The show is set in the fictional town of South Park, Colorado. The town is located in South Park, a geographical area of approximately 1000 square miles which is a high-altitude intermontane grassland basin.[22] South Park is in Park County about 80 miles southwest of Denver and four miles from Fairplay. An unexplained peculiarity is that it is almost always winter in South Park, and there is almost always snow on the ground. This could be because the appearance of the characters, which were first introduced in a Christmas short, were dressed for winter. Cartman mentions in "Jakovasaurs" that there are only two seasons in South Park, winter and July (as seen in such episodes as "Summer Sucks").
The town is served by South Park Elementary and Hell's Pass Hospital; another notable location is Tom's Rhinoplasty. Town police consists almost entirely of Officer Barbrady (not counting county sheriff's deputies Yates and Murphy) and the only discernible politician is Mayor McDaniels. The town flag was changed in "Chef Goes Nanners" because the image of white people lynching a black man was thought racist. The new flag features a black man being lynched by people of all races and nationalities, including another black man. South Park was home to Jesus until his death in "Red Sleigh Down". Other locations included the South Park Wall-Mart (as seen in such episodes as "Something Wall-Mart This Way Comes"), South Park Elementary's closed-circuit television station (as seen in such episodes as "Quest for Ratings"), the South Park community center (as seen in such episodes as "Two Days Before the Day After Tomorrow" and "Cartoon Wars Part I"), South Parks own adaptation of the Colorado Cave of the Winds tourist attraction (as seen in such episodes as "ManBearPig"), and the South Park arcade (as seen in such episodes as "Guitar Queer-o").
South Park is inspired by both real-life towns in the South Park basin such as Fairplay and the Denver suburbs such as Littleton, the sites of the respective upbringings of South Park co-creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone.
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