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Clockwise from top: Milwaukee skyline from Discovery World, downtown at night along the Milwaukee Riverwalk, inside the Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee City Hall, Burns Commons in the East Side neighborhood, and the historic Mitchell Building
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| Nickname(s): Cream City, Brew City, Beer City, Brew Town, Beertown, Miltown, The Mil, MKE, The City of Festivals, Deutsch-Athen (German Athens) | |||||
 Location of Milwaukee in Milwaukee County and in the state of Wisconsin |
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 Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Location in the United States
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| Coordinates: 43°03′8″N 87°57′21″W / 43.05222°N 87.95583°W | |||||
| Country | United States | ||||
| State | Wisconsin | ||||
| Counties | Milwaukee, Washington, Waukesha | ||||
| Incorporated | January 31, 1846 | ||||
| Government | |||||
| • Type | Strong mayor-council | ||||
| • Mayor | Tom Barrett (D) | ||||
| Area | |||||
| • City | 96.84 sq mi (250.80 km2) | ||||
| • Land | 96.17 sq mi (249.09 km2) | ||||
| • Water | 0.66 sq mi (1.71 km2) | ||||
| Elevation | 617 ft (188 m) | ||||
| Population (2010) | |||||
| • City | 594,833 | ||||
| • Estimate (2016) | 595,047 | ||||
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US: 31st WI: 1st |
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| • Density | 6,191/sq mi (2,388.90/km2) | ||||
| • Urban | 1,376,476 (US: 35th) | ||||
| • Metro | 1,572,245 (US: 39th) | ||||
| • CSA | 2,043,904 (US: 29th) | ||||
| Demonym(s) | Milwaukeean | ||||
| Time zone | CST (UTC-6) | ||||
| • Summer (DST) | CDT (UTC-5) | ||||
| Zip codes | 53172, 53201, 53202, 53203, 53204, 53205, 53206, 53207, 53208, 53209, 53210, 53211, 53212, 53213, 53214, 53215, 53216, 53218, 53219, 53220, 53221, 53222, 53223, 53224, 53225, 53226, 53227, 53228, 53233, 53234, 53237, 53259, 53263, 53267, 53268, 53274, 53278, 53288, 53290, 53293, 53295 | ||||
| Area code(s) | 414 | ||||
| FIPS code | 55-53000 | ||||
| GNIS feature ID | 1577901 | ||||
| Major airport | General Mitchell International Airport (MKE) | ||||
| Website | city |
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US: 31st
Milwaukee (/mɪlˈwɔːki/, locally /məˈ-/) is the largest city in the state of Wisconsin and the fifth-largest city in the Midwestern United States. The county seat of Milwaukee County, it is on Lake Michigan's western shore. Ranked by estimated 2014 population, Milwaukee was the 31st largest city in the United States. The city's estimated population in 2015 was 600,155. Milwaukee is the main cultural and economic center of the Milwaukee metropolitan area. It is also part of the larger Milwaukee-Racine-Waukesha combined statistical area, which had an estimated population of 2,026,243 in the 2010 census. Milwaukee is the second-most densely populated metropolitan area in the Midwest, surpassed only by Chicago.
The first Europeans to pass through the area were French Catholic Jesuit missionaries, who were ministering to Native Americans, and fur traders. In 1818, the French Canadian explorer Solomon Juneau settled in the area, and in 1846, Juneau's town combined with two neighboring towns to incorporate as the city of Milwaukee. Large numbers of German immigrants arrived during the late 1840s, after the German revolutions, with Poles and other eastern European immigrants arriving in the following decades. Milwaukee is known for its brewing traditions, begun with the German immigrants.
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