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Peoria
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city in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States
Peoria is a city located in Maricopa County in Arizona. It is part of the greater Phoenix metropolitan area in the United States.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- big city
- Named after
- Peoria
- Official name
- Peoria
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Maricopa County
- Population
- 190985
- Area
- 460.942279
- Elevation
- 348
- Time zone
- Mountain Time Zone
- Shares border with
- Surprise
- Official website
- www.peoriaaz.gov
- Image
- Peoria Collage Christian M Williams.JPG
- Households
- 62180
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- Commons category
- Peoria, Arizona
- topic's main category
- Category:Peoria, Arizona
- postal code
- 85385
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Peoria, Arizona
- water as percent of area
- 2.0042
- different from
- Peoria
- native label
- Peoria
- water area
- 9.238304
- per capita income
- 35936
- date of incorporation
- 1954-06-07
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Encyclopedic overview
Peoria (/piˈɔːriə/ pee-OR-ee-ə) is a city in Maricopa and Yavapai counties in the U.S. state of Arizona. Most of the city is located in Maricopa County, while a portion of it in the north is in Yavapai County. It is a major suburb of Phoenix. As of the 2020 census, the population of Peoria was 190,985, up from 154,065 in 2010. It is the sixth-largest city in Arizona in land area and the ninth-largest in population. It was named after Peoria, Illinois. The word peoria is a corruption of the Miami-Illinois word for "prairie fire". It is the spring training home of the San Diego Padres and Seattle Mariners, who share Peoria Sports Complex.
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