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Cedar Rapids is a city in and the county seat of Linn County, Iowa, United States.The city lies on both banks of the Cedar River, 20 miles (32 km) north of Iowa City and 128 miles (206 km) northeast of Des Moines, the state's capital.
This is a list of sister cities in the United States.Sister cities, known in Europe as town twins, are cities which partner with each other to promote human contact and cultural links, although this partnering is not limited to cities and often includes counties, regions, states and other sub-national entities.
The Cedar Rapids Metropolitan Statistical Area, as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area consisting of three counties in Iowa, anchored by the city of Cedar Rapids. As of the 2020 census, the MSA had a population of 276,520. The Cedar Rapids MSA is part of a Combined Statistical Area (CSA) with the Iowa City MSA.
Iowa City: 74,828 Johnson: Iowa City was the second capital of the Iowa Territory and the first capital city of the State of Iowa. The Old Capitol building is a National Historic Landmark, and it is a tourist attraction in the center of the campus of the University of Iowa, as well as being an integral part of the university.
Mount Mercy University was founded as a two-year college for women in 1928 by the Sisters of Mercy of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. These sisters, whose order was founded in 1831 by Catherine McAuley in Dublin, Ireland, have been active in Cedar Rapids since 1875. The college was an outgrowth of their concerns about the education of women.
Linn County is a county located in the U.S. state of Iowa.As of the 2020 census, the population was 230,299, [1] making it the second-most populous county in Iowa. The county seat is Cedar Rapids. [2]
The south-eastern part of Iowa Territory became Iowa, the 29th state in the union, on December 28, 1846, [3] by which point 44 counties had been created. Counties continued to be created by the state government until 1857, when the last county, Humboldt County , was created. [ 4 ]
Cedar Rapids – The City of Five Seasons [3] [5] Council Bluffs – Iowa's Leading Edge [6] Des Moines – Hartford of the West [7] Dubuque – Masterpiece on the Mississippi; Dyersville – Farm Toy Capital of the World [8] Earling - Progress Is Our Future; Emmetsburg – Iowa's Irish Capital [9] Fort Dodge – Mineral City [10] Fort Madison ...