Philadelphia

Philadelphia, the city of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania, USA

Location

▶ the United States, Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania 717 telephone code area, the Pennsylvania 570 telephone code area, the Pennsylvania 814 telephone code area,  …

the Pennsylvania 610 telephone code area, the Pennsylvania 484 telephone code area, the Pennsylvania 267 telephone code area, the Pennsylvania 215 telephone code area

Location of

▶ University of Pennsylvania; Comcast Corporation; Philadelphia 76ers; Philadelphia Flyers; Kappa Alpha Psi;  …

Temple University; Comcast Center; Second Bank of the United States; Urban Outfitters; First Bank of the United States; Drexel University; SS United States; Wachovia Center; Eastern State Penitentiary; Citizens Bank Park; Rocky Steps; Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania; Combat Zone Wrestling; Versus; Veterans Stadium; Lincoln Highway; Philadelphia City Hall; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Philadelphia International Airport; Lincoln Financial Field; Soft Construction with Boiled Beans; Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2; The Philadelphia Inquirer; West Philadelphia; Saint Joseph's University; Philadelphia Soul; Sunoco; Wanamaker's; American Commerce Center; Sovereign Bank; Shibe Park; 30th Street Station; The Basket of Bread; Pat's Steaks; Germantown; John F. Kennedy Stadium; One Liberty Place; La Salle University; Pep Boys Manny Moe & Jack; Franklin Field; ARAMARK; Mütter Museum; Philadelphia Zoo; Benjamin Franklin Bridge; Baker Bowl; Independence Hall; Independence Hall; North Philadelphia; Franklin Institute; Rittenhouse Square; Tastykake; South Street; Manayunk, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; WIP; Thomas Jefferson University; Curtis Institute of Music; Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Rohm and Haas; WMMR; Fairmount Park; Kensington; CIGNA; FEARnet; University of Pennsylvania Law School; American Philosophical Society; University of the Arts; Italian Market; Mount Airy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; WYSP; Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools; Walt Whitman Bridge; Fort Mifflin; Philadelphia Stock Exchange; Barnes Foundation of Philadelphia; Cira Centre; Franklin Mills; Philadelphia Naval Shipyard; Strawberry Mansion, Pennsylvania; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; Fleer; Society Hill, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; National Constitution Center; Penn's Landing; Overbrook High School; University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine; Pennsylvania Hospital; Independence National Historical Park; Boathouse Row; Strawbridge's; Union League; Suburban Station; Chestnut Hill College; Two Liberty Place; Port Richmond; Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine; Drexel University College of Medicine; Betsy Ross Bridge; KYW; Chinatown, Philadelphia; Mellon Bank Center; Northern Liberties, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Washington Square West, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; WXPN; NBC Universal Television Distribution; The Gallery at Market East; Frankford; Please Touch Museum; New Alhambra Arena; Fishtown, Pennsylvania; Philadelphia Savings Fund Society; WPHT; Hay Group; Rodin Museum; Xlibris; WIOQ; Betsy Ross House; The Bathers; WRFF; FMC Corp.; Temple University Beasley School of Law; Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site; Old City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Market Street; Reading Terminal; Benjamin Franklin National Memorial; University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology; Philadelphia Arena; Dechert; Trump Tower; Elfreth's Alley; WBEB; Christ Church, Philadelphia; Philadelphia High School for Girls; WOGL; Morgan, Lewis & Bockius; Warren Publishing; Girard College; Carpenters' Hall; WRDW-FM; ROH Take No Prisoners; Fairmount, Pennsylvania; Laurel Hill Cemetery; Edwin Forrest; Northeast High School; Simon Gratz High School; Olney, Pennsylvania; SEPTA Suburban Division bus routes; American College of Physicians; Amoroso's Baking Company; WMGK; Suncorp-Metway; Wynnefield, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Peirce College; Washington Square; Comcast-Spectacor; Grays Ferry, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Brewerytown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; American Stores; Moore College of Art and Design; WISX; WDAS-FM; The Agnew Clinic; Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, Philadelphia; Saint Joseph's Preparatory School; Central High School; Fox Chase, Pennsylvania; East Falls, Pennsylvania; Academy of Natural Sciences; Blank Rome; WUSL; Bella Vista, Pennsylvania; Community College of Philadelphia; Philadelphia Bulletin; Overbrook; Father Judge High School; Swann Memorial Fountain; Holmesburg, Pennsylvania; Franklin Square; Walnut Street; John Bartram High School; Philadelphia High School for Creative and Performing Arts; WHYY-FM; WFIL; Primavera Systems; Fairmount Water Works; WXTU; Christ Church Burial Ground; Thaddeus Kosciuszko National Memorial; Esherick House; Bell Atlantic Tower; Logan Circle; Academy of Music; Cradle of Liberty Council; Tyler School of Art; Frankford Arsenal

