Louisville

"Louisville (pronunciado: /'luvil/) es la ciudad más grande del estado de Kentucky. Tiene una población de 699.827 habitantes. Es considerada la 16ª o 27ª ciudad más grande de Estados Unidos dependiendo que cálculo se utiliza para el conteo de la población (ver Toponimia, población y clasificación). El asentamiento que después se convirtió en la ciudad de Louisville fue fundado en 1778 por George Rogers Clark y está nombrada en honor del Rey Luis XVI de Francia. La mayor fama de Louisville proviene de "Los dos minutos más emocionantes en el deporte": el Derby de Kentucky (Kentucky Derby), la carrera de caballos que es parte de la Triple Corona de Caballos Purasangre, que se lleva a cabo anualmente en esta ciudad, siendo un evento ampliamente televisado. Louisville está situada en la parte nor-central de Kentucky, en la frontera de Kentucky e Indiana situada en el único obstáculo natural del río Ohio, las Cataratas de Ohio. Louisville es la cabeza del condado de Jefferson y desde el 2003, los límites de la ciudad son contiguos a los del condado debido a la fusión entre el condado y la ciudad. Ya que incluye condados del Sur de Indiana, el área metropolitana de Louisville es usualmente conocida como Kentuckiana. Aunque se encuentra situada al sur de los Estados Unidos, Louisville está influida por las culturas del Medio Oeste y del sur, en ocasiones se refiere a ella como la ciudad del sur más norteña o como la ciudad del norte más sureña de los Estados Unidos."

"Louisville (pronounced /luvl/, /lvl/ or /luivl/) 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, 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 6,000-mile (9,700 km) 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. Its main airport is also the site of United Parcel Service's worldwide air hub. Since 2003, Louisville's borders have been the same as those of Jefferson County because of a city-county merger. The official name of this consolidated city-county government is the Louisville/Jefferson County Metro Government, abbreviated to Louisville Metro. 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. 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, 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 43rd nationally."