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Sacramento (California)

Sacramento, California
State capital and charter city
City of Sacramento
Sacramento Capitol.jpg Sac RT Siemens.jpg City Skyline Raley Field.JPG
Sacramento Skyline (cropped).jpg
Tower Bridge Sacramento edit.jpg Sacramento Memorial Auditorium
Clockwise from top left: California State Capitol, Sacramento RT Light Rail train through Midtown, Raley Field—View from West Sacramento, Downtown Sacramento skyline, Sacramento Memorial Auditorium, Sacramento Tower Bridge
Flag of Sacramento, California
Flag
Official seal of Sacramento, California
Seal
Nickname(s): "City of Trees", "Sactown", "Sac", "Sacto"
Motto: Latin: Urbs Indomita
(English: "Indomitable City")
Location of Sacramento in Sacramento County, California
Location of Sacramento in Sacramento County, California
Sacramento, California is located in California
Sacramento, California
Sacramento, California
Sacramento, California is located in the US
Sacramento, California
Sacramento, California
Location in the United States
Coordinates: 38°33′20″N 121°28′08″W / 38.55556°N 121.46889°W / 38.55556; -121.46889Coordinates: 38°33′20″N 121°28′08″W / 38.55556°N 121.46889°W / 38.55556; -121.46889
Country  United States of America
State  California
County

Sacramento


Region Sacramento Valley
CSA Sacramento-Roseville
MSA Sacramento–Roseville–Arden-Arcade
Incorporated February 27, 1850
Chartered 1920
Named for Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist
Government
 • Type City Council
 • Body Sacramento City Council
 • Mayor Darrell Steinberg
 • City Council
Area
 • City 100.105 sq mi (259.273 km2)
 • Land 97.915 sq mi (253.600 km2)
 • Water 2.190 sq mi (5.673 km2)  2.19%
Elevation 30 ft (9 m)
Population (April 1, 2010)
 • City 466,488
 • Estimate (2014) 485,199
 • Density 4,700/sq mi (1,800/km2)
 • Urban 1,723,634
 • Metro 2,149,127
 • CSA 2,414,783
Demonym(s) Sacramentan
Time zone Pacific (UTC−8)
 • Summer (DST) PDT (UTC−7)
ZIP codes 942xx, 958xx
Area code 916
FIPS code 06-64000
GNIS feature IDs 1659564, 2411751
Website cityofsacramento.org

Sacramento

Sacramento (/ˌsækrəˈmɛnt/; Spanish: [sakɾaˈmento]) is the capital city of the U.S. state of California and the seat of Sacramento County. It is at the confluence of the Sacramento River and the American River in the northern portion of California's expansive Central Valley. Its estimated 2014 population of 485,199 made it the sixth-largest city in California, and the 35th largest city in the United States. Sacramento is the cultural and economic core of the Sacramento metropolitan area, which includes seven counties with a 2010 population of 2,414,783. Its metropolitan area is the fourth largest in California after the Greater Los Angeles area, the San Francisco Bay Area, and the San Diego metropolitan area, and is the 27th largest in the United States. In 2002, the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University conducted for Time magazine named Sacramento "America's Most Diverse City".


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