Population

1,556,396; 1,547,901; 28,500; 1,540,351; 1,447,395

Website

http://www.phila.gov

Area

142.6 square miles, 349.648394895 square kilometres, 369.4 square kilometres, 135 square miles

Population density

▶ 11,457 per square mile; 11,410 per square mile; 4,405.4 per square kilometre; 10,721.4 per square mile; 4,140.1 per square kilometre;  …

10,882.8 per square mile; 4,201.8 per square kilometre

Births

▶ Will Smith, Kobe Bryant, Bill Cosby, Seth Green, Noam Chomsky,  …

Asher Roth, Kevin Bacon, Wilt Chamberlain, Billie Holiday, Grace Kelly, Bradley Cooper, Richard Gere, Bob Saget, Kat Dennings, David Boreanaz, Joan Jett, Lisa Lopes, Gia Carangi, Kate Gosselin, Santogold, Terri Schiavo, Amber Lynn, Joanna Pacitti, Jazmine Sullivan, Tommy Dreamer, Jeremiah Wright, Adam Carolla, Bernard Hopkins, Katherine Moennig, Joey Lawrence, Man Ray, Jill Scott, Gary Dourdan, Todd Rundgren, Jim Croce, Michelle Malkin, DJ Drama, Beanie Sigel, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Nancy Spungen, Louisa May Alcott, Kurupt, Chris Matthews, Rob McElhenney, Frederick Winslow Taylor, Margaret Mead, Stevie Richards, George B. McClellan, Eddie George, Patti LaBelle, Tammi Terrell, Musiq, Scott Patterson, Nick Berg, Charli Baltimore, Adam Goldstein, Jim Fullington, Alexander Calder, Blythe Danner, Andrew Lawrence, Bianca Ryan, Marian Anderson, Kevin Hart, Road Warrior Animal, Teller, Jack Klugman, Chuck Barris, John Barrymore, Holland Taylor, Rasheed Wallace, Mario Lanza, Frankie Avalon, Phyllis Hyman, Sherman Hemsley, Roxy Reynolds, Linda Fiorentino, Thomas F. Wilson, Eddie Fisher, Teddy Pendergrass, Betsy Ross, Larry Fine, Adam McKay, Robert Crumb, William Guarnere, W. C. Fields, Toni Basil, Alexander Haig, Lionel Barrymore, Kim Delaney, Kelly Monaco, Michael Buffer, David Miscavige, Marvin Harrison, Karen Malina White, Khia, Robert Picardo, DeSean Jackson, Sidney Lumet, Mark Indelicato, Annie Sprinkle, Kyle Gallner, Suzy Kolber, Stan Getz, Gerald Levert, Kate Flannery, Robert K. Merton, Joe Bryant, Justin Levens, Kevin Eubanks, Tara Lipinski, April Hunter, John Laurinaitis, Fabian, Stanley Clarke, Lauren Cohan, Andrew Bryniarski, Danny Woodburn, Bruce Davison, Eric Wareheim, Philip Zimbardo, Michael Rady, Paige Davis, Francine Fournier, Mirah, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Guggenheim, Albert Blithe, Black Thought, Rich Gannon, Marc Nelson, Thomas Eakins, James Darren, Gloria Allred, Jim E. Mora, Parker Stevenson, Michael Connelly, J. Howard Marshall, Robert Prosky, Samuel Byck, Norman Fell, Robert Venturi, Sarah Chang, Ed Wynn, Eddie Griffin, Bruce Smith, John de Lancie, Roy Campanella, Solomon Burke, Henry Gibson, Evil Jared Hasselhoff, Wanya Morris, Lisa P. Jackson, Ethel Barrymore, Michael Medved, ?uestlove, Thomas Meehan III, Paul R. Ehrlich, Paul McCrane, Whittaker Chambers, Ira Einhorn, Amar Bose, Kelly O'Dell, Hank Gathers, Marty Stuart, Pete Conrad, Holly Robinson, Ed Bradley, Al Martino, Donald Barthelme, Henry George, Caleb Deschanel, Lloyd Alexander, Michael Brecker, Schoolly D, Taija Rae, Curly Joe DeRita, Janet Gaynor, Bill Tilden, Lee Morgan, Randal Pinkett, Amber Rose, Nancy Walker, Michael Kelly, Werner Erhard, Bobby Rydell, Jennifer Lynch, Earl Monroe, Jeanette MacDonald, Guion Bluford, Joseph Merlino, Maxfield Parrish, Larry Bishop, Richard Deacon, McCoy Tyner, Imogene Coca, Jon Polito, Stephen A. Schwarzman, Stevie Williams, Angelo Dundee, Lois Duncan

