Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States

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๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Cedar Rapids is the second largest city in Iowa and is the county seat of Linn County. The city lies on both banks of the Cedar River, 20 miles north of Iowa City. Until massive flooding in 2008, the city's government was headquartered in the Veterans Memorial Building, near the Linn County Courthouse and jail on Mays Island in the Cedar River; a municipal island.

The three-county Metropolitan Statistical Area includes the nearby cities of Marion and Hiawatha. Cedar Rapids is an economic hub of the state, located at the core of the Interstate 380 corridor. The Cedar Rapids Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) is also a part of a Combined Statistical Area (CSA) with the Iowa City MSA.

A flourishing centre for arts and culture in Eastern Iowa, the city is home to the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library, the Paramount Theatre, Orchestra Iowa, Theatre Cedar Rapids, the African American Museum of Iowa, and the Iowa Cultural Corridor Alliance. In the 1990s and 2000s, several Cedar Rapidians became well-known actors, including Ashton Kutcher, Elijah Wood, Terry Farrell, and Ron Livingston. The city is the setting for the musical The Pajama Game and the comedy film Cedar Rapids.

Cedar Rapids is nicknamed the "City of Five Seasons", for the so-called "fifth season", which is time to enjoy the other four. The symbol of the five seasons is the Tree of Five Seasons sculpture in downtown along the north river bank. The name "Five Seasons" and representations of the sculpture appear throughout the city in many forms.

Economy Cedar Rapids is one of the largest cities in the world for corn processing. The grain processing industry is Cedar Rapids' most important sector, directly providing 4,000 jobs that pay on average $85,000, and also providing 8,000 indirectly. Fortune 500 company Collins Aerospace and trucking company CRST are based in Cedar Rapids, and Aegon has its United States headquarters there. A large Quaker Oats mill, one of the four that merged in 1901 to form Quaker Oats, dominates the north side of downtown. Other large companies that have facilities in Cedar Rapids include Archer Daniels Midland, Cargill, General Mills, Toyota Financial Services and Nordstrom. Newspaperarchive, based in Cedar Rapids, is the largest newspaper archive in North America with a repository of more than 150 million pages assembled over 250 years; it was taken offline for two days by the 2008 flood.

Top employers According to Cedar Rapids' 2018 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the area are: 1 Collins Aerospace; 2 Transamerica; 3 St. Luke's Hospital; 4 Cedar Rapids Community School District; 5 Hy-Vee; 6 Nordstrom Direct; 7 Mercy Medical Center; 8 City of Cedar Rapids; 9 Four Oaks 1,100 10 Quaker Oats Company.

Colleges and universities Cedar Rapids is home to two four-year colleges, Coe College and Mount Mercy University. The University of Iowa also has an evening MBA facility there. Kirkwood Community College is the area's only two-year college, while Kaplan University (formerly Hamilton College) and Upper Iowa University also have campuses there. Cornell College in Mount Vernon and the University of Iowa's main campus in Iowa City are both within 30 miles (48ย km) of Cedar Rapids.

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States 
<b>Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States</b>
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Cedar Rapids has a population of over 133,562 people. Cedar Rapids also forms the centre of the wider Linn County which has a population of over 230,299 people. Cedar Rapids is ranked #501 for startups with a score of 0.367.

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Antipodal to Cedar Rapids is: 88.331,-41.978

Locations Near: Cedar Rapids -91.6694,41.9777

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Iowa City -91.53,41.66 d: 37.2  

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Muscatine -91.05,41.417 d: 80.8  

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Waterloo -92.346,42.492 d: 79.9  

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Cedar Falls -92.448,42.524 d: 88.3  

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Dubuque -90.69,42.5 d: 99.4  

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Davenport -90.576,41.544 d: 102.7  

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Moline -90.483,41.483 d: 112.7  

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Fort Madison -91.333,40.617 d: 153.9  

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Galesburg -90.35,40.95 d: 158.6  

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Morrison -89.967,41.8 d: 142.3  

Antipodal to: Cedar Rapids 88.331,-41.978

๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ Bunbury 115.637,-33.327 d: 17439.8  

๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ Mandurah 115.721,-32.529 d: 17387.8  

๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ Rockingham 115.717,-32.267 d: 17372.8  

๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ City of Cockburn 115.833,-32.167 d: 17357.6  

๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ Vincent 115.834,-31.936 d: 17343.8  

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๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ Guildford 115.973,-31.9 d: 17330.6  

๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ Midland 116.01,-31.888 d: 17327  

๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ Albany 117.867,-35.017 d: 17345.8  

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