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The populations of both metropolitan and nonmetropolitan territories increased between 1990 and 1998, with strong growth in the South and West, particularly in the South Atlantic and Mountain Divisions. Among metropolitan areas of different sizes, medium-sized areas grew the fastest. Within metropolitan areas, the population outside central cities grew faster than the population inside them.
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