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Little Rock, Arkansas
Little Rock
is the
capital
and the most populous city of the
U.S. state
of
Arkansas
. It is also the
county seat
of
Pulaski County
. It was incorporated on November 7, 1831 on the south bank of the
Arkansas River
very near the geographic center of the state. The city derives its name from
a rock formation
along the river, named "La Petite Roche" by the French in 1799. The capital of the
Arkansas Territory
was moved to Little Rock from
Arkansas Post
in 1821. The city's population was 193,524 at the
2010 census
. The five-county
Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR Metropolitan Statistical Area
(MSA) is ranked 75th in terms of population in the United States with 724,385 residents according to the 2013 estimate by the
United States Census Bureau
.
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