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Lancaster County is a county located in the U.S. state of
Nebraska. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was
285,407, making it the second-most Lancaster County is part of the Lincoln, NE Metropolitan Statistical Area. According to the US Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 846 square miles (2,190 km2), of which 838 square miles (2,170 km2) is land and 8.8 square miles (23 km2) (1.0%) is water.
The city was founded in 1856 as the village of Lancaster on the wild
salt marshes of what was to become Lancaster County. Renamed after
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populous county in Nebraska. Its county seat is Lincoln, the state
capital. The county was created in 1859. 
Lincoln
is the capital city of the U.S. state of Nebraska and the county seat of
Lancaster County. The city covers 96.194 square miles (249.141 km2)
with a population of 289,102 in 2019. It is the second-most populous
city in Nebraska and the 70th-largest in the United States. The city is
the economic and cultural anchor of a substantially larger metropolitan
area in the southeastern part of the state called the Lincoln
Metropolitan and Lincoln-Beatrice Combined Statistical Areas. The
statistical area is home to 356,083 people, making it the 105th-largest
combined statistical area in the United States. 
became Nebraska's state capital in 1869. The Bertram G. Goodhue–designed
state capitol building was completed in 1932, and is the second tallest
capitol in the United States. As the city is the seat of government for
the state of Nebraska, the state and the United States government are
major employers. The University of Nebraska was founded in Lincoln in
1869. The university is the largest in Nebraska with 26,079 students
enrolled, and is the city's third-largest employer. Other primary
employers fall into the service and manufacturing industries, including
a growing high-tech sector. The region makes up a part of what is known
as the greater Midwest Silicon Prairie.