Cincinnati is a city in the
U.S. state of
Ohio and the
county seat of
Hamilton County. The municipality is located in southwestern Ohio and is situated on the
Ohio River at the Ohio-Kentucky border. With a 2006 population of 332,252, Cincinnati is Ohio's third largest city, behind
Columbus and
Cleveland, and the 56th largest city in the United States. The much larger
metropolitan area, commonly called "
Greater Cincinnati," stands as the second largest metropolitan region in Ohio, just behind Cleveland, and includes parts of Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana. As of 2006, the
U.S. Census Bureau estimates that the Cincinnati-
Middletown-
Wilmington Combined Statistical Area has a population of 2,147,617 (making it the 20th largest in the country) and is growing at a rate of about one percent annually.
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