Urban Agglomeration Area
In 2010, the Harrisburg area was combined with York and Lebanon as a urban agglomeration, or a contiguous area of continuously developed urban land, signifying a future merger with the York-Hanover MSA, which would create a combined statistical area of over 1 million people.
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