Auburn Alabama, United States. It is the largest city in eastern Alabama with a 2008 population
of 56,088
Auburn is a college town and is the home of Auburn University. Auburn has been marked in recent years by rapid growth, and is currently the fastest growing metropolitan area in Alabama and the nineteenth-fastest growing metro area in the United States since 1990. U.S.News has ranked Auburn in the top ten in its 2009 list of best places to live in United States[. 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..."
More Olympic swimmers have come from Auburn's swimming program than any other university swimming program.
In the 2008 Beijing Olympics, 19 medals were won by current, former or incoming Auburn students, ranking it higher than Spain, Canada, the Netherlands, Brazil, Kenya, Poland, Hungary and Norway.
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