Austin is the capital city of the U.S. state of Texas.

Austin Texas as well as the seat and largest city of Travis County, with portions extending into Hays and Williamson counties. Incorporated on December 27, 1839, it is the 11th-most populous city in the United States, the fourth-most-populous city in Texas, and the second-most-populous state capital city after Phoenix, Arizona .[ It was also the fastest growing large city in the United States in 2015 and 2016 and was the fifth fastest growing city with a population above 50,000 between 2010 and 2019 overall.  It is the southernmost state capital in the contiguous United States and is considered a "Beta " global city as categorized by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network. 

 

As of the U.S. Census Bureau's July 1, 2019 estimate, Austin had a population  of 978,908, up from 790,491 at the 2010 census. The city is the cultural and economic center of the Austin Round Rock metropolitan statistical area, which had an estimated population of 2,227,083 as of July 1, 2019, nearly an 80% increase from the year 2000. Located in Central Texas within the greater Texas Hill Country, it is home to numerous lakes, rivers, and waterways, including Lady Bird Lake and Lake Travis on the Colorado River, Barton Springs, McKinney Falls, and Lake Walter E. Long.

Residents of Austin are known as Austinites. They include a diverse mix of government employees, college students, musicians, high-tech workers, and blue-collar workers. The city's official slogan promotes Austin as "The Live Music Capital of the World", a reference to the city's many musicians and live music venues, as well as the long-running PBS TV concert series Austin City Limits. The city also adopted "Silicon Hills" as a nickname in the 1990s due to a rapid influx of technology and development companies. In recent years, some Austinites have adopted the unofficial slogan "Keep Austin Weird",  which refers to the desire to protect small, unique, and local businesses from being overrun by large corporations. Since the late 19th century, Austin has also been known as the "City of the Violet Crown", because of the colorful glow of light across the hills just after sunset. 

In 1987 Austin originated and remains the site for South by Southwest , an annual conglomeration of parallel film, interactive media, and music festivals and conferences that take place in mid-March.

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