Iowa City

Iowa City is the seat of the county of Johnson, State of the Iowa, with the the United States. The river of the same name the cross-piece. Until 1857, it was the capital of Iowa, dates to which the capitole of the State was moved with Of the Monks. According to the Census of 2000, the population counts: 62220 inhabitants, which makes the sixth city of Iowa of it. Densité : 416,8 hab/km ² (1 079,4 hab/mi ²). Its total surface area is of 63,3 km ² (24,4 semi ²). It is an important university town. Old the capitole is on the campus of the university of Iowa.

Personalities

Thomas Robert Cech, Nobel Prize of chemistry 1989, grew in Iowa City.

The painter Grant Wood died there in 1942.

The actor Hill Harper was born there in 1966.

To note

In 1964, one of the two first banks of sperm in the world was opened there, the same year as that of Tokyo.

External bonds

Official site.

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