Capital of, County Seat of

Philadelphia County, PA

Origin of

▶ Boyz II Men, Joan Jett, The Roots, Scott Storch, Cassidy,  …

Eve, Santogold, Joanna Pacitti, Jedi Mind Tricks, Jill Scott, Hall & Oates, Jim Croce, DJ Drama, Anthony Green, Patti LaBelle, Tammi Terrell, Musiq, Charli Baltimore, Circa Survive, Freeway, Bianca Ryan, DJ Jazzy Jeff, Phyllis Hyman, Chubby Checker, Teddy Pendergrass, Toni Basil, The Stylistics, Stan Getz, Amos Lee, Melody Gardot, Young Gunz, Army of the Pharaohs, Book of Love, Stanley Clarke, Michael McCary, DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince, mewithoutYou, John Oates, Crystal Waters, Black Thought, Diplo, The Hooters, Dr. Dog, Evil Jared Hasselhoff, Wanya Morris, Don Cannon, The Delfonics, ?uestlove, Labelle, John Corabi, Bilal, Diplo, Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes, Nathan Morris, Valencia, Shawn Stockman, Schoolly D, Vinnie Paz, Lee Morgan, Princess Superstar, Re-Up Gang, Drag On, McCoy Tyner, Cindy Birdsong, G. Love & Special Sauce, Nona Hendryx, Andrea McArdle, Santigold, Sterling Simms, Britny Fox, Dead Milkmen, Amanda Blank, Maze, Jon Fishman, MFSB, Nikki Jean, Milton Babbitt, Evelyn King, Cool C, Sam Fogarino, Peedi Peedi, Outerspace, Silvertide, Bahamadia, The Last Emperor, Steady B, Blue Magic, Richie Rosenberg, Cyssero, A Life Once Lost, Matt Pond PA, Stoupe the Enemy of Mankind, Josh Wink, Philadelphia Orchestra, Owen Biddle, Tim, Disco Biscuits, Ms. Jade, Hugh McDonald, Rosetta, Christian McBride, Larsiny Family, Nick Perri, Paint It Black, Ink & Dagger, Bardo Pond, David Bromberg, Reef the Lost Cauze, McFadden & Whitehead, Kevin Michael, The Orlons, The Spooks, Chief Kamachi, Alexander Courage, Kindred the Family Soul, Paul Motian, Brian Chippendale, Gail Ann Dorsey, Kid Dynamite, Ursula Rucker, Denny Dias, Sarah Dash, Eddie Lang, Marah, Hot Cross, Espers, Fat Larry's Band, Thom Bell, Pretty Poison, Da Youngstas, Da’ T.R.U.T.H., The Tymes, Starkweather, Liam Wilson, Ray Benson, The Nazz, Wyldfyer, Blacklisted, Saxon Shore, Bobby Timmons, Alec Ounsworth, The Cross Movement, Joey DeFrancesco, George Howard, David Tudor, Dysrhythmia, Joe Bonsall, The Ambassador, Jamal Phillips, First Choice, The Lost Children of Babylon, A Sunny Day in Glasgow, Lynda Laurence, Bilal Oliver, Zhané, Reggie Workman, Jay Bezel, Antje Duvekot, Breakwater, Pieces of a Dream, Instant Funk, Mountain Brothers, Jimmy Heath, The Young Werewolves, Laraaji, Tracey Lee, Tuff Crew, Da Youngsta's, Pamela Williams, Paul Green, Chuck Treece, Rumpelstiltskin Grinder, Charlie Biddle, Wykked Wytch, The Kinleys, Christian Martucci, Ted Weems, Tone trump, Jon Gutwillig, Henry Grimes, Cesium 137, The Teeth, Rex Stewart, The Brakes, Dandelion, Voices of Theory, Stinking Lizaveta, Courtney Cox, J.R., Omillio Sparks, Ari Hoenig, David Ricketts, Phanatik, Jim Boggia, Mutlu, Scott Sorry, Jim Beard, Luckey Roberts, Francis Johnson, Eastern Conference Champions

Elevation

39 feet, 12 metres

Mayor

Michael Nutter, Alexander Henry

Subsidiaries

Veterans Stadium, Lincoln Financial Field, John F. Kennedy Stadium

Wikipedia Page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia,_Pennsylvania

Contents

▶ University of Pennsylvania; Philadelphia Phillies; Comcast Corporation; Urban Outfitters; Drexel University;  …

