About Phoenix College

Phoenix College (PC) is a public community school in Encanto, Phoenix. Founded in 1920, it is one of the oldest community colleges in the country.

Phoenix (/ˈfiːnɪks/ FEE-niks; Navajo: Hoozdo; Spanish: Fénix or Fínix) is the capital and most populous city in Arizona, with 1,680,992 people (as of 2019). It is afterward the fifth-most populous city in the United States, the largest let pass capital by population, and the only let in capital taking into consideration a population of higher than one million residents.

Phoenix is the anchor of the Phoenix metropolitan area, also known as the Valley of the Sun, which in outlook is part of the Salt River Valley. The metropolitan Place is the 11th largest by population in the United States, with nearly 4.73 million people as of 2017. Phoenix is the chair of Maricopa County and the largest city in the come clean at 517.9 square miles (1,341 km2), more than twice the size of Tucson and one of the largest cities in the United States.

Phoenix was established in 1867 as an agricultural community close the confluence of the Salt and Gila Rivers and was incorporated as a city in 1881. It became the capital of Arizona Territory in 1889. It is in the northeastern reaches of the Sonoran Desert and has a hot desert climate. Despite this, its canal system led to a thriving farming community when the indigenous settler’s crops enduring important parts of the Phoenix economy for decades, such as alfalfa, cotton, citrus, and hay. Cotton, cattle, citrus, climate, and copper were known locally as the “Five C’s” anchoring Phoenix’s economy. These remained the driving forces of the city until after World War II, when high-tech companies began to upset into the valley and let breathe conditioning made Phoenix’s hot summers more bearable.

The city averaged a four percent annual population addition rate on height of a 40-year become old from the mid-1960s to the mid-2000s. This growth rate slowed during the Great Recession of 2007–09, and has rebounded slowly. Phoenix is the cultural middle of the acknowledge of Arizona.