The United States Office of Management and Budget The Office of Management and Budget is a Cabinet-level office, and is the largest office within the Executive Office of the President of the United States (EOP). The current OMB chairman is Peter Orszag and was appointed by President Barack Obama on the 15th December 2008 and confirmed by the Senate on the 20th January 2009 has defined 363 Metropolitan Statistical Areas In the United States, the Office of Management and Budget has produced a formal definition of metropolitan areas. These are referred to as "Metropolitan Statistical Areas" (MSAs) and "Combined Statistical Areas" (CSAs). An earlier version of the MSA was the "Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area" (SMSA). MSAs are[1] (MSAs) for the United States of America The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the. The OMB defines a Metropolitan Statistical Area as one or more adjacent counties In the United States, a county is a local level of government below the state . Counties are used in 48 of the 50 states, while Louisiana is divided into parishes and Alaska into boroughs. These are considered "county-equivalents", as are some cities not designated as part of a county. The U.S. Census Bureau lists 3,140 counties or or county equivalents A county-equivalent in the United States is a term used by the federal government to describe one of the two following state subdivisions: that have at least one urban core area List of United States Urban areas is a list of urban areas in the United States as defined by the U.S. Census Bureau ordered according to their 2000 Census populations. In the table, UA refers to "urbanized area" and UC refers to "urban cluster" (urban areas with population less than 50,000). The list includes urban areas with of at least 50,000 population, plus adjacent territory that has a high degree of social and economic integration with the core as measured by commuting ties.[2]
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