Combat Zone Wrestling; Elsevier; Saint Joseph's University; Sunoco; Sovereign Bank; La Salle University; Pep Boys Manny Moe & Jack; Exelon; ARAMARK; Tastykake; Thomas Jefferson University; Curtis Institute of Music; Anime International Company; Rohm and Haas; CIGNA; University of Pennsylvania Law School; University of the Arts; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; Judith Rodin; Strawbridge's; Lincoln National Corporation; Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine; Brian L. Roberts; Electric Factory; Richard Hayne; William Penn Charter School; Hay Group; Xlibris; FMC Corp.; Dechert; Philadelphia High School for Girls; Morgan, Lewis & Bockius; Warren Publishing; American College of Physicians; Amoroso's Baking Company; Peirce College; Comcast-Spectacor; American Stores; Moore College of Art and Design; Saint Joseph's Preparatory School; Central High School; Blank Rome; Community College of Philadelphia; Father Judge High School; AAMCO; Art Institute of Philadelphia; West Philadelphia Catholic High School; Duane Morris; J. G. Brill and Company; Roman Catholic High School for Boys; Philadelphia Media Holdings LLC; Holy Family University; Northeast Catholic High School; Chestnut Hill Academy; Jerrold Electronics; Girard Academic Music Program; Beneficial Bank; Drinker, Biddle & Reath; Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics; American Association for Cancer Research; Cardinal Dougherty High School; Aker Philadelphia Shipyard; J. W. Hallahan Catholic Girls High School; Litt Brothers; Pepper Hamilton; Prometheus Radio Project; Yards Brewing Company; Talmudical Yeshiva of Philadelphia; The Restaurant School at Walnut Hill College; Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust; PhillyCarShare; Friends Select School; AppLabs; Diamond State Telephone; David McKay Publications; Thomas P. Gerrity; Little Flower Catholic High School for Girls; Nazareth Academy High School; St. Hubert Catholic High School for Girls; Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia; Saul Ewing; Springside School; The Cherry Street Tavern; Academy of Vocal Arts; Spiral Q Puppet Theater; Radian Group; Sigma Iota Rho; BTG; McGillin's Olde Ale House; Triumph Brewing Company; American Medical Women's Association; Saints John Neumann and Maria Goretti Catholic High School; Reliance Insurance Company; Neighborhood Bike Works; Mercy Vocational High School; Casemate Publishers; Hussian School of Art; Orleans Technical Institute-Court Reporting Program; Society of Hospital Medicine; Edison/Fareira High School; National Massage Therapy Institute; Lincoln Technical Institute; Lincoln Technical Institute; L T International Beauty School; Jna Institute of Culinary Arts; Prism Career Institute; Jean Madeline Aveda Institute; Philadelphia School of Radiologic Technology; Northeastern Hospital School of Nursing; Star Technical Institute-Philadelphia; Empire Beauty School-Philadelphia Chestnut St; DPT Business School; Aviation Institute of Maintenance-Philadelphia; Orleans Technical Institute; Thompson Institute; Metropolitan Career Center Computer Technology Institute; Lincoln Technical Institute; Center for Innovative Training and Education; CHI Institute; Frankford Hospital School of Nursing; Episcopal School of Nursing; Empire Beauty School-Philadelphia Woodhaven Rd; Delaware Valley Academy of Medical and Dental Assistants; Roxborough Memorial Hospital School of Nursing; Philadelphia University; Douglas N Miller; Mark A Kerschner; Karen Rohan; Carol Ann Petren; George Tiger; Jonathan Hirt Hagen; Anne M Wilms; Joseph A Cirelli; Joseph J. Collins; Jonathen Bell; Joseph R Corrato; Sanford A Ibrahim; Robert F Mccadden; Ravichandra Krishnamurty Saligram; Kenneth Shropshire; Walter Stanley Sobon; Brian Edward Dowd; Joseph Neubauer; John A Fry; William A Carter; David Schlessinger; D Michael Wilson; John Calamari; Robert J. Darnall; William R Bagnell; Roger H Ballou; H Edward Hanway; Ronald J Kozich; Tedford G Marlow; Charles P Pizzi; Lawrence Joseph Fox; Blake Thompson; Autumn R Bayles; L Frederick Sutherland; Seldeneck Judith M Von; Charles R. Shoemate; Sheldon M. Bonovitz; C Robert Quint; Robert H Strouse; S. Decker Anstrom; Stephens S Phillips; James C Hellauer; Frank P Filipps; John J Gavin; Jonathan Z Cohen; Glen T Senk; Rosemarie B. Greco; Harry Madonna; Robert W. Owens; Scott A Belair; Cecilia J Venglarik; Theodore H Butz; David K Downes; Joseph R Seiders; Lawrence C Karlson; Ursula F. Fairbairn; Louis J Decesare Jr; Thomas W. Hofmann; George Strawbridge Jr; Howard Bernard Culang; Richard J Pinola; Deborah M Fretz; Joel M D Morganroth; G & Hunting Park El Sch ; Barry Comm John Sch ; Audenried Shs ; Arts Academy At Benjamin Rush ; Barry Comm John Sch ; Saint Maria Goretti High School; Saint John Neumann High School; Rocky Anderson

