Sacramento, Californie
Sacramento | |
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City of Sacramento | |
Aerial View o Dountoun Sacramento | |
Eik-name(s): River City, Sac-Town, Sac, Sacto, The Indomitable City, Camellia City of the World, City of Trees, The Big Tomato, The Capitol City, Cap-City | |
Motto(s): Urbs Indomita (Indomitable Ceety) | |
Location o Sacramento in Sacramento Coonty, Californie | |
Coordinates: 38°33′20″N 121°28′8″W / 38.55556°N 121.46889°W | |
Kintra | Unitit States |
State | Californie |
Coonty | Sacramento Coonty |
Govrenment | |
• Teep | Cooncil–manager |
• Mayor | Darrell Steinberg |
Area | |
• State Caipital | 259.273 km2 (100.105 sq mi) |
• Laund | 253.600 km2 (97.915 sq mi) |
• Water | 5.673 km2 (2.190 sq mi) 2.19% |
Elevation | 8 m (25 ft) |
Population (2012) | |
• State Caipital | 472,178[1] |
• Density | 1861.9/km2 (4822.3/sq mi) |
• Urban | 1.44 million |
• Metro | 2.6 million |
• Demonym | Sacramentan |
Time zone | UTC−8 (PST) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC−7 (PDT) |
ZIP code | 942xx, 958xx |
Area code(s) | 916 |
FIPS code | 06-64000 |
GNIS featur ID | 1659564 |
Website | http://www.cityofsacramento.org/ |
Sacramento is the caipital ceety o the U.S. state o Californie an the coonty seat o Sacramento Coonty. It is locatit at the confluence o the Sacramento River an the American River in the northren portion o Californie's expansive Central Valley. Wi a population o 486,488 at the 2010 census, it is the saxth-lairgest ceety in Californie. Sacramento is the core cultural an economic centre o the Sacramento metropolitan aurie which includes seiven coonties; wi an estimatit population o 2,527,123. Its metropolitan aurie is the fowert lairgest in Californie efter the Greater Los Angeles Aurie, San Francisco Bay Aurie, an the San Diego metropolitan aurie as well as the 22nt lairgest in the Unitit States. A ceety attainin global status, Sacramento wis citit bi Time magazine as Americae's maist ethnically an racially integratit ceety in 2002.
Sister ceeties
[eedit | eedit soorce]Kintra | Ceety | Year o Pairtnership |
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Philippines | Manila | 8 Juin 1961 |
Japan | Matsuyama | 17 Mairch 1981 |
Brazil | Rio Verde, Goias | 9 August 1983 |
Fowkrepublic o Cheenae | Jinan | 16 October 1984 |
New Zealand | Hamilton | 6 December 1988 |
Swisserland | Liestal | 21 Mairch 1989 |
Moldovae | Chişinău | 12 December 1989 |
Sooth Korea | Yongsan-gu | 22 Julie 1997 |
Nicaragua | San Juan de Oriente | 28 Februar 2006 |
Philippines | Pasay | 28 Februar 2006 |
Palestine | Bethlehem | 15 December 2009 |
Israel | Ashkelon | 15 August 2012 |
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]Freemit airtins
[eedit | eedit soorce]Wikimedia Commons haes media relatit tae Sacramento, California. |
- Offeecial wabsteid
- Offeecial tourism wabsteid frae the Sacramento Convention an Visitors Bureau
- Old Sacramento – Offeecial wabsteid