[Image:Knoxville-Sevierville-La Follette CSA.png|thumb|right|300px|Location of the Knoxville-Sevierville-La Follette CSA (as of 2010) and its components: ]] The
Knoxville metropolitan area is the
metropolitan area centered on
Knoxville, Tennessee, the third largest city in Tennessee and the largest city in
East Tennessee. In 2014, the KMSA had an estimated population of 857,585. The KMSA is, in turn, the central component of the Knoxville-Sevierville-La Follette Combined Statistical Area, which, in 2013, had a population of 1,096,961.