Philadelphia
Philadelphia, routinely referred to as Philly, is known globally as the birthplace of American democracy. In Independence Hall and in taverns and other locations around the city, the nation's founders planned and ultimately launched the American Revolution, which gave birth to the nation.Photo: Dough4872, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Popular Destinations
Philadelphia International Airport
Philadelphia International Airport, ☏ +1-800-PHL-GATE is the main airport serving Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and the surrounding Delaware Valley.Old City
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Philadelphia's Old City is home to many historical sites, galleries, restaurants, and bars.
West Philadelphia
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West Philly is a mostly residential section of Philadelphia west of the Schuylkill River, which represented the western boundary of William Penn's original plan for the colonial city.
Destinations
North Philadelphia
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North Philadelphia is a large area north of Philadelphia's Center City that includes many neighborhoods such as Northern Liberties, Kensington, Fishtown, Fairmount, the Spring Gardens, Templetown, Nicetown, and Tioga.
Center City West
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Philadelphia's Center City West is the downtown area west of City Hall.
Northwest Philadelphia
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Philadelphia's Northwest district is a huge area north of Lehigh Ave and west of Front St.
South Philadelphia
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South Philly is a district of Philadelphia. Famous for its Italian heritage and for being featured in the 1970s movie Rocky, South Philly is home to FDR Park and most of Philadelphia's major professional sports teams.
Center City East
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City Center East is the most dense section of Philadelphia, home to City Hall, the Convention Center, Chinatown, Washington Square West, and Gayborhood.
Northeast Philadelphia
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Northeast Philadelphia is a more residential area of the city, although it is home to burgeoning Russian, Brazilian, and Indian communities and restaurants.
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Notable Places in the Area
Independence Hall
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Independence Hall is a historic civic building in Philadelphia, where both the United States Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution were debated and adopted by America's Founding Fathers.
Liberty Bell
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The Liberty Bell, previously called the State House Bell or Old State House Bell, is an iconic symbol of American independence located in Philadelphia.
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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The Philadelphia Museum of Art is an art museum originally chartered in 1876 for the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia.
Localities in the Area
Camden
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Camden is a city in Camden County, New Jersey, across the Delaware River from Philadelphia.
Fishtown
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Fishtown is a neighborhood in the River Wards section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
Wharton
Wharton is a neighborhood in South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.Philadelphia
- Type: City with 1,600,000 residents
- Description: largest city in Pennsylvania, United States
- Postal codes: 19019, 19092, 19093, 19099, 19101-19112, 19114-19116, 19118-19125, 19127-19155, 19160-19162, 19170-19173, 19175-19179, 19181-19185, 19187, 19188, 19191-19197, 19244 and 19255
- Neighbors: Abington Township, Bensalem, Camden, Cinnaminson, Haverford Township, Pennsauken, Tinicum Township and Upper Darby
- Categories: city of Pennsylvania, county seat, home rule municipality of Pennsylvania and locality
- Location: City of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Region, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
39.9527° or 39° 57' 10" northLongitude
-75.1635° or 75° 9' 49" westPopulation
1,600,000Elevation
39 feet (12 metres)Abbreviation
PhilaIATA airport code
PHLUnited Nations Location Code
US PHLOpen Location Code
87F6XR3P+3HOpenStreetMap ID
node 5518033962OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
4560349Wikidata ID
Q1345Philadelphia Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Philadelphia
- Afrikaans: Philadelphia
- Akan: Philadelphia
- Albanian: Filadelfia
- Amharic: ፊላዴልፊያ
- Arabic: Philadelphia
- Arabic: فيلادلفيا (بنسيلفانيا)
- Arabic: فيلادلفيا
- Arabic: فيلادلفيا، بنسيلفانيا
- Arabic: فيلادليفا
- Arabic: فيلاديلفيا
- Arabic: فيلاديلفيا، بينسلفانيا
- Aragonese: Filadelfia
- Aragonese: Philadelphia
- Armenian: Ֆիլադելֆիա
- Arpitan: Philadelphia
- Asturian: Filadelfia
- Asturian: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Asturian: Philadelphia
- Asturian: Philly
- Aymara: Philadelphia
- Azerbaijani: Filadelfiya
- Balinese: Philadelphia
- Bambara: Philadelphie
- Bashkir: Филадельфия
- Basque: Filadelfia
- Bavarian: Philadelphia
- Belarusian: Філадэлфія
- Belarusian: Філадэльфія
- Bengali: ফিলাডেলফিয়া
- Bishnupriya: ফিলাডেলফিয়া
- Bosnian: Philadelphia
- Breton: Philadelphia
- Bulgarian: Филаделфия
- Burmese: ဖီလာဒဲလ်ဖီးယားမြို့
- Catalan: Filadèlfia
- Cebuano: Philadelphia
- Central Bikol: Philadelphia
- Central Kurdish: فیلادێلفیا
- Chamorro: Philadelphia
- Chavacano: Philadelphia
- Chechen: Филадельфи
- Chinese: Philadelphia
- Chinese: 菲利
- Chinese: 費城
- Chinese: 費拉德爾菲亞
- Chinese: 费城/費城
- Chinese: 费城
- Chuvash: Филадельфи
- Cornish: Philadelphia
- Corsican: Filadelfia
- Corsican: Philadelphia
- Croatian: Philadelphia
- Czech: Filadelfie
- Czech: Philadelphia
- Danish: Philadelphia
- Dimli (individual language): Philadelphia
- Dutch: Philadelphia
- Eastern Mari: Филадельфий
- Egyptian Arabic: فيلادلفيا
- English: City of Brotherly Love
- English: City of Philadelphia
- English: Cradle of Liberty
- English: Philadelphia, PA
- English: Philadelphia, Pa.
