Sioux Falls, South Dakota | |
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![]() Downtown Sioux Falls | |
Nickname(s): Best Little City in America, Queen City of the West, The Heart of America | |
![]() Location within Minnehaha County | |
Coordinates: 43°32′11″N 96°43′54″W / 43.53639°N 96.73167°W | |
Country | United States |
State | South Dakota |
Counties | Minnehaha, Lincoln |
Founded | 1879 |
Incorporated | February 4, 1879[1] |
Named for | The waterfall of the Big Sioux River |
Area | |
• City | 81.19 sq mi (210.27 km2) |
• Land | 80.64 sq mi (208.87 km2) |
• Water | 0.54 sq mi (1.40 km2) |
Elevation | 1,463 ft (446 m) |
Population | |
• City | 192,517 |
• Rank | US: 121st SD: 1st |
• Density | 2,387.25/sq mi (921.72/km2) |
• Urban | 194,283 (US: 197th) |
• Urban density | 2,861.3/sq mi (1,104.8/km2) |
• Metro | 289,592 (US: 171st) |
• Metro density | 112.5/sq mi (43.42/km2) |
Demonym | Siouxlander (unofficial) |
Time zone | UTC–6 (Central (CST)) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC–5 (CDT) |
ZIP codes | Zip codes[7] |
Area code | 605 |
GNIS feature ID | 1267566[3] |
Website | siouxfalls.gov |
Sioux Falls (pronounced "sue falls", English pronunciation: /suː fɔːlz/) is a city in the U.S. state of South Dakota. It is the largest city in the state; 192,517 people lived there at the 2020 census.[4] The city is in the eastern part of South Dakota. It is the county seat of Minnehaha County, where most of the city is located. The southern part of the city is in Lincoln County. Sioux Falls became a city in 1876.[8] The city is built around the Big Sioux River, and it gets its name from a set of waterfalls along the river that are located in a park in the city.[9]