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