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Philadelphia County
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county in Pennsylvania, United States
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Vinony's link graph records 1,108 inbound references to Philadelphia County, and connects out to race and ethnicity in the United States Census, Pennsylvania and Philadelphia.
The entry is geolocated on the map in PA.
Vinony files it under 1682 establishments in Pennsylvania, Consolidated city-counties and Geography of Philadelphia.
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Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Pennsylvania
- Founded
- March 10, 1682
- Named after
- City of Philadelphia
- Seat
- Philadelphia
- Largest city
- Philadelphia
- Total
- 143 sq mi (370 km )
- Land
- 134 sq mi (350 km )
- Water
- 8.6 sq mi (22 km ) 6.0%
- Estimate 2025
- 1,574,281
- Density
- 11,969/sq mi (4,621/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( Eastern )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 ( EDT )
- Congressional districts
- 2nd , 3rd , 5th
- Website
- www .phila .gov
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Philadelphia
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Pennsylvania
- Capital
- Philadelphia
- Population
- 1603797
- Area
- 143
- Shares border with
- Burlington County
- Headquarters
- Philadelphia
- Official website
- www.phila.gov
- Image
- Old City Hall - U. S. Supreme Court Building.jpg
- Households
- 613125
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- inception
- 1682-03-10
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
- water as percent of area
- 6
- native label
- Philadelphia County
- short name
- окр.Філадельфія
- topic's main category
- Category:Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
- per capita income
- 29644
- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C109982
- coextensive with
- Philadelphia
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Encyclopedic overview
Philadelphia County is the most populous of the 67 counties of Pennsylvania and the 24th-most populous county in the nation. As of the 2020 census, the county had a population of 1,603,797. It is coextensive with Philadelphia, the nation's sixth-largest city. The county is part of the Southeast Pennsylvania region of the state.
Philadelphia County is one of the three original counties, along with Chester and Bucks counties, founded by William Penn in November 1682. Since 1854, the county has been coextensive with the City of Philadelphia, which is also its county seat. Philadelphia County is the core county in the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington Combined Statistical Area (PA-NJ-DE-MD, located along the lower Delaware and Schuylkill Rivers, within the Northeast megalopolis).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Philadelphia County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.