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Sacramento, California
Sacramento
(; ) is the
capital city
of the U.S. state of
California
and the
seat of government
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. 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".
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