Sacramento (California)

Sacramento, California
State capital and charter city
City of Sacramento
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 Seal
Nickname(s): "City of Trees", "Sactown", "Sac", "Sacto"
Motto: Latin: Urbs Indomita (English: "Indomitable City")
Location of Sacramento in Sacramento County, California
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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	Council Members Angelique Ashby Allen Warren Jeff Harris Steve Hansen Jay Schenirer Eric Guerra Rick Jennings, II Larry Carr
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 (/ˌsækrəˈmɛntoʊ/; 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".