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Kalamazoo
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county seat of Kalamazoo County, Michigan, United States
Kalamazoo is a city in Michigan that serves as the administrative center of Kalamazoo County. As the county seat, it is responsible for housing key government offices and institutions for the county.
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- Official name
- Kalamazoo
- Population
- 73598
- Area
- 65.049677
- Elevation
- 239
- Official website
- www.kalamazoocity.org
- Image
- Kalamazoo.jpg
- Households
- 29208
- Dialing code
- 269
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- Commons category
- Kalamazoo, Michigan
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- Kalamazoo, Michigan
- inception
- 1829-00-00
- postal code
- 49048
- social media followers
- 35614
- water as percent of area
- 1.7186
- per capita income
- 23999
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Kalamazoo (/ˌkæləməˈzuː/) is a city in Kalamazoo County, Michigan, United States, and its county seat. At the 2020 census, Kalamazoo had a population of 73,598. It is the principal city of the Kalamazoo–Portage metropolitan area in southwestern Michigan, which had a population of 261,670 in 2020.
One of Kalamazoo's most notable features is the Kalamazoo Mall, an outdoor pedestrian shopping mall. The city created the mall in 1959 by closing part of Burdick Street to automobile traffic, although two of the mall's four blocks have been reopened to auto traffic since 1999. Kalamazoo is home to Western Michigan University, a large public university, Kalamazoo College, a private liberal arts college, and Kalamazoo Valley Community College, a two-year community college.