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Chandler is an incorporated city in Maricopa County, Arizona, and the fourth-most populous city in the state.

The 2020 census counted 275,987 residents in Chandler.

The city is named for Dr. Alexander J. Chandler, a Canadian who was the first veterinary surgeon in the Arizona Territory; he settled in the area in 1891 and acquired some 18,000 acres.

Chandler's townsite was opened in May 1912, and Chandler High School was established in 1914.

Chandler was incorporated on February 16, 1920, after 186 residents petitioned for incorporation.

The Hotel San Marcos, opened in 1913, featured the first grass golf course in Arizona.

Chandler covers about 65.5 square miles in the southeastern Phoenix metropolitan area.

Chandler is a major technology center: Intel is the city's largest employer with about 12,000 workers, Microchip Technology is headquartered there, and Northrop Grumman, Wells Fargo, and PayPal also have large operations in the city, many along the Price Road Corridor.

Chandler Fashion Center, a major regional shopping mall, opened in 2001.

The annual Ostrich Festival at Tumbleweed Park recalls the ostrich-plume farms that operated in the area in the 1910s, and the city has raised a Christmas tree made of tumbleweeds since 1957.