Sioux City, Iowa

Woodbury County Plymouth County

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Sioux City is an American city in Woodbury County and Plymouth County in Iowa. It has about 82 684 inhabitants (conditions 2010) in an area of ​​151.5 km ². A certain amount of notoriety in Europe got the city as a setting for the film Flight 232 disaster, which is based on United Airlines Flight 232.

The built here KCAU - TV transmitting mast belongs at present ( 2009) with the highest buildings in the world.

The city is located on the Missouri, whose navigability ends here.

Universities

  • Morningside College
  • Briarcliff University
  • Western Iowa Tech Community College

Twinning

  • United States Lake Charles, United States, since 1995
  • Japan Yamanashi, Japan, since 2003

Sons and daughters of the town

  • William Edwards Deming (1900-1993), a pioneer in the field of quality management
  • Morgan Taylor (1903-1975), Athlete
  • Peggy Gilbert (1905-2007), jazz musician
  • Alan J. Heeger ( b. 1936 ), Nobel Prize winner
  • Tommy Bolin (1951-1976), rock guitarist
  • Ryan Kisor (born 1973 ), jazz trumpeter
  • Kirk Hinrich ( born 1981 ), basketball player
  • Ben Jacobson ( b. 1983 ), basketball player
  • Pauline Phillips (1918-2013), newspaper columnist

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