- English: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- English: Philly
- Esperanto: Filadelfio
- Esperanto: Lulilo de Libero
- Esperanto: Urbo de Frata Amo
- Estonian: Philadelphia
- Faroese: Philadelphia
- Fijian: Philadelphia
- Finnish: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Finnish: Philadelphia
- French: Philadelphie
- Galician: Filadelfia
- Galician: Philadelphia
- Gan Chinese: 費城
- Georgian: ფილადელფია
- German: Philadelphia
- Gothic: 𐍆𐌹𐌻𐌰𐌳𐌰𐌹𐌻𐍆𐌾𐌰
- Greek: Πόλη της Αδελφικής Αγάπης
- Greek: Φίλλυ
- Greek: Φιλαδέλφεια, Πενσυλβάνια
- Greek: Φιλαδέλφεια
- Guarani: Filadelfia (Pensilvania)
- Guarani: Filadelfia
- Gujarati: ફિલાડેલ્ફિયા, પેન્સિલવેનિયા
- Gujarati: ફિલાડેલ્ફિયા
- Haitian: Philadelphia, Pennsilvani
- Hakka Chinese: Fi-sàng
- Hakka Chinese: Philadelphia
- Hausa: Philadelphia
- Hebrew: פילדלפיה, פנסילבניה
- Hebrew: פילדלפיה
- Hindi: फिलाडेल्फिया
- Hungarian: Philadelphia
- Icelandic: Philadelphia
- Ido: Philadelphia
- Iloko: Philadelphia
- Inari Sami: Philadelphia
- Indonesian: Philadelphia
- Interlingua: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Interlingua: Philadelphia
- Interlingue: Philadelphia
- Irish: Filideilfia, Pennsylvania
- Irish: Philadelphia
- Italian: Filadelfia
- Japanese: クレイドル・オブ・リバティー
- Japanese: クレイドル・オヴ・リバティー
- Japanese: クレードル・オブ・リバティー
- Japanese: クレードル・オヴ・リバティー
- Japanese: シティ・オブ・ブラザリー・ラブ
- Japanese: シティ・オヴ・ブラザリー・ラヴ
- Japanese: フィラデルフィア
- Japanese: フィリー
- Japanese: 兄弟愛の市
- Japanese: 自由のゆりかご
- Japanese: 自由の揺りかご
- Japanese: 自由の揺り籠
- Javanese: Philadelphia
- Kabyle: Philadelphia
- Kannada: ಫಿಲಡೆಲ್ಫಿಯ
- Kannada: ಫಿಲಡೆಲ್ಫಿಯಾ
- Kazakh: Филадельфия
- Kazakh: Филадельфия қаласы
- Khmer: ភីឡាដេលផ្យា
- Kikuyu: Philadelphia
- Kirghiz: Филадельфия
- Korean: 필라델피아
- Kurdish: Philadelphia
- Ladin: Philadelphia
- Ladino: Filadelfia
- Lao: Philadelphia
- Latin: Philadelphia
- Latvian: Filadelfija
- Ligurian: Philadelphia
- Limburgan: Philadelphia (Pennsylvania)
- Lingua Franca Nova: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Lithuanian: Filadelfija
- Lombard: Philadelphia
- Low German: Philadelphia
- Luxembourgish: Philadelphia
- Macedo-Romanian: Philadelphia
- Macedonian: Филаделфија
- Malagasy: Philadelphia
- Malay: Philadelphia
- Malayalam: ഫിലഡെൽഫിയ
- Maltese: Philadelphia
- Maori: Philadelphia
- Marathi: फिलाडेल्फिया
- Mazanderani: فیلادلفیا
- Min Dong Chinese: Philadelphia
- Min Nan Chinese: Philadelphia
- Mingrelian: ფილადელფია
- Mirandese: Filadélfia
- Moksha: Филадэлфия
- Mongolian: Филадельфи
- Mongolian: Филадельфия
- Navajo: Beeʼeldíílsání
- Nepali: फिलाडेल्फिया
- Northern Frisian: Philadelphia
- Northern Luri: فیلادلفیا
- Northern Sami: Philadelphia
- Norwegian: Philadelphia
- Norwegian Bokmål: Philadelphia
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Philadelphia
- Occitan (post 1500): Filadèlfia
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Broþorlufeburh
- Ossetian: Филадельфи
- Pampanga: Philadelphia
- Panjabi: ਫ਼ਿਲਾਡੈਲਫ਼ੀਆ
