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Sacramento ( / ˌ s æ k r ə ˈ m ɛ n t oʊ / ; Spanish: [sakɾaˈmento] ) is the capital city of the U.S. state of California and the seat of government of Sacramento County . It is at the confluence of the Sacramento River and the American River in the northern portion of California's expansive Central Valley . Its estimated 2014 population of 485,199 made it the sixth-largest city in California. Sacramento is the cultural and economic core of the Sacramento metropolitan area , which includes seven counties w
Sacramento became a city through the efforts of the Swiss immigrant John Sutter, Sr. , his son John Sutter, Jr. , and James W. Marshall . Sacramento grew quickly thanks to the protection of Sutter's Fort , which was established by Sutter in 1839. During the California Gold Rush , Sacramento was a major distribution point, a commercial and agricultural center, and a terminus for wagon trains , stagecoaches , riverboats , the telegraph , the Pony Express , and the First Transcontinental Railroad .
Sacramento is a former civil parish ( freguesia ) in the city and municipality of Lisbon , Portugal. It had a total area of 0.08 km² and total population of 880 inhabitants (2001); density: 18,864.2 hab/km². At the administrative reorganization of Lisbon on 8 December 2012 it became part of the parish Santa Maria Maior .