Philadelphia

Philadelphia () is the lairgest ceety in Pennsylvanie, saxt-maist-populous ceety in the Unitit States an the fifty-first maist populous ceety in the warld. Retrieved on September 20, 2010.

In 2008, the population o the ceety proper wis estimatit tae be mair nor 1.54 million,philly.com Retrieved on December 18, 2009. whiles the  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 ( (, ) "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) :
  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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Category:Ceeties in Pennsylvanie
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Category:Populatit places established in 1682
Category:Umwhile caipitals o the Unitit States
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Category:Port ceeties an touns o the Unitit States Atlantic coast
Category:Planned ceeties in the Unitit States
Category:1682 establishments in the Thirteen Colonies
Category:Consolidatit ceety-coonties in the Unitit States
Category:Coonty seats in Pennsylvanie