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Denver
Denver
(officially,
The City and County of Denver
) (;
Arapaho
: Niinéniiniicíihéhe') is the capital and
most populous municipality
of the
U.S. state
of
Colorado
. As of 2014, Denver is also the most populous county in Colorado. Denver is located in the
South Platte River Valley
on the western edge of the
High Plains
just east of the
Front Range
of the
Rocky Mountains
. The Denver downtown district is located immediately east of the confluence of
Cherry Creek
with the
South Platte River
, approximately east of the
foothills
of the Rocky Mountains. Denver is
nicknamed
the
Mile-High City
because its official elevation is exactly one mile above sea level, making it one of the highest major cities in the United States. The
105th meridian west of Greenwich
, the longitudinal reference for the
Mountain Time Zone
, passes directly through
Denver Union Station
.
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