Louisville, Kentucky

 Louisville (usually pronounced ['luːaval] is Kentucky's largest city and the 16th largest city of the United States. The settlement that became the City of Louisville was founded in 1778 by George Rogers Clark and is named after King Louis XVI of France. Louisville is most famous as the home of the Kentucky Derby, the most widely watched event in American horse racing.

Louisville is situated on the Kentucky-Indiana border at the only natural obstacle in the Ohio River, the Falls of the Ohio. Because of its proximity to Indiana, the metro area around Louisville is regularly referred to as Kentuckiana.

As of the 2000 census, Louisville had a total population of 256,231. However, in 2003, the city and Jefferson County merged into a single consolidated city-county government named Louisville-Jefferson County Metro Government (official long form) and Louisville Metro (official short form), resulting in a city populated with 703,282 residents (including other incorporated places in the county). The Louisville metropolitan area (not to be confused with Louisville Metro), with a population of approximately 1.3 million, is the largest in Kentucky and also includes some southern Indiana counties (see Geography and climate below). This merger made Louisville the sixteenth most populous city in the U.S.

A resident of Louisville is referred to as a Louisvillian.