Cedar Rapids, Iowa (usa)

Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Cedar Rapids, Iowa ranks 1,179th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Deventer, Worms, Germany, and Hasselt. Memorable people born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa include Ashton Kutcher, Michael Emerson, and Elijah Wood. Memorable people who died in Cedar Rapids, Iowa include Alexander Lippisch. Cedar Rapids, Iowa has been the birth place of many actors, and photographers and the death place of many engineers. Cedar Rapids, Iowa is located in United States.

Cedar Rapids is a city in and the county seat of Linn County, Iowa, United States. The city lies on both banks of the Cedar River, 20 miles (32 km) north of Iowa City and 128 miles (206 km) northeast of Des Moines, the state's capital. The population was 137,710 at the 2020 census, making it the second-most populous city in Iowa. The population of the three-county Cedar Rapids metropolitan area, which includes the nearby cities of Marion and Hiawatha, was 276,520 in 2020. Cedar Rapids is the economic hub of Eastern Iowa, located at the core of the Interstate 380 corridor. The Cedar Rapids metropolitan area is also part of a combined statistical area with the Iowa City metropolitan area. Read more on Wikipedia