Auburn, Alabama

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Auburn is a city in Lee County, Alabama, United States. The population was 76,143 at the 2020 census. It is the largest city in eastern Alabama and is the principal city of the Auburn metropolitan area, which had a population of 193,773 in 2020. It is also included in the greater Columbus–Auburn–Opelika combined statistical area, a region home to 563,967 residents as of 2020. Auburn is a historic college town and home to Auburn University, the highest academically ranked university in the state. It is Alabama's fastest-growing metropolitan area and the 19th-fastest-growing metro area in the United States as measured since 1990. The city's unofficial nickname is "The Loveliest Village on the Plains", taken from a line in the poem The Deserted Village by Oliver Goldsmith: "Sweet Auburn! Loveliest village of the plain..."

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