, Jefferson and Sevier counties were added in 1980, and it became the Knoxville Metropolitan Statistical Area. Grainger and Jefferson counties lost metropolitan status in 1990. Loudon County was added in 2000. Grainger county was re-added in 2013. As defined at the time of the 2010 U.S. Census, the Knoxville area was the third largest Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) in Tennessee and consisted of five Tennessee counties: *Anderson *Blount *Knox *Loudon *Union The population of this MSA, as recorded in the 2010 Census, was 698,030, making it the 73rd largest metropolitan statistical area in the United States.〔(Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Areas ), U.S. Census Bureau〕 The Knoxville MSA was the chief component of the larger Knoxville-Sevierville-La Follette TN Combined Statistical Area (CSA), which also included the Morristown Metropolitan Statistical Area (Hamblen, Grainger, and Jefferson counties) and the Sevierville (Sevier County), La Follette (Campbell County), Harriman (Roane County), and Newport (Cocke County) Micropolitan Statistical Areas. The combined population of this CSA as of the 2000 Census was 935,659. The population of the Knoxville-Sevierville-La Follette Combined Statistical Area was 1,055,086 according to the 2010 Census, representing a growth of 11.32 percent since the 2000 Census. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Knoxville metropolitan area」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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