City of San Antonio
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Flag of City of San Antonio Flag Official seal of City of San Antonio Seal
Nickname(s): River City, San Antone, Alamo City, Military City USA, Countdown City
Location in Bexar county in the state of Texas
City of San Antonio Location in the United States
Coordinates: 29°25′N 98°30′W / 29.417°N 98.5°W / 29.417; -98.5
Country	United States
State	Texas
County	Bexar, Medina, Comal
Foundation	1691
Government
• Type	Council-Manager
• City Council	Mayor Julian Castro[1] Diego M. Bernal Ivy R. Taylor Jennifer V. Ramos Rey Saldaña David Medina, Jr. Ray Lopez Cris Medina W. Reed Williams Elisa Chan Carlton Soules
• City Manager	Sheryl Sculley
Area
• City	412.1 sq mi (1,067.3 km2)
• Land	407.6 sq mi (1,055.7 km2)
• Water	4.5 sq mi (11.7 km2)
Elevation	650 ft (198 m)
Population (2010)
• City	1,327,407 (7th)
• Density	3,400.9/sq mi (1,313.1/km2)
• Metro	2,194,927 (24th)
• Demonym	San Antonian
Time zone	CST (UTC–6)
• Summer (DST)	CDT (UTC–5)
Area code(s)	210(majority), 830(portions)
Website	www.sanantonio.gov

San Antonio ( /ˌsænænˈtoʊni.oʊ/) is the seventh-largest city in the United States of America and the second-largest within the state of Texas, with a population of 1.3 million.^[2] It was the fastest growing of the top 10 largest cities in the United States from 2000-2010, and the second from 1990-2000.^[3][4] Located in the American Southwest and the south–central part of Texas, the city serves as the seat of Bexar County. San Antonio has characteristics of other western urban centers in which there are sparsely populated areas and a low density rate outside of the city limits. The city is one of the two principal municipalities of the San Antonio-New Braunfels metropolitan area, the other being New Braunfels. Commonly referred to as Greater San Antonio, the metropolitan area has a population of 2.2 million based on the 2011 U.S. Census estimate, making it the 24th-largest metropolitan area in the United States and third-largest in the state of Texas.

The city was named for San Antonio de Padua, whose feast day is on June 13, when a Spanish expedition stopped in the area in 1691. Famous for Spanish missions, the Alamo, the River Walk, the Tower of the Americas, the Alamo Bowl, Marriage Island and host to SeaWorld and Six Flags Fiesta Texas theme parks, the city is visited by approximately 26 million tourists per year according to the San Antonio Convention and Visitors Bureau. The city is home to the four-time NBA champion San Antonio Spurs and the annual San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo, one of the largest in the country.

San Antonio has a strong military presence—it is home to Fort Sam Houston, Lackland Air Force Base, Randolph Air Force Base, and Brooks City-Base, with Camp Bullis and Camp Stanley outside the city. Kelly Air Force Base operated out of San Antonio until 2001, when the airfield was transferred over to Lackland AFB and the remaining portions of the base became Port San Antonio, an industrial/business park. San Antonio is home to five Fortune 500 companies and the South Texas Medical Center, the only medical research and care provider in the South Texas region.