Nashville, Tennessee, United States

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🇺🇸 Nashville is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Tennessee. The city is the county seat of Davidson County and is located on the Cumberland River.

Named for Francis Nash, a general of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, the city was founded in 1779. The city grew quickly due to its strategic location as a port on the Cumberland River and, in the 19th century, a railroad center. Nashville seceded with Tennessee during the American Civil War; in 1862 it was the first state capital in the Confederacy to fall to Union troops. After the war, the city reclaimed its position and developed a manufacturing base.

Since 1963, Nashville has had a consolidated city-county government, which includes six smaller municipalities in a two-tier system. The city is governed by a mayor, a vice-mayor, and a 40-member metropolitan council; 35 of the members are elected from single-member districts, while the other five are elected at-large. Reflecting the city's position in state government, Nashville is home to the Tennessee Supreme Court's courthouse for Middle Tennessee, one of the state's three divisions.

A major centre for the music industry, especially country music, Nashville is commonly known as "Music City". It is also home to numerous colleges and universities, including Tennessee State University, Vanderbilt University, Belmont University, Fisk University, Trevecca Nazarene University, Lipscomb University, and The Belonging Co College, a satellite campus of Southeastern University (Florida) housed within The Belonging Co, a nondenominational Christian church. Nashville is sometimes referred to as "Athens of the South" due to the large number of educational institutions. The city is also a major centre for the healthcare, publishing, banking, automotive, technology, and transportation industries. Entities with headquarters in the city include AllianceBernstein, Asurion, Bridgestone Americas, Captain D's, Hospital Corporation of America, LifeWay Christian Resources, Logan's Roadhouse, and Ryman Hospitality Properties.

Economy In the 21st century's second decade, Nashville was described as a "southern boomtown" by numerous publications. In 2017, it had the third-fastest-growing metropolitan economy in the United States and "adds an average of 100 people a day to its net population increase". The Nashville region was also said to be the "Number One" Metro Area for Professional and Business Service Jobs in America,; Zillow said it had the "hottest Housing market in America". In 2013, the city ranked No. 5 on Forbes' list of the Best Places for Business and Careers. In 2015, Forbes put Nashville as the 4th Best City for White Collar Jobs. In 2015, Business Facilities' 11th Annual Rankings report named Nashville the number one city for Economic Growth Potential.

Fortune 500 companies with offices within Nashville include BNY Mellon, Bridgestone Americas, Ernst & Young, Community Health Systems, Dell, Deloitte, Dollar General, Hospital Corporation of America, Nissan North America, Philips, Tractor Supply Company, and UBS. Of these, Community Health Systems, Dollar General, SmileDirectClub, Hospital Corporation of America, and Tractor Supply Company are headquartered in the city. Many popular food companies are based in Nashville including Captain D's, Hunt Brothers Pizza, O'Charley's, Logan's Roadhouse, J. Alexander's, and Stoney River Legendary Steaks.

As the "home of country music", Nashville has become a major music recording and production center. The Big Three record labels, as well as numerous independent labels, have offices in Nashville, mostly in the Music Row area. Nashville has been the headquarters of guitar company Gibson since 1984. Since the 1960s, Nashville has been the second-largest music production centre (after New York City) in the United States. Nashville's music industry is estimated to have a total economic impact of about $10 billion per year and to contribute about 56,000 jobs to the Nashville area.

The area's largest industry is health care. Nashville is home to more than 300 health care companies, including Hospital Corporation of America (HCA), the world's largest private operator of hospitals. As of 2012, it was estimated the health care industry contributes US$30 billion per year and 200,000 jobs to the Nashville-area economy.

CoreCivic, formerly known as Corrections Corporation of America and one of the largest private corrections company in the United States, was founded in Nashville in 1983, but moved out of the city in 2019. Vanderbilt University was one of its investors before the company's initial public offering. The City of Nashville's pension fund included "a $921,000 stake" in the company in 2017. The Nashville Scene notes that, "A drop in CoreCivic stock value, however minor, would have a direct impact on the pension fund that represents nearly 25,000 current and former Metro employees".

The automotive industry is also becoming important for the Middle Tennessee region. Nissan North America moved its corporate headquarters in 2006 from Gardena, California (Los Angeles County) to Franklin, a suburb south of Nashville. Nissan's largest North American manufacturing plant is in Smyrna, another suburb of Nashville. Largely as a result of the increased development of Nissan and other Japanese economic interests in the region, Japan moved its former New Orleans consulate-general to Nashville's Palmer Plaza. General Motors operates an assembly plant in Spring Hill, about 35 miles (56 km) south of Nashville. Automotive parts manufacturer Bridgestone has its their North American headquarters in Nashville and manufacturing plants and a distribution centre in nearby counties.

Other major industries in Nashville include insurance, finance, and publishing (especially religious publishing). The city hosts headquarters operations for several Protestant denominations, including the United Methodist Church, Southern Baptist Convention, National Baptist Convention USA, and the National Association of Free Will Baptists. Nashville is known for Southern confections, including Goo Goo Clusters, which have been made in Nashville since 1912.

In May 2018, AllianceBernstein pledged to build a private client office in the city by mid-2019 and to move its headquarters from New York City to Nashville by 2024. The technology sector is an important and growing aspect of Nashville's economy. In November 2018, Amazon announced its plans to build an operations centre in the Nashville Yards development to serve as the hub for their Retail Operations division. In April 2021, Oracle Corporation announced that it would construct a $1.2 billion campus in Nashville, which is expected to employ 8,500 by 2031.

In December 2019, iHeartMedia selected Nashville as the site of its second digital headquarters.