Broadcast Area of

▶ WPHT, WHTG-FM, WFIL, WNTP, WUBA,  …

WHAT, WKMK, WKDU, WDRE, WNWR, WURD, WDNR, WEMG, WCUR, WNJC, WSRN-FM, WQHS Radio, WBCB, WEXP, WGLS-FM, WSJI, WVBV

Established

October 27th 1682

Slogan

"Philadelphia maneto", ""Philadelphia maneto" ("Let brotherly love endure")", ""Philadelphia maneto" - "Let brotherly love endure""

Closest Airport

Philadelphia International Airport, Northeast Philadelphia Airport, Greater Binghamton Airport, Wings Field

Deaths

▶ Benjamin Franklin; Gia Carangi; David Ruffin; John Marshall; H. H. Holmes;  …

Paul Robeson; Frederick Winslow Taylor; Tammi Terrell; Smedley Butler; Teddy Pendergrass; Betsy Ross; Robert Patterson; Erving Goffman; Lucretia Mott; Zero Mostel; Pearl Bailey; Benjamin Rush; George Meade; Clifford Geertz; Connie Mack; Dexter Gordon; Gary Papa; Skip James; Robert Morris; Altovise Davis; Vincent Gardenia; Angelo Bruno; John Wanamaker; Nicholas Biddle; Charles Lee; Steven Wells; Peyton Randolph; Rocco Rock; Edgar Lee Masters; George M. Dallas; William Bainbridge; Thomas McKean; Daniel Faulkner; Uziel Gal; Wallace Carothers; John Randolph of Roanoke; Toni Cade Bambara; Rembrandt Peale; Edward Drinker Cope; Robert Morris; Francis Hopkinson; Jay Cooke; Bushrod Washington; Loren Eiseley; Kathy Change; Samuel Nicholas; Henry Deringer; Eugene Ormandy; Philly Joe Jones; Jimmy Young; John Neumann; John Neumann; John B. Kelly; John Africa; Rebecca Cole; Ethel Hedgeman Lyle; Ethel Hedgeman Lyle; Chief Bender; Charles Duryea; Sue Randall; George Gerbner; Pierce Butler; Stephen Girard; Tamanend; Charles Pettigrew; David Rittenhouse; Absalom Jones; Alan MacDiarmid; Bert Bell; John Whitehead; John Barry; John Bartram; Sonny Banks; Jimmy McGriff; Henry E. Huntington; Joseph Wharton; Andrew Hamilton; David Goodis; Richard Rush; Constantine Papadakis; Leonard Tose; Maurice Hilleman; Joseph Hewes; Edwin Forrest; Nicholas Gilman; Thomas Sully; Maggie Kuhn; Ndabaningi Sithole; Anthony Benezet; Alexander Wilson; Jared Ingersoll; George Rochberg; Samuel Francis du Pont; Jessie Willcox Smith; Jimmy Dykes; Isaac Hull; Luther Leonidas Terry; Bart King; David Cohen; Joe Kuharich; William Farrar Smith; David Burns; David B. Birney; John Drew; Harry Nelson Pillsbury; Alexander J. Dallas; Constantine Samuel Rafinesque-Schmaltz; Frank Capra; Robert Arthur; Henry Baldwin; Pierre Eugene du Simitiere; Donald Byrne; John R. Brooke; Octavius Catto; Josiah Harmar; Anthony Joseph Drexel I; Alice Dunbar-Nelson; Jean Leon Gerome Ferris; Joseph Reed; Timothy Shay Arthur; Johannes Kelpius; Don Lippincott; William Jackson; Nina Berberova; George Henry White; Galusha Pennypacker; Charles Emory Smith; Alexander Cassatt; Robert Cooper Grier; Albert Schatz; Daniel Barringer; Anthony J. Drexel Biddle; Michael Hillegas; John Taylor; George Lippard; John Rodgers (naval officer; Otto Fritz Meyerhof; Hans Kohn; Donnie Elbert; Francis Martin Drexel; Philip Francis Nowlan; Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden; Charles E. Rosendahl; Littleton Waller; Godfrey Weitzel; Francis Daniel Pastorius; M. Carey Thomas; Alexander Wiley; Samuel W. Crawford; Frank Coleman; Matt Guokas, Sr.; Barry Ashbee; David Cass; Ann Jarvis; Edward Coles; Anne d'Harnoncourt; Matthias W. Baldwin; Matt Kilroy; John Palmer Usher; John Sergeant; Hermann Ottomar Herzog; R. Tait McKenzie; Benjamin Franklin Tilley; John Gregory Bourke; Francis Anthony Drexel; William Williams Keen; Ruth Malcomson; Joel Parker; Cornelius P. Van Ness; Edie Huggins; Violet Oakley; Dennis Joseph Dougherty; Petro Dyachenko; Thomas Willing; William Ticknor; Alexander Mack; Frederic Eugene Ives; Chevalier Jackson; John Lewis Krimmel; Henry D. Gilpin; Victor Marie du Pont; Jacob Jones; John G. Townsend; Bart McGhee; Robert Montgomery Bird; James Campbell; George Wolf; Henry Tazewell; Harold Furth; Bob Montgomery; Henry S. Huidekoper; Lucien E. Blackwell; Max Rudolf; Christian Gobrecht; Tarzan Cooper

