# Louisville, Kentucky

| Louisville |
| --- |
| Consolidatit ceety-coonty |
| Louisville-Jefferson Coonty Metro Govrenment |
| From top: The Louisville downtown skyline at night, The Cathedral of the Assumption, Louisville fireworks at Kentucky Derby Festival, Kentucky Derby, Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory, Fourth Street Live! in Downtown, The Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts. |
| Banner o LouisvilleBannerOfficial seal of LouisvilleSeal |
| Eik-name(s): Derby Ceety, River Ceety, Gateway tae the Sooth, Falls Ceety, The 'Ville |
| Location in the Commonweel o Kentucky |
| Louisville, KentuckyLocation in the Unitit States |
| Coordinates: ﻿ / ﻿ |
| Kintra |  United States |
| State |  Kentucky |
| Coonty | Jefferson |
| Incorporation | 1780 |
| Named for | Keeng Louis XVI o Fraunce |
| Govrenment |
|  • Mayor | Craig Greenberg (D) |
| Area |
|  • Consolidatit ceety-coonty | 1032 km2 (399 sq mi) |
|  • Laund | 997.38 km2 (385.09 sq mi) |
|  • Water | 35 km2 (13 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 142 m (466 ft) |
| Population (2011) |
|  • Consolidatit ceety-coonty | 746,906 (consolidatit) 602,011 (balance) |
|  • Density | 743.0/km2 (1,924/sq mi) |
|  • Metro | 1,440,607 |
| Time zone | UTC-5 (EST) |
|  • Summer (DST) | UTC-4 (EDT) |
| Area code(s) | 502 |
| FIPS code | 21-48000 |
| GNIS featur ID | 0509453 |
| Demonym | Louisvillian |
| Website | louisvilleky.gov |

**Louisville** (i/ˈluːiːvɪl/, local i/ˈluːəvəl/ or i/ˈlʌvəl/) is a major ceety an the lairgest ceety in the U.S. state o Kentucky an the coonty seat o Jefferson Coonty.

Syne 2003, the ceety's borders hae been coterminous wi those o the coonty acause o a ceety-coonty merger. The ceety's tot consolidatit population at the 2010 census wis 741,096 (Louisville's balance tot, 602,011, excludes semi-autonomous touns an is the population leetit in maist soorces an naitional rankins). As o 2010, the Louisville metropolitan aurie (MSA) haed a population o 1,307,647 rankin 42nt naitionally. The metro aurie includes Louisville-Jefferson Coonty an 12 surroondin coonties, aicht in Kentucky an fower in Soothren Indiana . The Louisville Combined Stateestical Aurie, havin a population o 1,451,564, includes the MSA, Hardin Coonty an Larue Coonty in Kentucky, an Scott Coonty, Indiana.

An important internal shippin port in the 19t century, Louisville the day is baist kent as the location o the Kentucky Derby, the first o three annual thoroughbred horse races makin up the Triple Croun.

## Sister ceeties

Louisville haes nine sister ceeties as of 2012:

* Jiujiang, Cheenae
* La Plata, Argentinae
* Mainz, Germany
* Montpellier, Fraunce
* Perm, Roushie
* Quito, Ecuador
* Tamale, Ghana
* Leeds, Unitit Kinrick
* Adapazari, Turkey

In addeetion, Leeds is considered a "friendship ceety". The twa ceeties hae engaged in mony cultural exchynge programs, parteecularly in the fields o nursin an law, an cooperatit in several private business developments, includin the Frazier Internaitional History Museum.

On Aprile 15, 2008, it wis annoonced that Louisville wad be twinned wi the toun o Bushmills in Northren Ireland. The twa places share a tradeetion for the distillin o whiskey. The choice o Louisville came efter a sairch o U.S. ceeties, follaeed bi an online poll conductit for the public tae decide atween three finalists, which an aa includit Boston an Portland, Maine.

## Freemit airtins

* Offeecial Wabsteid o Louisville, Kentucky Archived 2011-02-25 at the Wayback Machine
* Louisville Convention an Veesitors Bureau
* Possibility Ceety — Louisville's brandin campaign
* Louisville/Jefferson Coonty Information Consortium
	+ LOJIC interactive cairts Archived 2008-12-04 at the Wayback Machine
* Metro Mapper – Interactive Cairts for the Louisville Metro Aurie Archived 2008-09-08 at the Wayback Machine
* Ceety Mayors featur: "Louisville Metro has shown other regions how mergers can change balance of power"
* *Louisville Life Archived 2011-12-30 at the Wayback Machine* — weekly broadcast on Kentucky Eddicational Televeesion
* Louisville Cultur Vultur: Current Calendar o Fine Cultural Performances o Classical Muisic, Opera, Ballet, Theater, an Visual Airt Archived 2013-08-28 at the Wayback Machine
* Images o Louisville frae the Varsity o Louisville Deegital Collections Archived 2013-07-27 at the Wayback Machine