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| | '''Sacramento, California''' is the [[Capital city|capital]] of the [[United States of America|U.S.]] state of [[California (U.S. state)|California]]. Located in a long valley where the Sacramento River and American River join, in 2020 Sacramento had a population of 524,943 and its greater metropolitan area had 2,680,831 people. Sacramento is the seat of the California legislature and the Governor of California. It is also the county seat of Sacramento County. |
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| | Sacramento is the fastest-growing major city in California,<ref name=fastestgrowing /> owing to its status as the seat of state government and as a major educational hub, home of [[California State University]], Sacramento and the [[University of California]] (UC), Davis, School of Medicine and related medical centers. It is a center for healthcare, including Sutter Health and the UC Davis Medical Center, including its multiple facilities such as the its Children’s Hospital and School of Medicine. |
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| '''Sacramento, California''' is the [[capital city]] of the state of [[California]] in the [[United States of America|US]]. It is also the [[county seat]] of [[Sacramento County, California|Sacramento County]]. Located at the [[confluence]] of the [[Sacramento River|Sacramento]] and [[American River]]s in [[Northern California]]'s [[Sacramento Valley]], Sacramento's 2020 population of 524,943 makes it the fourth-most populous city in [[Northern California]], [[List of largest California cities by population|sixth-most populous city in the state]], and the [[List of United States cities by population|ninth-most populous state capital in the United States]].<ref>State of California, Department of Finance, E-1 Population Estimates for Cities, Counties and the State with Annual percent change – January 1, 2016, and 2017. Sacramento, California, May 2017.</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Top 50 U.S. Cities by Population and Rank|url=http://www.infoplease.com|publisher=Infoplease|access-date=June 29, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160629021827/http://www.infoplease.com/|archive-date=June 29, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> Sacramento is the seat of the [[California Legislature]] and the [[Governor of California]].
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| Sacramento is also the cultural and economic core of the [[Sacramento metropolitan area|Greater Sacramento area]], which at the [[2020 United States census|2020 census]] had a population of 2,680,831, the [[Statistical area (United States)|fourth-largest metropolitan area in California]].<ref name="auto">{{cite web|title=Annual Estimates of the Resident Population: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2017|url=https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=PEP_2017_PEPANNRES&prodType=table|publisher=United States Census Bureau|access-date=May 8, 2018|archive-url=https://archive.today/20200214061255/https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=PEP_2017_PEPANNRES&prodType=table|archive-date=February 14, 2020}}</ref>
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| Before the [[Spanish colonization of the Americas|arrival of the Spanish]], the area was inhabited by the [[Nisenan]], [[Maidu]], and other [[indigenous peoples of California]]. Spanish cavalryman [[Gabriel Moraga]] surveyed and named the ''Río del Santísimo Sacramento'' ([[Sacramento River]]) in 1808, after the [[Blessed Sacrament]]. In 1839, [[Juan Bautista Alvarado]], [[List of Governors of California before 1850|Mexican governor]] of [[Alta California]], granted the responsibility of colonizing the [[Sacramento Valley]] to [[Switzerland|Swiss]]-born Mexican citizen [[John Sutter|John Augustus Sutter]], who subsequently established [[Sutter's Fort]] and the settlement at the ''Rancho [[New Helvetia|Nueva Helvetia]].'' Following the American [[Conquest of California]] and the 1848 [[Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo]], the waterfront developed by Sutter began to be developed and incorporated in 1850 as the City of Sacramento. In 1852, the city offered its county courthouse to the state of California to house the state legislature, resulting in the city becoming the permanent state capital in 1854 and ushering in the construction of a new state capitol building which was finished in 1874.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://ktla.com/news/when-and-how-did-sacramento-become-californias-capital-city/ |title=When and how did Sacramento become California's capital? |last=Martinez |first=Jeremiah |date=September 18, 2022 |website=KTLA 5 |access-date=June 27, 2023}}</ref>
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| | {{cite web|last1=Caraccio|first1=David|title=Sacramento is fastest growing big city in California|url=http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article148080179.html|newspaper=The Sacramento Bee|access-date=May 3, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170502214127/http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article148080179.html|archive-date=May 2, 2017|url-status=live}} |
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| Sacramento is the fastest-growing major city in California,<ref>{{cite web|last1=Caraccio|first1=David|title=Sacramento is fastest growing big city in California|url=http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article148080179.html|newspaper=The Sacramento Bee|access-date=May 3, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170502214127/http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article148080179.html|archive-date=May 2, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> owing to its status as a notable political center on the [[West Coast of the United States|West Coast]] and as a major educational hub, home of [[California State University, Sacramento]] and [[University of California, Davis|UC Davis]]. Similarly, Sacramento is a major center for the California [[healthcare industry]], as the seat of [[Sutter Health]], the world-renowned [[UC Davis Medical Center]], and the [[UC Davis School of Medicine]]. In 2013, the Sacramento Convention and Visitors Bureau stated that the city receives 15.3 million visitors per year.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.visitsacramento.com/blog/stories/post/why-does-tourism-matter-in-sacramento/ |title=Why does Tourism Matter in Sacramento? |last=Darnell |first=Brandon |date=May 17, 2013 |website=Visit Sacramento |access-date=June 27, 2023}}</ref> and is home to [[the California Museum]], [[Crocker Art Museum]], [[California State Railroad Museum]], [[California State Capitol Museum]], [[California Hall of Fame]], and [[Old Sacramento State Historic Park]]. It is also a [[Global City|global city]], designated at the [[Globalization and World Cities Research Network|"Gamma"-level]].<ref>{{cite web |title=The World According to GaWC 2020 |url=https://www.lboro.ac.uk/microsites/geography/gawc/world2020t.html |website=Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) Research Network |access-date=19 May 2023}}</ref>
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| Sacramento is known for its evolving contemporary culture, even being dubbed the fourth most "[[Hipster (contemporary subculture)|hipster]] city" in the United States in one 2016 poll.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Milne|first1=Steve|last2=Serrieh|first2=Joanne|title=Report: Sacramento Fourth Most Hipster U.S. City|url=http://www.capradio.org/articles/2016/07/29/report-sacramento-fourth-most-hipster-us-city|publisher=Capital Public Radio|access-date=May 7, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170508075257/http://www.capradio.org/articles/2016/07/29/report-sacramento-fourth-most-hipster-us-city|archive-date=May 8, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=STUDY: Seattle Tops Portland As Most 'Hipster' City in U.S. {{!}} Infogroup|url=http://www.infogroup.com/about/news/study-seattle-tops-portland-as-most-hipster-city-in-us-0|publisher=Infogroup|access-date=May 7, 2017|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170429233530/http://www.infogroup.com/about/news/study-seattle-tops-portland-as-most-hipster-city-in-us-0|archive-date=April 29, 2017}}</ref>
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Sacramento, California is the capital of the U.S. state of California. Located in a long valley where the Sacramento River and American River join, in 2020 Sacramento had a population of 524,943 and its greater metropolitan area had 2,680,831 people. Sacramento is the seat of the California legislature and the Governor of California. It is also the county seat of Sacramento County.
Sacramento is the fastest-growing major city in California,[1] owing to its status as the seat of state government and as a major educational hub, home of California State University, Sacramento and the University of California (UC), Davis, School of Medicine and related medical centers. It is a center for healthcare, including Sutter Health and the UC Davis Medical Center, including its multiple facilities such as the its Children’s Hospital and School of Medicine.
The city has many museums, including the California Museum, Crocker Art Museum, California State Railroad Museum, California State Capitol Museum, California Hall of Fame, and Old Sacramento State Historic Park.
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