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Rapid City, South Dakota

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Rapid City is the second-largest city in the U.S. state of South Dakota, and the county seat of Pennington County. Rapid City is named after the Rapid Creek on which the city is established. Set against the eastern slope of the Black Hills, the 2005 estimated population of Rapid City was 67,167, and the population of the metropolitan area, defined as Pennington and Meade counties, was 138,763. Rapid City is known as the "Gateway to the Black Hills of South Dakota" and the "Star of the West." The city is divided by a small mountain range that splits the western and eastern parts of the city into two.