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Renting an Apartment in Central Phoenix
What You Should Know
Phoenix is the state capital of Arizona, and was incorporated as a city on
February 25, 1881. Phoenix is located in central Arizona in the southwestern
United States, 118 miles (188 km) northwest of Tucson. It is Arizona's largest
city and largest metropolitan area by population. It is also the county seat of
Maricopa County and the principal city of the Phoenix metropolitan area. Phoenix
is called Hoozdo, or "the place is hot", in the Navajo language and Fiinigis in
the Western Apache language.
In mid-2004, Phoenix was the sixth-largest city in the United States according
to the U.S. Census Bureau's latest estimates. However, according to unofficial
projections Phoenix surpassed Philadelphia in late 2005, moving into the top
five cities in the U.S. The 2000 U.S. Census reported the Phoenix Metropolitan
Statistical Area (MSA) as the fourteenth-largest in the U.S., with a population
of 3,251,876. The city's MSA grew to an estimated 3,790,000 by 2004. Between
1990 and 2000, the metropolitan area grew by 34 percent, making it the eighth
fastest-growing metropolitan area in the U.S.
Phoenix is the largest capital city by population, meaning that it's the most
populous of all U.S. capital cities (all 50 state capitals and the national
capital Washington, D.C.). It is also the third-largest capital city by area in
the U.S. (behind Juneau, Alaska and Oklahoma City).