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Cincinnati is the third largest city in Ohio. Located in Hamilton County in the southwestern part of the state, Cincinnati was constructed at the confluence between the Licking River and Ohio River and is part of the Cincinnati-Middletown-Wilmington statistical area.
Cincinnati has an estimated population of around 301,000 people, with more than 2.1 million in the surrounding metropolitan area, and covers 79.54 square miles of land. The city was founded in 1788 and named after the Society of the Cincinnati, which, in turn, was named after a Roman military leader called Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus.
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