Cities

Nashville

Citation Formats

General Reference

Geography Atlas. "Nashville." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://geography.interactiveatlas.org/cities/nashville.

APA Style

Geography Atlas. (n.d.). Nashville. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://geography.interactiveatlas.org/cities/nashville

BibTeX

@misc{geographyatlas-nashville,
  author = {Geography Atlas},
  title = {Nashville},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://geography.interactiveatlas.org/cities/nashville},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

Nashville is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Tennessee, on the Cumberland River in Middle Tennessee. It is a major cultural and economic hub renowned for its dominance in the country music industry and is home to Vanderbilt University. Its consolidated city-county government, formed in 1963 with Davidson County, gives it an unusually large land area for a city of its kind.

Facts

Population

689,447 1

2020 census figure, from Nashville's own Wikipedia infobox (2025 estimate was 721,074).

Area (sq km)

1305.4 1

Founding Year

1806 1

Nashville was founded in 1779 and incorporated September 11, 1806, the incorporation date the infobox itself gives; the large land area reflects the 1963 consolidation of the city and Davidson County governments.

Population Estimate Year

2020 1

Latitude

36.16222 degrees north 1

Longitude

86.77444 degrees west 1

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