Alexandria is a city in and the parish seat of Rapides Parish, Louisiana, United States. It lies on the south bank of the Red River in almost the exact geographic center of the state. It is the principal city of the Alexandria metropolitan area (population 147,000) which encompasses all of Rapides and Grant parishes. Its neighboring city is Pineville. In mid-2008, the population was 50,236, according to an official estimate by the College of Business Population Estimates Program at Louisiana Tech University.

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