凤凰城(Phoenix,菲尼克斯),是美国亚利桑那州的州府及最大城市,位于常年干枯的盐河北岸,人口148万,为全美第六大城市。印第安人的Hohokam文明(美国西南部希拉(Gila)河流域史前的沙漠文明)就在今天凤凰城所在的地区发展。19世纪80年代,建设铁路成为凤凰城经济起飞的第一个契机, Phoenix, the state capital and largest city in Arizona, is located on the perennial dry salt north shore of the Salt River with a population of 1.48 million, making it the sixth-largest city in the country. The Hohokam civilization of Indians, the prehistoric desert civilization of the Gila river basin in the southwestern United States, grew in the area where Phoenix is ​​today. In the 1880s, the construction of the railway became the first opportunity for the economic takeoff of Phoenix City.