Nashville

Nashville TN

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Nashville is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the seat of Davidson County.[6] It is located on the Cumberland River in northern Middle Tennessee. The city is a center for the music,[7] healthcare, publishing, private prison,[8] banking and transportation industries, and is home to numerous colleges and universities.

Since 1963, Nashville has had a consolidated city-county government, which includes six smaller municipalities in a two-tier system. The city is governed by a mayor, a vice-mayor, and a 40-member Metropolitan Council; 35 of the members are elected from single-member districts, while the other five are elected at-large. Reflecting the city’s position in state government, the city is home to the Tennessee Supreme Court‘s courthouse for Middle Tennessee. According to 2016 estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau, the total consolidated city-county population stood at 684,410.[3] The “balance” population, which excludes semi-independent municipalities within Davidson County, was 660,388.[5][9] The 2015 population of the entire 13-county Nashville metropolitan area was 1,830,345, making it the largest metropolitan statistical area in Tennessee.[4] The 2015 population of the Nashville-Davidson–Murfreesboro–Columbia combined statistical area, a larger trade area, was 1,951,644.[10]