Coordinates

39°57'07.92"N, 39°57'07"N, 75°09'51.12"W, 75°09'51"W

End of

▶ Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike, Interstate 676, Pennsylvania Route 611, Pennsylvania Route 23, Pennsylvania Route 73,  …

Pennsylvania Route 3, City Avenue, Bethlehem Pike, Pennsylvania Route 291, Pennsylvania Route 232

Locations

▶ the Pennsylvania 717 telephone code area, the Pennsylvania 570 telephone code area, the Pennsylvania 814 telephone code area, the Pennsylvania 610 telephone code area, the Pennsylvania 484 telephone code area,  …

the Pennsylvania 267 telephone code area, the Pennsylvania 215 telephone code area

Overlaps

▶ Poquessing Creek, ZIP code 19255, ZIP code 19244, ZIP code 19197, ZIP code 19196,  …

ZIP code 19195, ZIP code 19194, ZIP code 19193, ZIP code 19192, ZIP code 19191, ZIP code 19190, ZIP code 19188, ZIP code 19187, ZIP code 19185, ZIP code 19184, ZIP code 19183, ZIP code 19182, ZIP code 19181, ZIP code 19179, ZIP code 19178, ZIP code 19177, ZIP code 19176, ZIP code 19175, ZIP code 19173, ZIP code 19172, ZIP code 19171, ZIP code 19170, ZIP code 19162, ZIP code 19161, ZIP code 19160, ZIP code 19155, ZIP code 19154, ZIP code 19153, ZIP code 19152, ZIP code 19151, ZIP code 19150, ZIP code 19149, ZIP code 19148, ZIP code 19147, ZIP code 19146, ZIP code 19145, ZIP code 19144, ZIP code 19143, ZIP code 19142, ZIP code 19141, ZIP code 19140, ZIP code 19139, ZIP code 19138, ZIP code 19137, ZIP code 19136, ZIP code 19135, ZIP code 19134, ZIP code 19133, ZIP code 19132, ZIP code 19131, ZIP code 19130, ZIP code 19129, ZIP code 19128, ZIP code 19127, ZIP code 19126, ZIP code 19125, ZIP code 19124, ZIP code 19123, ZIP code 19122, ZIP code 19121, ZIP code 19120, ZIP code 19119, ZIP code 19118, ZIP code 19116, ZIP code 19115, ZIP code 19114, ZIP code 19113, ZIP code 19112, ZIP code 19111, ZIP code 19110, ZIP code 19109, ZIP code 19108, ZIP code 19107, ZIP code 19106, ZIP code 19105, ZIP code 19104, ZIP code 19103, ZIP code 19102, ZIP code 19101, ZIP code 19099, ZIP code 19093, ZIP code 19092, ZIP code 19019

Pet Name

""Philly", "City of Brotherly Love","The Illadelph", "The City that Loves you Back", "Cradle of Liberty", "The Quaker City", "The Birthplace of America","The City of Neighborhoods""; ""Philly", "City of Brotherly Love","The Illadelph","The City that Loves you Back", "Cradle of Liberty", "The Quaker City", "The Birthplace of America","The City of Neighborhoods""; ""Philly", "City of Brotherly Love", "The City that Loves you Back", "Cradle of Liberty", "The Quaker City", "The Birthplace of America","The City of Neighborhoods""; ""Philly", "City of Brotherly Love","The City that Loves you Back", "Cradle of Liberty", "The Quaker City", "The Birthplace of America","The City of Neighborhoods""

