Green Bay, Wisconsin - Facts & Figures
Green Bay is a city in and the county seat of Brown County in Wisconsin, at the head of Green Bay, a sub-basin of Lake Michigan, at the mouth of the Fox River. It is 581 feet above sea level and 112 miles north of Milwaukee. Green Bay is the third-largest city in Wisconsin, after Milwaukee and Madison, and the third-largest city on Lake Michigan's west shore, after Chicago and Milwaukee.
Green Bay is home to the National Football League team Green Bay Packers. Green Bay is the principal city of the Green Bay Metropolitan Statistical Area, which covers Brown, Kewaunee, and Oconto counties; the MSA had a combined population of 306,241 at the 2010 census. Green Bay is an industrial city with several meatpacking plants, paper mills and a port on Green Bay, an arm of Lake Michigan known locally as "the Bay of Green Bay". Green Bay hosts the Neville Public Museum, with exhibitions of art, history and science; the Children's Museum; and the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay.
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- Population: 105,139
- Industries: Manufacturing, Retail Trade, Healthcare & Social Assistance
- Area Codes: 920
- ZIP Codes: 54301-08, 54311, 54313, 54324, 54344
- Surrounding Cities: Allouez, WI , Ashwaubenon, WI , Howard, WI , De Pere, WI , Bellevue, WI