New Orleans metropolitan area
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 98 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5111-5488-6
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! New Orleans–Metairie–Kenner, or the Greater New Orleans Region (as it is often called by the Louisiana Tourism Commission) is a metropolitan area designated by the United States Census encompassing seven parishes (the Louisiana equivalent of other states' counties) in the state of Louisiana, centering on the city of New Orleans. As of the July 1, 2008 estimate, the metropolitan statistical area (MSA) had a population of 1.17 million; the combined statistical area (CSA), which adds Washington Parish, had a population of 1.18 million; and the ten-parish area (including Tangipahoa and St. James Parishes) used by GNO, Inc. (the regional chamber of commerce) had a population of 1.32 million. The metropolitan area was hit by Hurricane Katrina – once a Category 5 but a Category 3 storm at landfall – in August 2005. Within the city of New Orleans proper, multiple breaches and structural failures occurred in the system of levees and floodwalls...