Editing Suburb (section)

===North America===
In the [[United States]] and [[Canada]], ''suburb'' can refer either to an outlying residential area of a city or town or to a separate municipality or [[unincorporated area]] outside a town or city.{{citation needed|date=December 2021}}<ref>“The country lying immediately outside a town or city; more particularly, those residential parts belonging to a town or city that lie immediately outside and adjacent to its walls or boundaries” (Oxford English Dictionary 2011a; McManus and Ethington 2007, 319- 320).</ref>

Although a majority of Americans regard themselves as residents of suburban communities, the federal government of the United States has no formal definition for what constitutes a ''suburb'' in the United States, leaving its precise meaning disputed.<ref>{{cite news |last=Montgomery |first=David |date=7 July 2020 |title=How to Tell If You Live in the Suburbs |newspaper=Bloomberg.com |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-07/how-to-define-american-suburbs}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Brasuell |first=James |date=November 21, 2018 |title=According to the Federal Government, the Suburbs Don't Exist |url=https://www.planetizen.com/news/2018/11/101632-according-federal-government-suburbs-dont-exist |website=Planetizen}}</ref>

In Canada, the term may also be used in the British sense, especially as cities annex formerly outlying areas.{{citation needed|date=December 2021}}