Roads in Louisville, Kentucky (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The roads of Louisville, Kentucky include Interstates 64, 65 and 71, with a junction in the city center. There are six U.S. highways serving the city. Two beltways surround Louisville. Louisville (usually pronounced / lu . v l/ ( listen); see Pronunciation below) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kentucky, and the county seat of Jefferson County. Since 2003, the city's borders have been coterminous with those of the county because of a city-county merger. The city's estimated population as of 2008 was 713,877 (consolidated; balance total is 557,224), with a population of 1,244,696 in the Louisville metropolitan area. An important internal shipping port in the 19th century, Louisville is today most well known for the Kentucky Derby, the widely watched first race of the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing.