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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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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- county seat
- Official name
- Kalamazoo
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Kalamazoo County
- Official language
- English language
- Population
- 73598
- Area
- 65.049677
- Elevation
- 239
- Time zone
- Eastern Time Zone
- Body of water
- Kalamazoo River
- Capital of
- Kalamazoo County
- Shares border with
- Benton Harbor
- Official website
- www.kalamazoocity.org
- Image
- Kalamazoo.jpg
- Households
- 29208
- Dialing code
- 269
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- Commons category
- Kalamazoo, Michigan
- topic's main category
- Category:Kalamazoo, Michigan
- twinned administrative body
- Kingston
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Kalamazoo, Michigan
- Commons gallery
- Kalamazoo, Michigan
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Kalamazoo, Michigan
- inception
- 1829-00-00
- postal code
- 49048
- social media followers
- 35614
- water as percent of area
- 1.7186
- different from
- Kalamazoo
- per capita income
- 23999
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
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