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.