Auburn is a city in Lee County, Alabama, United States. It is the largest city in eastern Alabama 
with a 2006 population of 51,906 (according to the U.S. Census estimates).

It is the principal city of the Auburn Metropolitan Area, a MSA with a population of 123,254 which, 
along with the Columbus, Georgia-Alabama MSA and the Tuskegee, Alabama Micropolitan Statistical Area, 
comprises the greater Columbus-Auburn-Opelika, Georgia-Alabama Combined Statistical Area with an 
estimated population of 276,000.

Auburn is a college town and is the home of Auburn University. Auburn has been marked in recent 
years by rapid growth, and is currently the fastest growing metropolitan area in Alabama and the 
nineteenth-fastest growing metro area in the United States since 1990. 

The city's unofficial nickname is The Loveliest Village On The Plains, taken from a line in the poem 
The Deserted Village by Oliver Goldsmith: "Sweet Auburn! loveliest village of the plain . 

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