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The city encompasses 142.71 square miles (369.62 km 2), of which 134.18 square miles (347.52 km 2) is land and 8.53 square miles (22.09 km 2), or 6%, is water. [79] Natural bodies of water include the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers, lakes in Franklin Delano Roosevelt Park , and Cobbs , Wissahickon , and Pennypack creeks.
This list ranks the top 150 U.S. cities (incorporated places) by 2024 land area. Total areas including water are also given, but when ranked by total area, a number of coastal cities appear disproportionately larger. San Francisco is an extreme example: water makes up nearly 80% of its total area of 232 square miles (601 km 2).
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Philadelphia County has a total area of 143 square miles (370 km 2), of which 134 square miles (350 km 2) is land and 8.6 square miles (22 km 2) (6.0%) is water. [5] It is the second-smallest county in Pennsylvania by area.
The Delaware Valley, sometimes referred to as Greater Philadelphia, Philadelphia metropolitan area, or Philadelphia tri-state area, and locally and colloquially referred to as Philly-Jersey-Delaware, is a major metropolitan area in Northeast United States that centers on Philadelphia, the 6th-most populous city in the United States, and spans part of four states: Southeastern Pennsylvania ...
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 ...
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.
Center City at night in May 2007 Logan Circle in 2011 Philadelphia City Hall at night in December 2012. Among Center City's neighborhoods and districts are Penn's Landing, Old City, Society Hill, South Street, Washington Square West, Market East, Chinatown, Logan Square, the Museum District (located along the Benjamin Franklin Parkway), Rittenhouse Square, Fitler Square, the Avenue of the Arts ...
Map of the United States with Pennsylvania highlighted in red. Pennsylvania is a state located in the Northeastern United States.As of the 2020 U.S. census, Pennsylvania is the fifth-most populous state with 13,002,700 inhabitants [1] and the 32nd-largest by land area spanning 44,742.70 square miles (115,883.1 km 2) of land. [2]