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Urbana
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town in and county seat of Champaign County, Illinois, United States
Urbana is a town in Illinois that serves as the county seat of Champaign County, meaning it is the center of local government for the county. It is located in the central part of the state and functions as an important administrative hub for the region.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- county seat
- Official name
- Urbana
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Champaign County
- Population
- 38336
- Area
- 30.28731
- Elevation
- 222
- Time zone
- Central Time Zone
- Capital of
- Champaign County
- Official website
- www.urbanail.gov
- Image
- East Main Street at Broadway Avenue Urbana, IL sunset.jpg
- Households
- 17295
- Dialing code
- 217
Show 16 more facts
- native label
- Urbana
- Commons category
- Urbana, Illinois
- topic's main category
- Category:Urbana, Illinois
- category for people born here
- Q17255441
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Urbana, Illinois
- category for people who died here
- Category:Deaths in Urbana, Illinois
- postal code
- 61803
- inception
- 1833-00-00
- P8168
- Keith Campbell
- water as percent of area
- 0.3436
- different from
- Fremont
- located in the statistical territorial entity
- Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area
- per capita income
- 25365
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- twinned administrative body
- Thionville
- P12749
- Magyar Posta
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Encyclopedic overview
Urbana (/ɜːrˈbænə/ ur-BAN-ə) is a city in Champaign County, Illinois, United States, and its county seat. As of the 2020 census, Urbana had a population of 38,336. It is a principal city of the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area, which had about 236,000 residents in 2020. Urbana is notable for sharing the main campus of the University of Illinois with its twin city of Champaign.
History
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