Identify the INCORRECT statement pertaining to Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs).
A) About 40 percent of all Americans live in the 20 largest CMSAs.
B) MSAs are integrated economic and social units with large population nuclei.
C) MSAs center on a city of 50,000 or more inhabitants and include bordering urban areas.
D) MSAs with a population of below 50,000 inhabitants are called Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Areas.
E) The U.S. Census Bureau reports data by MSA.

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MSAs with a population of below 50,000 inhabitants are actually called Micropolitan Statistical Areas, not Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Areas.

Identify the INCORRECT Statement Pertaining to Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs)