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|subdivision_name1 = |subdivision_name2 = Kalamazoo |established_title = Settled |established_date = 1829 |established_title1 = |established_date1 = 1843 |established_title2 = |established_date2 = 1884 |government_type = Council-Manager |government_type = Commission-Manager |leader_title = Mayor |leader_name = Bobby J. Hopewell |leader_title1 = Vice Mayor |leader_name1 = David Anderson |leader_title2 = City Manager |leader_name2 = James Ritsema |unit_pref = Imperial |area_footnotes = 〔 |area_magnitude = |area_total_km2 = 65.03 |area_land_km2 = 63.92 |area_water_km2 = 1.11 |area_total_sq_mi = 25.11 |area_land_sq_mi = 24.68 |area_water_sq_mi = 0.43 |population_footnotes = 〔 |population_as_of = 2010 |population_est = 75922 |pop_est_as_of = 2014〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/26/2642160.html )〕 |population_total = 74262 |population_urban = 187961 |population_metro = 326589 |population_density_km2 = 1161.8 |population_density_sq_mi = 3009.0 |population_demonym = Kalamazooan |timezone = Eastern |utc_offset = -5 |timezone_DST = Eastern |utc_offset_DST = -4 | |latd = 42 |latm = 17 |lats = 24 |latNS = N |longd = 85 |longm = 35 |longs = 9 |longEW = W |coordinates_display = inline,title | coordinates_type = region:US-MI_type:city |elevation_m = 239 |elevation_ft = 784 |website = (www.kalamazoocity.org ) |postal_code_type = |postal_code = |area_code = 269 |blank_name = FIPS code |blank_info = 26-42160〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=United States Census Bureau )〕 |blank1_name = GNIS feature ID |blank1_info = 0629439 |footnotes = }} Kalamazoo is a city in the southwest region of the U.S. state of Michigan. It is the county seat of Kalamazoo County. Kalamazoo is located geographically in Western and Southern Michigan. As of the 2010 census, Kalamazoo had a total population of 74,262. Kalamazoo is the major city of the Kalamazoo-Portage Metropolitan Statistical Area, which has a population of 326,589 as of 2010. Kalamazoo is home to Western Michigan University, a large public university, and Kalamazoo College, a liberal arts school, and Kalamazoo Valley Community College, a two-year community college. Kalamazoo is home to major players in the pharmaceutical and medical science industries. Kalamazoo is also known for its importance in the world of music as it was the original home to the Gibson Guitar Corporation. Kalamazoo has also built a reputation as a major player in the American craft beer movement. Kalamazoo finds itself located equidistant from the major American cities of Chicago and Detroit, both less than 150 miles from Kalamazoo. == Name origin == (詳細はTitus Bronson) in the township of Arcadia, the names of both the city and the township were changed to "Kalamazoo" in 1836 and 1837, respectively.〔Living in Kalamazoo, Balls & Lassfalk, 1958〕 The Kalamazoo name comes from a Potawatomi word, first found in a British report in 1772. However, the Kalamazoo River, which passes through the modern city of Kalamazoo, was located on the route between Detroit and Fort Saint-Joseph (nowadays Niles, Michigan). French-Canadian traders, missionaries, and military personnel were quite familiar with this area during the French era and thereafter. The name for the Kalamazoo River was then known by Canadians and French as La rivière Kikanamaso. The name "Kikanamaso" was also recorded by Father Pierre Potier, a Jesuit missionary for the Huron-Wendats at the Assumption mission (south shore of Detroit), while en route to Fort Saint-Joseph during the fall of 1760.〔Potier, Pierre. 1996. (Les écrits de pierre potier, ed ). Robert Toupin. Ottawa, ON, CAN: University of Ottawa Press.〕 Legend has it that "Ki-ka-ma-sung," meaning "boiling water," referring to a footrace held each fall by local Native Americans, who had to run to the river and back before the pot boiled.〔Kalamazoo and how it Grew...and Grew, Dunbar, 1959〕 Still another theory is that it means "the mirage or reflecting river." Another legend is that the image of "boiling water" referred to fog on the river as seen from the hills above the current downtown. The name was also given to the river that flows almost all the way across the state. The name Kalamazoo, which sounds unusual to English-speaking ears, has become a metonym for exotic places, as in the phrase "from Timbuktu to Kalamazoo". Today, T-shirts are sold in Kalamazoo with the phrase "Yes, there really is a Kalamazoo".〔("Yes, there really is a Kalamazoo" t-shirt, at Kalamazoo Chamber of Commerce. )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kalamazoo, Michigan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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