Oklahoma City

Oklahoma City
State capital city
Downtown Oklahoma City Oklahoma City Hall Skydance Bridge Oklahoma City National Memorial Oklahoma State Capitol Paycom Center Convention Center
Flag Seal
Nicknames:  "OKC", "The 405", "Oklas", "Boomtown", "The Big Friendly",[1] "The City",[2]
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Coordinates: 35°28′7″N 97°31′17″W / 35.46861°N 97.52139°W / 35.46861; -97.52139
Country	United States
State	Oklahoma
Counties	Oklahoma Canadian Cleveland Pottawatomie
Founded	April 22, 1889[3]
Incorporated	July 15, 1890[3]
Government
• Type	Council–manager
• Body	Oklahoma City Council
• Mayor	David Holt (R)
• City manager	Craig Freeman
Area [4]
• City	620.79 sq mi (1,607.83 km2)
• Land	606.48 sq mi (1,570.77 km2)
• Water	14.31 sq mi (37.06 km2)
• Urban	421.73 sq mi (1,092.3 km2)
Elevation [5]	1,198 ft (365 m)
Population  (2020)
• City	681,054
• Estimate  (2024)[6]	712,919
• Rank	62nd in North America 20th in the United States 1st in Oklahoma
• Density	1,122.96/sq mi (433.58/km2)
• Urban	982,276 (US: 46th)
• Urban density	2,329.2/sq mi (899.3/km2)
• Metro [7]	1,497,821 (US: 42nd)
Demonyms	Oklahoma Cityan Oklahoma Citian
GDP [8]
• Metro	$100.054 billion (2023)
Time zone	UTC−6 (Central (CST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC−5 (CDT)
ZIP Codes	Zip codes[9] 73101–73132, 73134–73137, 73139-73157, 73159-73160, 73162–73165, 73167, 73169–73170, 73172–73173, 73178–73179, 73184, 73189–73190, 73194–73196
Area codes	405/572
FIPS code	40-55000
GNIS feature ID	1102140[5]
Website	okc.gov

Oklahoma City (/ˌoʊkləˈhoʊmə -/ ^ⓘ), often shortened to OKC, is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. The county seat of Oklahoma County,^[10] it ranks 20th in population among U.S. cities and 8th in the Southern United States, with a population of 681,054 at the 2020 census.^[11] The Oklahoma City metropolitan area has an estimated 1.49 million residents, the largest metropolitan area in the state and 42nd-most populous in the nation.^[12] The city limits extend into Canadian, Cleveland, and Pottawatomie counties; however, areas beyond Oklahoma County primarily consist of suburban developments or designated rural and watershed zones. Oklahoma City ranks as the tenth-largest city by area in the United States when including consolidated city-counties, and second-largest when such consolidations are excluded. It is also the second-largest state capital by area, following Juneau, Alaska.

Oklahoma City has one of the world's largest livestock markets.^[13] Oil, natural gas, petroleum products, and related industries are its economy's largest sector. The city is in the middle of an active oil field, and oil derricks dot the capitol grounds. The federal government employs a large number of workers at Tinker Air Force Base and the United States Department of Transportation's Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center (which house offices of the Federal Aviation Administration and the Transportation Department's Enterprise Service Center, respectively).

Oklahoma City is on the I-35 and I-40 corridors, one of the primary travel corridors south into neighboring Texas and New Mexico, north towards Wichita and Kansas City, west to Albuquerque, and east towards Little Rock and Memphis. Located in the state's Frontier Country region, the city's northeast section lies in an ecological region known as the Cross Timbers. The city was founded during the Land Run of 1889 and grew to a population of over 10,000 within hours of its founding. It was the site of the April 19, 1995, bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, in which 168 people died,^[14] the deadliest terror attack in U.S. history until the attacks of September 11, 2001, and the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in U.S. history.

Since weather records have been kept beginning in 1890, Oklahoma City has been struck by 13 violent tornadoes, 11 of which were rated F4 or EF4 on the Fujita and Enhanced Fujita scales, and two rated F5 and EF5.^[15]