# Philadelphia

| Philadelphia |
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| Consolidatit ceety-coonty |
| City of Philadelphia |
| Frae top left, the Philadelphia skyline, a statue of Benjamin Franklin, the Liberty Bell, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia City Hall, an Independence Hall |
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| Eik-name(s): "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" |
| Motto(s): "Philadelphia maneto" ("Let brotherly love endure") |
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| PhiladelphiaLocation in the Unitit States |
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| Kintra | Unitit States |
| Commonwealth | Pennsylvanie |
| Historic Colony | Province o Pennsylvanie |
| Coonty | Philadelphia |
| Foondit | October 27, 1682 |
| Incorporatit | October 25, 1701 |
| Govrenment |
|  • Teep | Mayor–Cooncil |
|  • Bodi | Philadelphia City Council |
|  • Mayor | Michael Nutter (D) |
| Area |
|  • Consolidatit ceety-coonty | 367 km2 (141.6 sq mi) |
|  • Laund | 347.3 km2 (134.1 sq mi) |
|  • Water | 19.4 km2 (7.5 sq mi) |
|  • Urban | 4660.5 km2 (1799.5 sq mi) |
|  • Metro | 11988.6 km2 (4629 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 12 m (39 ft) |
| Population (2013) |
|  • Consolidatit ceety-coonty | 1,553,165 |
|  • Rank | US: 5t |
|  • Density | 4,393.8/km2 (11,379.6/sq mi) |
|  • Urban | 5,441,567 (US: 5t) |
|  • Metro | 6,034,678 (US: 6t) |
|  • CSA | 7146706 (US: 8th) |
|  • Demonym | Philadelphian |
| Time zone | UTC-5 (EST) |
|  • Summer (DST) | UTC-4 (EDT) |
| ZIP code | 191xx |
| Area code(s) | 215, 267 |
| Website | www.phila.gov |

**Philadelphia** (pronounced /ˌfɪləˈdɛlfiə/*(deprecatit template)*) is the lairgest ceety in Pennsylvanie, saxt-maist-populous ceety in the Unitit States an the fifty-first maist populous ceety in the warld.

In 2008, the population o the ceety proper wis estimatit tae be mair nor 1.54 million, whiles the Greater Philadelphia metropolitan aurie's population o 5.8 million makkit it the kintra's fift lairgest. The ceety, that lies aboot 80 mile (130 km) soothwast o New York Ceety, is the naition's fowert-lairgest urban aurie bi population an its fowert-lairgest consumer media mercat, as ranked bi the Nielsen Media Research.

It is the coonty seat o Philadelphia Coonty, wi whilk it is coterminous. Popular eiknames for Philadelphia include *Philly* an *The Ceety o Britherly Luve*, frae the literal meanin o the ceety's name in Greek (Greek: Φιλαδέλφεια ([pʰilaˈdelpʰeːa], Modren Greek: [filaˈðelfia]) "britherly luve", compundit frae *philos* (φίλος) "luve", an *adelphos* (ἀδελφός) "brither").

A commercial, eddicational, an cultural centre, Philadelphia wis ance the seicont-lairgest ceety in the Breetish Empire (after Lunnon), an the social an geographical centre o the oreeginal 13 American colonies.
It wis a centrepiece o early American history, host tae mony o the ideas an actions that gied birth tae the American Revolution an independence. It wis the maist populous ceety o the young Unitit States, although bi the first census in 1790, New York Ceety haed owertaen it. Philadelphia served as ane o the naition's mony caipitals durin the Revolutionary War an efter. Efter the ratification o the U.S. Constitution, the ceety served as the temporary naitional caipital frae 1790 tae 1800 whiles Washington, D.C. wis unner construction.

Philadelphia is central tae African American history; its lairge black population predates the Great Migration.

## Sister ceeties

Philadelphia haes ten sister ceeties, as designatit bi the International Visitors Council of Philadelphia (IVC) Archived 2010-12-23 at the Wayback Machine:

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| * Florence, Italy (1964)
* Tel Aviv, Israel (1966)
* Toruń, Poland (1976)
* Tianjin, Fowkrepublic o Cheenae (1980)
* Incheon, Sooth Korea (1984)
 | * Douala, Cameroon (1986)
* Kobe, Japan (1986)
* Nizhny Novgorod, Roushie (1992)
* Abruzzo, Italy (1997)
* Aix-en-Provence, Fraunce (1999)
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