Sacramento is the
capital of the
State of California and the
county seat of
Sacramento County. Located in California's expansive
Central Valley, it is the seventh most populous city in California with a 2007 estimated population of 467,343. 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 2,103,956. 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, and the city was cited by Time magazine as America's most integrated.
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