Nashville is the
capital and the second most populous city of the
U.S. state of
Tennessee, after
Memphis. It is located on the
Cumberland River in
Davidson County, in the north-central part of the state. Nashville is a major hub for the
health care,
music,
publishing, and
transportation industries.Nashville has a
consolidated city-county government which includes seven smaller municipalities in a two-tier system. The population of Nashville-Davidson County stood at 607,413 as of 2005, according to
United States Census Bureau estimates. The 2005 population of the entire 13-county
Nashville Metropolitan Statistical Area was 1,498,836, making it the largest and fastest-growing
metropolitan area in the state.
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