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The city is pronounced as "spo-CAN," but often mispronounced as "spo-CAIN." It's nickname is "The Lilac City".
Spokane is the economic hub of a surrounding agricultural area that serves roughly 1.5 million people. Its immediate metropolitan area is home to roughly 500,000 citizens and the city proper is home to 200,000. It is a rather conservative area, with a rather liberal city proper, and has a fairly small racial minority population around 10%.
Spokane is the county seat of Spokane County. (http://www.spokanecounty.org/)
