Philadelphia

Philadelphia
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
Banner Seal
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")
Philadelphia Location in the Unitit States
Coordinates: 39°57′N 75°10′W
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:

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)