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Phoenix is the capital and most populous city of Arizona, with over 1.6 million residents at the 2020 census, making it the fifth-most populous U.S. city and the most populous state capital, while its metropolitan area of 5.19 million residents ranks tenth nationally. Located in the Salt River Valley as the county seat of Maricopa County, Phoenix covers 517.9 square miles, making it Arizona's largest city by area and the 11th-largest in the United States. Founded in 1867 as an agricultural settlement near the confluence of the Salt and Gila Rivers and incorporated in 1881, Phoenix became Arizona Territory's capital in 1889, with its historic canal system enabling farming of alfalfa, cotton, citrus, and hay - the economic foundations known as the "Five C's" alongside cattle and copper. After World War II, the city transitioned from agriculture to high-tech industry as air conditioning enabled growth in its hot desert climate within the Sonoran Desert, achieving a gross domestic product exceeding $362 billion by 2022 and averaging four percent annual population growth from the mid-1960s to mid-2000s. Today, Phoenix serves as Arizona's cultural center with a population that is 42 percent Hispanic, making it one of the largest plurality Hispanic cities in the nation. Mesa is a city in Maricopa County, Arizona, with a population of 504,258 at the 2020 census, making it the third-most populous city in Arizona and the 37th-most populous in the United States. The area has been inhabited for at least 2,000 years, beginning with the Hohokam culture, who constructed sophisticated irrigation canals up to 90 feet wide and 16 miles long that transformed over 110,000 acres of the Sonoran Desert into agricultural land by 1100 CE. Mormon pioneers Daniel Webster Jones and Henry Clay Rogers established the first settlement near present-day Mesa in March 1877, followed by the First Mesa Company in 1878, leading to Mesa City's official registration on July 17, 1878, and incorporation in 1883 with 300 residents. The city is home to at least ten colleges and universities, the Mesa Arizona Temple (one of the first LDS temples built outside Utah), and Mesa Gateway Airport, the largest relief airport in the Phoenix area. Mesa borders Tempe to the west, sits in the East Valley of the Phoenix metropolitan area, and is known for its historical significance in Mormon settlement and its role as a major population center in the greater Phoenix region. Chandler is Arizona's fourth-largest city with a 2020 population of 275,987 located in Maricopa County as part of the Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler Metropolitan Statistical Area. Founded in 1891 by Canadian veterinarian Dr. Alexander John Chandler who acquired 18,000 acres for irrigation and ranching, the city was officially incorporated on February 16, 1920, and grew from 3,800 residents in 1950 to 30,000 by 1980. Today it serves as a major commercial and technology hub hosting manufacturing and headquarters operations for Intel, Northrop Grumman, Wells Fargo, PayPal, and Boeing. Located 22 miles southeast of downtown Phoenix across 65.55 square miles with a subtropical hot desert climate, Chandler has the largest percentage of Asian residents in Arizona at 13.4% and features notable landmarks including the 1913 Hotel San Marcos with Arizona's first grass golf course. The city's economy has been sustained by manufacturing plants for communications and computing firms such as Microchip and Motorola, fueling rapid suburban growth that nearly doubled the population over the last two decades.