Lincoln, Nebraska | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-03

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
Lincoln, Nebraska


00:02:15 1 History
00:02:24 1.1 Pioneer Lincoln
00:03:07 1.2 Founding
00:04:36 1.3 State Capital
00:07:53 1.4 Growth and expansion
00:13:44 1.5 Revitalization and growth
00:19:04 2 Geography
00:20:06 2.1 Metropolitan area
00:20:58 2.2 Neighborhoods
00:22:24 2.3 Climate
00:25:12 3 Demographics
00:25:48 3.1 2010 census
00:28:05 4 Economy
00:30:20 4.1 Principal employers
00:30:37 4.2 Military
00:31:07 5 Arts and culture
00:33:04 5.1 Annual cultural events
00:33:50 5.2 Tourism
00:34:39 6 Sports
00:35:56 7 Parks and recreation
00:37:50 8 Government
00:39:11 9 Education
00:39:20 9.1 Primary and secondary education
00:40:26 9.1.1 English Language Learners
00:41:45 9.1.2 Music Literacy
00:42:19 9.2 Colleges and universities
00:44:43 10 Media
00:44:51 10.1 Television
00:47:08 10.2 Radio
00:48:52 10.3 Print
00:49:26 11 Infrastructure
00:49:35 11.1 Transportation
00:49:44 11.1.1 Major highways
00:50:27 11.1.2 Mass transit
00:50:59 11.1.3 Intercity transit
00:52:13 11.1.4 Rail freight
00:52:46 11.1.5 Bike share
00:53:06 11.1.6 Modal characteristics
00:54:06 11.2 Utilities
00:56:13 11.3 Health care
00:56:50 12 See also



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Lincoln is the capital of the U.S. state of Nebraska and the county seat of Lancaster County. The city covers 94.267 square miles (244.150 km2) with a population of 284,736 in 2017.  It is the second-most populous city in Nebraska and the 71st-largest in the United States.  The city is the economic and cultural anchor of a substantially larger metropolitan area in the southeastern part of the state called the Lincoln Metropolitan and Lincoln-Beatrice Combined Statistical Areas.  The statistical area is home to 353,120 people, making it the 106th-largest combined statistical area in the United States.
The city was founded in 1856 as the village of Lancaster on the wild salt marshes of what was to become Lancaster County.  In 1867, the village of Lancaster became Nebraska's state capital and was renamed Lincoln. The Bertram G. Goodhue designed state capitol building was completed in 1932 and is the second tallest capitol in the United States.  As the city is the seat of government for the state of Nebraska, the state and the United States government are major employers. The University of Nebraska was founded in Lincoln in 1867.  The university is the largest in Nebraska with 26,079 students enrolled and is the city's third-largest employer.  Other primary employers fall within the service and manufacturing industries, including a growing high-tech sector. The region makes up a part of what is known as the greater Midwest Silicon Prairie.
Designated as a "refugee-friendly" city by the U.S. Department of State in the 1970s, the city was the twelfth-largest resettlement site per capita in the United States by 2000.  Refugee Vietnamese, Karen (Burmese ethnic minority), Sudanese and Yazidi (Iraqi ethnic minority) people, as well as other refugees from Iraq & the Middle East, have been resettled in the city.  Lincoln Public Schools during the school year of 2017–18 provided support for approximately 3,100 students from 100 countries, who spoke 50 different languages.