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Fort Smith is the second-largest city in Arkansas and one of the two county seats of Sebastian County.

As of the 2010 Census, the population was 86,209.

With an estimated population of 87,443 in 2012, it is the principal city of the Fort Smith, Arkansas-Oklahoma Metropolitan Statistical Area, a region of 298,592 residents that encompasses the Arkansas counties of Crawford, Franklin, and Sebastian and the Oklahoma counties Le Flore and Sequoyah.

Fayetteville is the third-largest city in Arkansas and county seat of Washington County.

The city is centrally located within the county and has been home of the University of Arkansas since the institution's founding in 1871.

Fayetteville is on the outskirts of the Boston Mountains, deep within the Ozarks.

Known as Washington until 1829, the city was named after Fayetteville, Tennessee, from which many of the settlers had come.

It was incorporated on November 3, 1836 and was rechartered in 1867.

The four-county Northwest Arkansas Metropolitan Statistical Area is ranked 105th in terms of population in the United States with 463,204 in 2010 according to the United States Census Bureau.

The city had a population of 73,580 at the 2010 Census.

At 1,400 feet of elevation, it is also one of the highest major US cites between the western Great Plains and the Appalachian Mountains.

Bentonville is the tenth-largest city in Arkansas and the county seat of Benton County.

The city is centrally located in the county with Rogers adjacent to the east.

The city is the headquarters of Walmart, which is the world's largest retailer.

Originally named Osage after the Osage Indians who hunted in the area when white settlers first moved to the area in 1837, the community was renamed to Bentonville in 1843 in honor of Missouri politician Thomas Hart Benton and was first incorporated on April 3, 1873.

It is one of the four main cities in the four-county Northwest Arkansas Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is ranked 109th in terms of population in the United States with 463,204 in 2010 according to the United States Census Bureau.

The city itself had a population of 35,301 at the 2010 Census, with an estimated population of 40,167 in 2013.

KFSM-TV, virtual channel 5 (UHF digital channel 18), is the CBS-affiliated television station for the Arkansas River Valley and Northwest Arkansas that is licensed to Fort Smith.

The station is owned by the Tribune Broadcasting subsidiary of the Tribune Media Company, as part of a duopoly with Eureka Springs-licensed MyNetworkTV affiliate KXNW (channel 34).

KFSM maintains transmitter facilities northwest of Winslow.

The two stations share studio facilities located on North 13th Street in Downtown Fort Smith.

KFSM also operates a secondary studio located on North Shiloh Drive in Fayetteville along US 71B.

Northwest Arkansas (NWA, officially designated by the United States Census Bureau as the Fayetteville–Springdale–Rogers Metropolitan Statistical Area) includes Fayetteville, Springdale, Rogers, and Bentonville, the third, fourth, eighth and tenth largest cities in Arkansas.

These cities are located within Benton and Washington counties; NWA also includes Madison County in Arkansas and McDonald County, Missouri, per the Census Bureau definition.