Borders

New Jersey; Montgomery County, PA; Bucks County, PA; Delaware County, NY

Residents

▶ Will Smith, Kobe Bryant, Tina Fey, Sylvester Stallone, Bill Cosby,  …

Seth Green, Noam Chomsky, Kevin Bacon, Mary Cassatt, Wilt Chamberlain, Grace Kelly, Bradley Cooper, Richard Gere, Allen Iverson, Bob Saget, M. Night Shyamalan, Kat Dennings, David Boreanaz, Joan Jett, Gia Carangi, Scott Storch, John Coltrane, David Ruffin, Joe Frazier, Santogold, Benjamin Netanyahu, Jamie Kennedy, Bernard Hopkins, Man Ray, Arlen Specter, Gary Dourdan, Todd Rundgren, Michelle Malkin, David Morse, Donovan McNabb, DJ Drama, Beanie Sigel, Chris Matthews, Rob McElhenney, Anthony Green, Stevie Richards, George B. McClellan, Eddie George, Scott Patterson, Charli Baltimore, Adam Goldstein, Jim Fullington, Blythe Danner, Freeway, Andrew Lawrence, Marian Anderson, Teller, Jack Klugman, Chuck Barris, John Barrymore, Holland Taylor, Rasheed Wallace, Mario Lanza, Frankie Avalon, Sherman Hemsley, Roxy Reynolds, Linda Fiorentino, Thomas F. Wilson, Alycia Lane, Larry Fine, Robert Crumb, W. C. Fields, Alexander Haig, Lionel Barrymore, Kim Delaney, Kelly Monaco, David Miscavige, Marvin Harrison, Karen Malina White, Khia, Robert Picardo, Sidney Lumet, Louis Kahn, Mark Indelicato, Ana Ortiz, Annie Sprinkle, Suzy Kolber, Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe, Kate Flannery, Melody Gardot, Joe Bryant, Justin Levens, Ed Rendell, Tara Lipinski, April Hunter, Fabian, Andrew Bryniarski, Danny Woodburn, Bruce Davison, Lola Falana, Michael Rady, John Dickinson, Mirah, Benjamin Rush, Black Thought, Jimmy Rollins, Rich Gannon, Steve Corino, Thomas Eakins, James Darren, Gloria Allred, Parker Stevenson, Toukie Smith, Norman Fell, Robert Venturi, Sarah Chang, Ed Wynn, Eddie Griffin, John de Lancie, Austin Aries, Roy Campanella, Henry Gibson, Ethel Barrymore, Michael Medved, Jessica Savitch, Paul McCrane, Ira Einhorn, Kelly O'Dell, Hank Gathers, Charles Dera, Pete Conrad, Holly Robinson, Ed Bradley, Dilshad Vadsaria, Al Martino, Caleb Deschanel, Lloyd Alexander, Taija Rae, Curly Joe DeRita, Janet Gaynor, Vinnie Paz, Tony Chimel, Randal Pinkett, Nancy Walker, Werner Erhard, Bobby Rydell, Earl Monroe, Jonathan Loughran, Jeanette MacDonald, Guion Bluford, Maxfield Parrish, Richard Deacon, Imogene Coca, Monie Love, Jon Polito, Lois Duncan, Bobby Convey, Billy Paul, John Doman, Martha Gellhorn, William Franklin, Veronica Hamel, Richie Ashburn, Clark Johnson, John Cappelletti, Harald zur Hausen, Cindy Birdsong, David Brenner, Gregory Michael, Richard Helms, Mike Powell, Stephen Macht, Harold Stassen, John Salmons, Mathew St. Patrick, Dennis Christopher, Stan Lathan, Michael Nutter, Angelo Bruno, Jean Vander Pyl, Jim McKay, Sean Singletary, James Rebhorn, Richard Lester, Tony Bruno, Frank Sheeran, John Wanamaker, Walter E. Williams, Shane Claiborne, Ben Bova, Arthur Penn, Jennie Elizabeth Eisenhower, Nicholas Biddle, Charles Burns, Mohini Bhardwaj, Frankie Beverly, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Paul Zimmerman, Eugene Byrd, Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, B B Gunns, Stuart Pankin, Cool C, Irvin Kershner, Anna Quindlen

Alumni

Francis Julius LeMoyne

Nearest City to

Brandywine Battlefield, John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge at Tinicum

Representative

Benjamin Donolow, William G. Stinson, Joseph Scanlon, Francis Lynch, Louis Johanson

Employees

Lynne Abraham, David L. Cohen

The Area Served By

▶ Philadelphia Eagles, Philadelphia Phillies, Philadelphia 76ers, XM Satellite Radio, City Year,  …

WCAU, Philadelphia Firebirds

Area Served

▶ WPVI-TV, KYW-TV, WTXF-TV, WPHL-TV, WPSG,  …

WPPX, WYBE, WUVP-TV, WFPA-CA

Land area

135.1 square miles; 326.144 square kilometres; 127.4 square miles; 349,881,748 square metres

Class

▶ settlement, city, town or city, populated place, consolidated city–county,  …

university city, geographical area

Water area

7.5 square miles; 7.6 square miles; 19.6 square kilometres; 19,544,394 square metres

