What is Six Flags?
{{Infobox company | name = Six Flags Entertainment Corp. | logo = File:Six Flags logo.svg | type = [[Publicly traded company|Public]] ({{NYSE|SIX}}) | foundation = 1962 | location = [[Grand Prairie, Texas]] | key_people = [[Jim Reid-Anderson|James Reid-Anderson]], Chairman, President and CEO<br> John M. Duffey, Chief Financial Officer | industry = [[Amusement park]] operator | area_served = United States<br>Canada<br>Mexico | products = | revenue = {{increase}} US$1.013&nbsp;billion (2011)<ref name=sixflag/> | operating_income = {{increase}} US$143.95&nbsp;million (2008) | net_income = {{increase}} US$13.14&nbsp;million (2011) | num_employees = 1,900 full-time; 27,000 seasonal | parent = | subsid = | homepage = [http://www.sixflags.com www.sixflags.com] | footnotes = }} '''Six Flags Entertainment Corporation''' is a [[company]] that operates 42 [[amusement park]]s in [[Mexico]], the [[United States]] and [[Canada]].<ref name=sixflag>{{cite web |url=http://investors.sixflags.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=61629&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1661282&highlight= |title=Six Flags - Investor Relations - Financial Release |first= |last= |work=investors.sixflags.com |year=2014 |accessdate=23 June 2014 }}{{Dead link|date=May 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> The parks include theme parks, thrill parks, [[water park]]s and family entertainment centers. In 2011, 24.3 million people visited the parks.<ref name=sixflag/> [[File:SixFlagsTrain-4027.jpg|thumb|right|Original [[Six Flags Railroad (Six Flags over Texas)|Six Flags train]] still in operation (2007)]] The name Six Flags, comes from the [[Six flags over Texas|flags of the six different nations that have governed Texas]]: [[Spain]], [[France]], [[Mexico]], the [[Republic of Texas]], the [[United States|United States of America]], and the [[Confederate States of America]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Victoria W. Wolcott|title=Race, Riots, and Roller Coasters: The Struggle Over Segregated Recreation in America|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AJbiA_sBjzYC&pg=PA1