- Philadelphia is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the fifth-most populous in the United States, with an estimated population in 2014 of 1,560,297
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Philadelphia facts
- In the Northeastern United States, at the confluence of the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers, Philadelphia is the economic and cultural anchor of the Delaware Valley, a metropolitan area home to 7
- 2 million people and the eighth-largest combined statistical area in the United States
- In 1682, William Penn founded the city to serve as capital of the Pennsylvania Colony
- Philadelphia played an instrumental role in the American Revolution as a meeting place for the Founding Fathers of the United States, who signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and the Constitution in 1787
- Philadelphia was one of the nation's capitals in the Revolutionary War, and served as temporary U
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- capital while Washington, D
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- , was under construction
- In the 19th century, Philadelphia became a major industrial center and railroad hub that grew from an influx of European immigrants
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