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}} |image_skyline = Louisville montage.jpg |imagesize = 280px |image_caption = From top: Louisville downtown skyline at night, Cathedral of the Assumption, Thunder Over Louisville fireworks during the Kentucky Derby Festival, Kentucky Derby, Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory, Fourth Street Live!, The Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts |image_flag = Louisville Metro Flag.png |image_seal = 200px-Louisville Kentucky seal.png |image_map = Map of Kentucky highlighting Jefferson County.svg |mapsize = 250px |map_caption = Location in the Commonwealth of Kentucky |image_map1 = |mapsize1 = |map_caption1 = |pushpin_map = USA |pushpin_label = Louisville, Kentucky |pushpin_map_caption = Location in the United States |coordinates_region = US-KY |subdivision_type = Country |subdivision_type1 = State |subdivision_type2 = County |subdivision_name = United States |subdivision_name1 = Kentucky |subdivision_name2 = Jefferson |established_title = Established |established_date = 1778〔 |established_title2 = Incorporated |established_date2 = 1828〔Commonwealth of Kentucky. Office of the Secretary of State. Land Office. "Louisville, Kentucky". Accessed September 19, 2013.〕 |founder = George Rogers Clark |named_for = King Louis XVI of France |government_type = Mayor–council |leader_title = Mayor |leader_name = Greg Fischer (D) |leader_title1 = Metro Council |leader_name1 = 26 council members |area_footnotes = 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Jefferson County, Kentucky Atlas & Gazetteer )〕 |area_magnitude = 1 E9 |unit_pref = Imperial |area_total_sq_mi = 399 |area_land_sq_mi = 385.09 |area_water_sq_mi = 13 |area_total_km2 = 1032 |area_land_km2 = 997.38 |area_water_km2 = 35 |population_as_of = 2014 |population_total = 760,026〔 (consolidated) 612,780〔 (balance) |population_rank = US: 30th KY: 1st |population_metro = 1,269,702〔 (US: 44th) |population_blank1_title = CSA |population_blank1 = 1,498,593 (US: 35th) |population_blank2_title = GMP |population_blank2 = $64.6 billion (US: 48th) |population_density_km2 = 743.0 |population_demonym = Louisvillian |population_footnotes = |timezone = EST |utc_offset = -5 |timezone_DST= EDT |utc_offset_DST = -4 |postal_code_type = ZIP code prefixes |postal_code = major: 402xx minor: 400xx, 401xx |area_code_type = Area code |area_code = 502 |elevation_m = 142 |elevation_ft = 466 |latd = 38 |latm = 15 |latNS = N |longd = 85 |longm = 46 |longEW = W |coordinates_display=inline,title |blank1_name_sec1 = FIPS code |blank1_info_sec1 = 21-48000 |blank2_name_sec1 = GNIS feature ID |blank2_info_sec1 = 0509453〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://geonames.usgs.gov/apex/f?p=136:3:0::NO:3:P3_FID,P3_TITLE:509453,Louisville )〕 |blank3_name_sec1 = USDA hardiness zones |blank3_info_sec1 = 6b, 7a〔 |blank1_name_sec2 = Interstates |blank1_info_sec2 = |blank2_name_sec2 = Airports |blank2_info_sec2 = Louisville International Airport, Bowman Field |blank3_name_sec2 = Waterways |blank3_info_sec2 = Ohio River, Beargrass Creek, Floyds Fork, Harrods Creek |blank4_name_sec2 = Public transit |blank4_info_sec2 = TARC |website = |footnotes = }} Louisville (generally pronounced or by natives, and by others) is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the 30th-most populous city in the United States. It is one of two cities in Kentucky designated as first-class, with the other being the state's second-largest city of Lexington. Louisville is the historical seat and, since 2003, the nominal seat of Jefferson County. Louisville was founded in 1778 by George Rogers Clark and is named after King Louis XVI of France, making Louisville one of the oldest cities west of the Appalachian Mountains. Sited beside the Falls of the Ohio, the only major obstruction to river traffic between the upper Ohio River and the Gulf of Mexico, the settlement first grew as a portage site. It was the founding city of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, which grew into a system across 13 states. Today, the city is known as the home of the Kentucky Derby, Kentucky Fried Chicken, the University of Louisville and its Louisville Cardinals athletic teams, Louisville Slugger baseball bats, and three of Kentucky's six ''Fortune'' 500 companies.〔''CNN Money''. "(''Fortune'' 500 2012: States: Kentucky Companies )". May 21, 2012. Accessed September 19, 2013.〕 Its main airport is also the site of UPS's worldwide air hub. Since 2003, Louisville's borders have been coterminous with those of Jefferson County because of a city-county merger.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Louisville-Jefferson County Local Government Consolidation )〕 The official name of this consolidated city-county government is the Louisville/Jefferson County Metro Government,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Louisville/Jefferson County Metro Government Code of Ordinances )〕 abbreviated to Louisville Metro.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Louisville/Jefferson County Metro Government Code of Ordinances § 10.06 DEFINITIONS )〕 Despite the merger and renaming, the term "Jefferson County" continues to be used in some contexts in reference to Louisville Metro, particularly including the incorporated cities outside the "balance" which make up Louisville proper. The city's total consolidated population as of the 2014 census estimate was 760,026.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/21/21111.html )〕 However, the balance total of 612,780〔 excludes other incorporated places and semiautonomous towns within the county and is the population listed in most sources and national rankings. The Louisville-Jefferson County, KY-IN Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), sometimes also referred to as Kentuckiana,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Wave 3 "Kentuckiana" article )〕 includes Louisville-Jefferson County and 12 surrounding counties, seven in Kentucky and five in Southern Indiana. As of 2014, the MSA had a population of 1,269,702, ranking 44th nationally. ==History== (詳細はgeography and location. 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「Louisville, Kentucky」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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