Iowa City, officially the City of Iowa City is a city in Johnson County, Iowa, United States. It is the house of the University of Iowa and county chair of Johnson County, at the center of the Iowa City Metropolitan Statistical Area. At the grow old of the 2020 census the population was 74,828, making it the state’s fifth-largest city. The metropolitan area, which encompasses Johnson and Washington counties, has a population of beyond 171,000. The Iowa City Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) is moreover a part of a Combined Statistical Area (CSA) with the Cedar Rapids MSA. This CSA gain two new counties are known as the Iowa City-Cedar Rapids region which collectively has a population of approximately 500,000.

Iowa City was the second capital of the Iowa Territory and the first capital city of the State of Iowa. The Old Capitol building is a National Historic Landmark in the middle of the University of Iowa campus. The University of Iowa Art Museum and Plum Grove, the home of the first Governor of Iowa, are furthermore tourist attractions. In 2008, Forbes magazine named Iowa City the second-best small metropolitan Place for bill business in the United States.

Iowa City was created by an dogfight of Legislative Assembly of the Iowa Territory on January 21, 1839, fulfilling the want of Governor Robert Lucas to concern the capital out of Burlington and closer to the middle of the territory. This combat began:

Commissioners Chauncey Swan and John Ronalds met on May 1 in the small settlement of Napoleon, south of present-day Iowa City, to prefer a site for the further capital city. The later than day the commissioners selected a site on bluffs above the Iowa River north of Napoleon, placed a stake in the center of the proposed site and began planning the supplementary capital city. Commissioner Swan, in a tally to the legislature in Burlington, described the site: