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Nashville is the capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee. It is the second most thickly settled city in the state after Memphis. It is located on the Cumberland River in Davidson County, in the N-central part of the state. Nashville is a major hub for the health care, music, publishing, and transportation industries.Nashville has a consolidated city-county government which includes seven smaller municipalities in a two-tier system. The populus of Nashville-Davidson County stood at 607,413 as of 2005, according to US Census Bureau estimates. The 2005 populus of the entire 13-county Nashville Metropolitan Statistical Area was 1,498,836, making it the largest and quicklyest-growing metropolitan area in the state.

By 1860, when the first rumblings of secession began to be heard across the South, antebellum Nashville was a very prosperous city. The city`s significance as a shipping port made it a desirable prize as a means of controlling important river and railroad transportation routes. In February 1862, Nashville became the first state capital to fall to Union soldiers.

Though the Civil War left Nashville in dire economic straits, the city rapidly rebounded. Within a few years, the city had reclaimed its important shipping and trading position and also developed a solid manufacturing base. The post-Civil War years of the late 19th century brought a newfound prosperity to Nashville. These healthy economic times left the city with a legacy of grand classical-style buildings, which can still be seen around the downtown area.

Today the city along the Cumberland River is a crossroads of US culture, and easily the quicklyest-growing part of the Upper South and the territory between Atlanta and Texas. Currently, there are many plans of building multiple residential and business towers in the downtown area, including the Signature Tower. If constructed, this will be the tallest building in both Nashville and Tennessee surpassing the AT&T Building, and will also become the tallest building in the USA outside of New York and Chicago surpassing the Bank of America Plaza in Atlanta.

Nashville lies on the Cumberland River in the Nwestern portion of the Nashville Basin. Nashville`s topography ranges from 117 meters (385 ft) above sea level at the Cumberland River to 354 meters (1,160 ft) above sea level at its highest point.

Nashville lies in a transitional weather zone between humid subtropical and humid continental , above the 0 °C mesotherm freeze line for genuine subtropical areas, but still below the -3 °C mesotherm "persistent snow" line for genuinely continental areas. The city has unusually pronounced seasons for a Southern city, because of both the elevation of the area and the lack of a significant body of water nearby. Summers in Nashville are generally hot and humid, with July afternoons averaging 89 °F (32 °C). Winters are moderately cold by U.S. standards, with nighttime lows in January averaging 28 °F (-2 °C). Average annual rainfall is 48.1 inches (1222 mm), typically with winter and spring being the wettest and autumn being the driest. Average annual snowfall is about 9 inches (229 mm), falling mostly in January and February. Spring and fall are generally pleasantly warm but prone to severe thunderstorms, which occasionally bring tornadoes—with recent major events on April 16, 1998 and April 7, 2006.