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Module:Location map/data/USA Pennsylvania, Philadelphia County is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of the Pennsylvania county of Philadelphia. The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.
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. [ 1 ] It is coextensive with Philadelphia , the nation's sixth-largest city .
The following is a list of the 67 counties of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.The city of Philadelphia is coterminous with Philadelphia County, the municipalities having been consolidated in 1854, and all remaining county government functions having been merged into the city after a 1951 referendum.
Unlike other forms of municipalities in Pennsylvania, boroughs and towns are not classified according to population. Boroughs designated in the table below with a dagger (†) are home rule municipalities and are also found in the List of Pennsylvania municipalities and counties with home rule charters, optional charters, or optional plans. The ...
Map of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania highlighting Southwark District prior to the Act of Consolidation, 1854 Coordinates: 39°56′16″N 75°08′52″W / 39.93778°N 75.14778°W / 39.93778; -75
It was granted self-rule, and incorporated on March 6, 1820. For 34 years, Kensington was a self-governing district within the County of Philadelphia. In 1854, Kensington joined with the other towns, boroughs, and districts of Philadelphia County and consolidated with the City of Philadelphia.
Philadelphia, the largest city in Pennsylvania and sixth-largest city in the nation, with a population of 1,603,797, and the center of the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metropolitan area, the state's largest metropolitan statistical area and nation's seventh-largest with a population of 6,245,051 Pittsburgh, the second-largest city in Pennsylvania, and the center of Greater ...
Southwest Philadelphia (formerly Kingsessing Township) is a section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that can be described as extending from the western side of the Schuylkill River to the city line, with the northern border defined by the Philadelphia City Planning Commission as east from the city line along Baltimore Avenue moving south along ...