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| City of Bloomington, Indiana | |||
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| Country | United States | ||
| State | Indiana | ||
| County | Monroe | ||
| Government | |||
| - Mayor | Mark Kruzan (D) | ||
| Area | |||
| - Total | 19.9 sq mi (51.6 km²) | ||
| - Land | 19.7 sq mi (51.1 km²) | ||
| - Water | 0.2 sq mi (0.5 km²) | ||
| Elevation | 771 ft (235 m) | ||
| Population (2000) | |||
| - Total | 69,291 | ||
| - Density | 3,512/sq mi (1,356.0/km²) | ||
| Time zone | EST (UTC-5) | ||
| - Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC-4) | ||
| ZIP codes | 47400-47499 | ||
| Area code(s) | 812 | ||
| Twin Cities | |||
| - Santa Clara | Cuba | ||
| - Posoltega | Nicaragua | ||
| FIPS code | 18-05860 | ||
| GNIS feature ID | 0431207 | ||
| Website: www.bloomington.in.gov | |||
Bloomington is a city and the county seat of Monroe County in the south central region of the U.S. state of Indiana. The population was 69,291 according to the 2000 census.
Bloomington is the home to Indiana University which was established in 1820 and is attended by approximately 40,000 students and is the original and largest campus of the Indiana University system. In 1991, Thomas Gaines, a landscape artist, published a book, The Campus As a Work of Art, in which he named the Bloomington University campus one of the five most beautiful in America. Most of the campus buildings are built of Indiana limestone. Due to the presence of the university, Bloomington is more diverse demographically than is typical for the state.
Bloomington is also the home of the Indiana University School of Law - Bloomington, the world renowned Jacobs School of Music and Kelley School of Business, the Kinsey Institute, and The Midwest Proton Radiotherapy Institute.
Bloomington has been named a Tree City for more than 20 years. The city was the site of the Academy Award-winning movie Breaking Away, featuring Indiana University's annual bicycle race Little 500. Bloomington is also famous for its rock quarries, also featured in Breaking Away, which residents have been known to use as swimming holes (although nowadays would-be swimmers may have to deal with security officers issuing citations and towing cars at the quarries).
Bloomington has sister-city relationships with Posoltega, Nicaragua, Santa Clara, Cuba, and Luchou Township, Taiwan.
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