Real estate is becoming a driver for the city's economy. Based on a survey of nearly 1,500 real estate industry professionals conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the Urban Land Institute, Nashville ranked 7th nationally in terms of attractiveness to real estate investors for 2016. As of October 2015, according to city figures, there is more than $2 billion in real estate projects underway or projected to start in 2016. Due to high yields available to investors, Nashville has been attracting a lot of capital from out-of-state. A key factor that has been attributed to the increase in investment is the adjustment to the city's zoning code. Developers can easily include a combination of residential, office, retail and entertainment space into their projects. Additionally, the city has invested heavily into public parks. Centennial Park is undergoing extensive renovations. The change in the zoning code and the investment in public space is consistent with the millennial generation's preference for walkable urban neighbourhoods.

Top employers According to the Nashville Business Journal, the top employers in the city include: 1 Vanderbilt University Medical Center; 2 State of Tennessee; 3 U.S. federal government; 4 HCA Healthcare; 5 Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools; 6 Vanderbilt University; 7 Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County; 8 Ascension Saint Thomas; 9 The Kroger Co.; 10 Amazon; 11 Asurion; 12 Bridgestone Americas Inc.

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Nashville is rated Gamma by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network (GaWC) which evaluates and ranks the relationships between world cities in the context of globalisation. Gamma level cities are cities that link smaller economic regions into the world economy.

Nashville is ranked #46 by the Global Urban Competitiveness Report (GUCR) which evaluates and ranks world cities in the context of economic competitiveness. Nashville was ranked #242 by the Nomad List which evaluates and ranks remote work hubs by cost, internet, fun and safety. Nashville has a population of over 670,820 people. Nashville also forms the centre of the wider Nashville metropolitan area which has a population of over 2,062,547 people. Nashville is the #66 hipster city in the world, with a hipster score of 5.1031 according to the Hipster Index which evaluates and ranks the major cities of the world according to the number of vegan eateries, coffee shops, tattoo studios, vintage boutiques, and record stores. Nashville is ranked #63 for startups with a score of 6.917.

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Twin Towns, Sister Cities Nashville has links with:

🇮🇪 Belfast, Northern Ireland 🇫🇷 Caen, France 🇨🇳 Chengdu, China 🇫🇷 Crouy, France 🇹🇷 Diyarbakır, Turkey 🇨🇦 Edmonton, Canada 🇰🇷 Gwangjin, South Korea 🇯🇵 Kamakura, Japan 🇩🇪 Magdeburg, Germany 🇦🇷 Mendoza, Argentina 🇨🇳 Taiyuan, China 🇦🇺 Tamworth, Australia
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North of: 36.167

🇯🇵 Hanyū 36.174

🇮🇶 Erbil 36.183

🇨🇳 Changzhi 36.183

🇩🇿 Sétif 36.183

🇺🇸 Springdale 36.183

🇨🇳 Feicheng 36.186

🇰🇷 Nonsan 36.187

🇯🇵 Fukaya 36.194

🇯🇵 Koga 36.196

🇺🇸 Boone 36.2

South of: 36.167

🇬🇷 Rhodes 36.167

🇺🇸 Greeneville 36.167

🇺🇸 Las Vegas 36.167

🇺🇸 Cookeville 36.166

🇺🇸 Tulsa 36.155

🇨🇳 Laiwu 36.15

🇩🇿 El Eulma 36.15

🇯🇵 Takayama 36.148

🇯🇵 Kumagaya 36.145

🇯🇵 Gyōda 36.133

West of: -86.779

🇭🇳 La Ceiba -86.783

🇺🇸 Hoover -86.806

🇺🇸 Birmingham -86.811

🇲🇽 Cancún -86.826

🇺🇸 Navarre -86.863

🇺🇸 Lafayette -86.867

🇺🇸 Franklin -86.869

🇺🇸 Michigan City -86.878

🇳🇮 León -86.887

🇺🇸 West Lafayette -86.9

Antipodal to Nashville is: 93.221,-36.167

Locations Near: Nashville -86.7787,36.1674

🇺🇸 Hendersonville -86.62,36.305 d: 20.9  

🇺🇸 Franklin -86.869,35.924 d: 28.2  

🇺🇸 Gallatin -86.447,36.388 d: 38.6  

🇺🇸 Spring Hill -86.93,35.752 d: 48.2  

🇺🇸 Lebanon -86.317,36.2 d: 41.6  

🇺🇸 Murfreesboro -86.391,35.846 d: 49.9  

🇺🇸 Clarksville -87.36,36.531 d: 65.9  

🇺🇸 Bowling Green -86.433,36.967 d: 94.1  

🇺🇸 Hopkinsville -87.483,36.85 d: 98.6  

🇺🇸 Cookeville -85.512,36.166 d: 113.7  

Antipodal to: Nashville 93.221,-36.167

🇦🇺 Bunbury 115.637,-33.327 d: 17947.6  

🇦🇺 Mandurah 115.721,-32.529 d: 17915.3  

🇦🇺 Rockingham 115.717,-32.267 d: 17906.7  

🇦🇺 City of Cockburn 115.833,-32.167 d: 17892.9  

🇦🇺 Vincent 115.834,-31.936 d: 17884.6  

🇦🇺 Wanneroo 115.803,-31.747 d: 17880.5  

🇦🇺 Perth 115.857,-31.953 d: 17883.2  

🇦🇺 Guildford 115.973,-31.9 d: 17870.9  

🇦🇺 Midland 116.01,-31.888 d: 17867.2  

🇦🇺 Albany 117.867,-35.017 d: 17788.9  

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