Located along the
Sacramento River and just south of the
American River's confluence in California's expansive
Central Valley, it is the seventh-largest city in California. With a 2007 estimated population of 460,242, it is also California's 2nd largest inland city. Sacramento's name is taken from the Spanish language, in which "Sacramento" is Spanish for "sacrament". Sacramento is the core cultural and economic center of its four-county metropolitan area (
El Dorado,
Placer,
Sacramento, and
Yolo counties) with a combined population of 2,136,604. The
Sacramento Metropolitan Area is the largest in the Central Valley, and is the fourth-largest in California, behind the
Greater Los Angeles Area, the
San Francisco Bay Area, and the
San Diego area. Greater Sacramento has been cited as one of the five "most livable" regions in America in 2004, and the city was cited by Time magazine as America's most integrated in 2002.
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