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Richmond is a city in and the county seat of Madison County, Kentucky, United States.^[1] It is named after Richmond, Virginia, and is the home of Eastern Kentucky University. The population was 32,550 in 2013.^[2]Richmond is the third-largest city in the Bluegrass region (after Louisville and Lexington), the state's seventh-largest city (after Louisville, Lexington, Bowling Green, Owensboro, Covington, and Hopkinsville), and the largest city between Lexington and Knoxville located along Interstate 75. Richmond serves as the center for work and shopping for south-central Kentucky. Richmond is the principal city of the Richmond–BereaMicropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Madison and Rockcastle counties.