Tributaries

Schuylkill River

Featured in

▶ Transformers, The Wrestler, Rocky, The Sixth Sense, National Treasure,  …

The Italian Job, Philadelphia, Dawn of the Dead, Signs, Twelve Monkeys, Unbreakable, Rocky III, Rocky V, Trading Places, Invincible, Rocky II, Witness, Mannequin, The Age of Innocence, In Her Shoes, Blow Out, Crumb, Stealing Home, Mannequin

GNIS ID

"1209052"

2000 Census Pop.

1,517,550

Housing Units in 2000

661,958

Wordnet Synset ID

"109136182"

Suburbs

West Chester; Woodbury Heights, New Jersey

Founded here

▶ Boyz II Men, Comcast Corporation, Steve & Barry's, Second Bank of the United States, Urban Outfitters,  …

Wyeth, Philadelphia Museum of Art, American Library Association, J.P. Morgan & Co., Baldwin Locomotive Works, Young & Rubicam, Budd Company, Mister Softee, Rohm and Haas, Zany Brainy, Centocor, Bank of North America, Hay Group, Wellington Management Company, Dick Clark Productions, Scott Paper Company, Academy of Natural Sciences, New Albertsons, Fox Chase Cancer Center, AIMCO, Duane Morris, Philadelphia Media Holdings LLC, Liberty Property Trust, Lubin Studios, Subaru of America, US Vision, The Cherry Street Tavern, McGillin's Olde Ale House, Neighborhood Bike Works, Dispensary

Freebase ID

"/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000000062e4e"

Related Websites

▶ http://www.philadelphiausa.travel, http://phillysnaps.com/cityphotos/index.htm, http://www.gophila.com, http://www.philly.com, http://www.philageohistory.org/rdic-images,  …

http://www.phillyhistory.org/PhotoArchive, http://www.phila.gov, http://www.phila.gov/

Buried

▶ George Meade, John Barry, Frank Furness, John Lafferty, Edward Buehler Delk,  …

Anthony Taylor, Alexander Crawford, John C. Hunterson, Samuel Gross, George C. Read, James Agnew, Joshua T. Owen, Alphonse Girandy, Sidney George Fisher

Things Running Through

Interstate 95, Broad Street, Walnut Street, New York-Chicago Toll Road system, Girard Avenue

Open Calais URI

▶ http://d.opencalais.com/er/geo/city/ralg-geo1/1c338a31-0ec8-af84-1028-79ca7eb89dc8, http://d.opencalais.com/er/geo/city/ralg-geo1/4014770a-f894-8ca3-d21f-3fe077349caa, http://d.opencalais.com/er/geo/city/ralg-geo1/c7992115-78e0-3325-016d-d08355bd3ef6, http://d.opencalais.com/er/geo/city/ralg-geo1/d50f52ac-2687-bbac-dc25-479b4df301ef, http://d.opencalais.com/er/geo/city/ralg-geo1/8a019bc4-c15c-82e8-2701-4ebe5ae27174,  …

http://d.opencalais.com/er/geo/city/ralg-geo1/06db416f-aa27-f883-8bbc-e038dbfbde9d, http://d.opencalais.com/er/geo/city/ralg-geo1/c1a67f4a-e91f-1610-2a5e-b661468a9880

Raised

▶ John Yoo, Carol Cleveland, Cindy Birdsong, W. E. B. Griffin, Leon Bass,  …

Eve

Visited by

▶ George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, James Madison, William Henry Harrison, Thomas Paine,  …

Tito Jackson, Terrell Owens, Benedict Arnold, George Armstrong Custer, Tony Parker, Mario Lemieux, William Penn, Donovan McNabb, Chris Chelios, Drew Rosenhaus, Charles Cornwallis, Dolley Madison, William Howe, Daniel Faulkner, Philip Schuyler, Flavia Colgan, William Cornwallis, David B. Birney, Alexander J. Dallas, William D. Bloxham, Lydia Rabinowitsch-Kempner, Richard Cross

GeoNames URL

http://sws.geonames.org/4560349/

US Census URI

http://www.rdfabout.com/rdf/usgov/geo/us/pa/counties/philadelphia_county/philadelphia

DBPedia URI

http://dbpedia.org/resource/Philadelphia

Parts

Southwest Philadelphia

Met Office ID

"276"

Aliases

"at philadelphia", "in philadelphia", "philadelphia"

Rare Terms

▶ "torresdale boys club field philadelphia"; "philadelphia pennsylvania usa"; "philadelphias"; "torresdale boys club field, philadelphia"; "the city of philadelphia";  …

"philadelphia, pennsylvania, usa"; "philadelphia, pa."; "philadelphia's"; "philadelphia wct"; "philadelphia msa"; "philadelphia 1958"

Films

Rocky

Freebase Primary MID

"/m/0dclg"