Phoenix is Arizona’s capital and the sixth largest city in the United States with more than 1.4 million residents within 519 square miles, geographically exceeding Los Angeles. Long recognized internationally as one of the fastest-growing and most desirable places to live, the population of Phoenix has doubled in the last thirty years. The Phoenix metropolitan area, known as the Valley of the Sun, is a very diverse community that is home to 25 incorporated cities and towns with a total population in excess of 4.2 million.