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Tacoma is a city in Pierce County, Washington, United States. The city is on Washington's Puget Sound.

Tacoma was named after the nearby Mount Rainier. It was first called Mount Tahoma.

References

1 2 3 U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Tacoma, Washington
↑ "2020 U.S. Gazetteer Files". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved July 24, 2022.
↑ "QuickFacts: Tacoma city, Washington". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved March 20, 2024.
↑ "Zip Code Lookup". USPS. Retrieved January 5, 2024.

Seattle metropolitan area
Major cities	Seattle Tacoma Bellevue Everett
Other cities	Bremerton Mount Vernon Oak Harbor Silverdale Anacortes Shelton Olympia
Counties	King Pierce Snohomish Thurston Kitsap Skagit Island Mason

Municipalities and communities of Pierce County, Washington, United States
County seat: Tacoma
Cities	Auburn‡ Bonney Lake Buckley DuPont Edgewood Fife Fircrest Gig Harbor Lakewood Milton‡ Orting Pacific‡ Puyallup Roy Ruston Sumner Tacoma University Place	Map of Washington highlighting Pierce County
Towns	Carbonado Eatonville South Prairie Steilacoom Wilkeson
CDPs	Alder Alderton Anderson Island Artondale Ashford Browns Point Canterwood Clear Lake Clover Creek Crocker Dash Point Elbe Elk Plain Fife Heights Fort Lewis Fox Island Frederickson Graham Greenwater Herron Island Home Kapowsin Ketron Island Key Center La Grande Lake Tapps Longbranch Maplewood McChord AFB McKenna McMillin Midland North Fort Lewis North Puyallup Parkland Prairie Heights Prairie Ridge Purdy Raft Island Rosedale South Creek South Hill Spanaway Stansberry Lake Summit Summit View Vaughn Waller Wauna Wollochet
Other communities	Burnett Cromwell Electron Glencove Lakebay Leber McNeil Island Paradise Tehaleh
Indian reservation	Muckleshoot‡ Puyallup
Military bases	Joint Base Lewis–McChord (Fort Lewis, McChord Field)
Ghost towns	Fairfax Hillhurst Melmont
Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

State of Washington

Olympia (capital)

Politics

Government of Washington (state)	Politics Governors Senate House Congressional delegation

Western Washington	Olympic Peninsula Puget Sound Skagit Valley
Eastern Washington	Methow Valley Palouse
Shared	Cascade Range Columbia River

Seattle Spokane, Washington Tacoma Vancouver Bellevue Kent Everett Renton Yakima Federal Way Spokane Valley Kirkland Bellingham Kennewick Auburn Pasco Marysville Lakewood Redmond Shoreline Richland
Metropolitan areas	Greater Seattle Tri-Cities metropolitan area

All-America City Award Hall of Fame (1949–2021)
Three-time winners	Alexandria, Virginia (1963, 1984, 1985) Allentown, Pennsylvania (1962, 1974, 1975) Asheville, North Carolina (1951, 1969, 1997) Bloomington, Indiana (1958, 1981, 1982) Boston, Massachusetts (1949, 1951, 1962) Cincinnati, Ohio (1949, 1950, 1981) Dayton, Ohio (1951, 1978, 1991) Delray Beach, Florida (1993, 2001, 2017) Edinburg, Texas (1968, 1995, 2000) Fayetteville, North Carolina (1985, 2001, 2011) Fort Worth, Texas (1964, 1993, 2011) Gastonia, North Carolina (1963, 2000, 2010) Grand Rapids, Michigan (1949, 1960, 1981) Hampton, Virginia (1972, 2002, 2014) Hickory, North Carolina (1967, 1987, 2007) Independence, Missouri (1961, 1982, 2001) Laurinburg, North Carolina (1956, 1967, 2003) Louisville, Kentucky (1963, 1995, 2012) Norfolk, Virginia (1959, 2013, 2016) Rochester, New York (1981, 1998, 2020) Seward, Alaska (1963, 1965, 2005) Shreveport, Louisiana (1953, 1980, 1999) Somerville, Massachusetts (1972, 2009, 2015) Spokane, Washington (1975, 2004, 2015) Tacoma, Washington (1956, 1984, 1998)
Four-time winners	Akron, Ohio (1980, 1981, 1995, 2008) Anchorage, Alaska (1956, 1965, 1985, 2002) Baltimore, Maryland (1952, 1977, 1991, 2012) Columbus, Ohio (1958, 1987, 1992, 2006) Fort Wayne, Indiana (1983, 1998, 2009, 2021) Grand Island, Nebraska (1955, 1967, 1981, 1982) New Haven, Connecticut (1958, 1998, 2003, 2008) Peoria, Illinois (1953, 1966, 1989, 2013) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1949, 1951, 1957, 1994) Rockville, Maryland (1954, 1961, 1977, 1979) Toledo, Ohio (1950, 1983, 1984, 1998)
Five-time winners	Cleveland, Ohio (1949, 1982, 1984, 1986, 1993) Dubuque, Iowa (2007, 2012, 2013, 2017, 2019) El Paso, Texas (1969, 2010, 2018, 2020, 2021) Phoenix, Arizona (1950, 1958, 1980, 1989, 2009) Stockton, California (1999, 2004, 2015, 2017, 2018) Tupelo, Mississippi (1967, 1989, 1999, 2011, 2015) Wichita, Kansas (1961, 1993, 1999, 2009, 2019) Worcester, Massachusetts (1949, 1960, 1965, 1981, 2000)
Six-time winners	Des Moines, Iowa (1949, 1977, 1982, 2003, 2010, 2017)
Seven-time winners	Kansas City, Missouri (1950, 1951, 1986, 1994, 2006, 2017, 2021) Roanoke, Virginia (1952, 1979, 1982, 1988, 1996, 2012, 2017) San Antonio, Texas (1949, 1951, 1983, 2012, 2016, 2017, 2018)

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