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Sacramento, Californie

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Sacramento
City of Sacramento
Aerial View o Dountoun Sacramento
Aerial View o Dountoun Sacramento
Banner o Sacramento
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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
Location o Sacramento in Sacramento Coonty, Californie
Sacramento is located in the Unitit States
Sacramento
Sacramento
Location in the Unitit States
Coordinates: 38°33′20″N 121°28′8″W / 38.55556°N 121.46889°W / 38.55556; -121.46889
KintraUnitit States
StateCalifornie
CoontySacramento Coonty
Govrenment
 • TeepCooncil–manager
 • MayorDarrell Steinberg
Area
 • State Caipital259.273 km2 (100.105 sq mi)
 • Laund253.600 km2 (97.915 sq mi)
 • Water5.673 km2 (2.190 sq mi)  2.19%
Elevation
8 m (25 ft)
Population
 (2012)
 • State Caipital472,178[1]
 • Density1861.9/km2 (4822.3/sq mi)
 • Urban
1.44 million
 • Metro
2.6 million
 • Demonym
Sacramentan
Time zoneUTC−8 (PST)
 • Summer (DST)UTC−7 (PDT)
ZIP code
942xx, 958xx
Area code(s)916
FIPS code06-64000
GNIS featur ID1659564
Websitehttp://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

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Kintra Ceety Year o Pairtnership
Philippines Philippines Manila 8 Juin 1961
Japan Japan Matsuyama 17 Mairch 1981
Brazil Brazil Rio Verde, Goias 9 August 1983
Fowkrepublic o Cheenae Fowkrepublic o Cheenae Jinan 16 October 1984
New Zealand New Zealand Hamilton 6 December 1988
Switzerland Swisserland Liestal 21 Mairch 1989
Moldovae Moldovae Chişinău 12 December 1989
Sooth Korea Sooth Korea Yongsan-gu 22 Julie 1997
Nicaragua Nicaragua San Juan de Oriente 28 Februar 2006
Philippines Philippines Pasay 28 Februar 2006
State o Palestine Palestine Bethlehem 15 December 2009
Israel Israel Ashkelon 15 August 2012

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