- Panjabi: ਫਿਲਾਡੇਲਫਿਆ
- Pennsylvania German: Filadelfi, Pennsilfaani
- Pennsylvania German: Filadelfi
- Persian: فیلادلفیا
- Persian: فیلادلفیا، پنسیلوانیا
- Piemontese: Filadelfia
- Polish: Filadelfia
- Portuguese: Filadélfia
- Portuguese: Philadelphia
- Portuguese: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Portuguese: Philly
- Quechua: Philadelphia
- Romanian: City of Brotherly Love
- Romanian: Cradle of Liberty
- Romanian: Philadelphia
- Romanian: Philly
- Russian: Филадельфия
- Rusyn: Филаделфия
- Santali: ᱯᱷᱤᱞᱟᱰᱮᱞᱯᱷᱤᱭᱟ
- Sardinian: Filadelfia
- Sassarese Sardinian: Filadelfia
- Sassarese Sardinian: Filadèlfia
- Sassarese Sardinian: Philadelphia
- Saterfriesisch: Philadelphia
- Scots: Philadelphia
- Scottish Gaelic: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Scottish Gaelic: Philadelphia
- Serbian: Филаделфија
- Serbo-Croatian: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Serbo-Croatian: Philadelphia
- Silesian: Filadelfijo
- Sinhala: ෆිලඩෙල්ෆියා
- Sinhala: ෆිලඩෙල්ෆියාව
- Skolt Sami: Philadelphia
- Slovak: Philadelphia
- Slovenian: Filadelfija, Pensilvanija
- Slovenian: Filadelfija
- Slovenian: Philadelphia
- Somali: Philadelphia
- South Azerbaijani: فیلادلفیا
- Spanish: Ciudad de Filadelfia
- Spanish: Ciudad del Amor Fraternal
- Spanish: Cuna de la Libertad
- Spanish: Filadelfia
- Spanish: Filadelfia (Pensilvania)
- Spanish: Philly
- Sundanese: Philadelphia
- Swahili: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Swedish: Filadelfia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Swedish: Filadelfia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvanien
- Swedish: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Swedish: Philadelphia, Pennsylvanien
- Swedish: Philadelphia
- Swiss German: Philadelphia
- Tagalog: Philadelphia
- Tajik: Филаделфия
- Tajik: Филоделфиё
- Tajik: филаделфия
- Talysh: Filadelfiya
- Tamil: ஃபிலடெல்ஃபியா
- Tamil: பிலடெல்பியா
- Tatar: Filadelfiä
- Tatar: Филаделфия
- Tatar: Филадельфия
- Telugu: ఫిలడెల్ఫియా,పెన్సిల్వేనియా
- Telugu: ఫిలడెల్ఫియా
- Thai: ฟิลาเดลเฟีย
- Tornedalen Finnish: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Tornedalen Finnish: Philadelphia
- Tosk Albanian: Philadelphia
- Turkish: Philadelphia, Pensilvanya
- Turkish: Philadelphia
- Turkmen: Filadelfiýa
- Twi: Philadelphia
- Uighur: Filadélfiye
- Ukrainian: Філадельфія
- Urdu: فلاڈلفیا
- Urdu: فلاڈیلفیا، پنسلوانیا
- Uzbek: Filadelfiya
- Veps: Filadel'fii
- Veps: Filadelfii
- Vietnamese: Philadelphia
- Vlaams: Philadelphia
- Vlax Romani: Philadelphia
- Volapük: Philadelphia
- Waray (Philippines): Philadelphia
- Welsh: Philadelphia
- Western Armenian: Ֆիլատելֆիա
- Western Frisian: Philadelphia
- Western Mari: Филадельфи
- Western Panjabi: فلاڈیلفیا
- Wolof: Filaadelfiya
- Wu Chinese: 费城
- Yakut: Филаделфиа
- Yiddish: פילאדעלפיע
- Yoruba: Philadelphia
- Yue Chinese: 費城
- Coaquannock
- Fîladelfiya
- Ga-na-ta-jen-go-na
- Quequenakee
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