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Amarillo is the fourteenth-largest city in Texas and the county seat of Potter County. It is is located near the middle of the Texas Panhandle and considered its regional economic center. A 2005 Census estimate placed the city’s population at 183,021. The greater Amarillo metropolitan area, however, consists of four counties and has an estimated population of 236,113. The city is known as “The Yellow Rose of Texas” and most recently “Rotor City, USA” for its V-22 Osprey hybrid aircraft assembly plant. It also was once called the “Helium Capital of the World” for possessing one of the country’s largest helium fields.