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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, sits at the junction of the Schuykill and Delaware Rivers, and is also a major ocean port,1 although its nationalist monuments, the Liberty Bell, the Betsy Ross House and Independence Hall are better known.2 Other tourist sites include an underground museum at the site of Benjamin Franklin's House and an art museum. It has a metropolitan population of 6.423 million, with 1.523 million in the city proper.3 East of the city, along the New Jersey coast, is Atlantic City, famous for its casinos and other entertainments. The Philadephia International Airport is one the busiest in the United States of America.
The tallest building is Comcast Tower, 57 stories, which boasts the largest liquid tuned column damper.4 The tallest older building, from 1901, is the City Hall, topped with a 37 story statue of William Penn, and featuring other statues of indigenous and Swedish settlers. From around the same time is the Wanamaker building, which has one of the world's largest organs.5
The metropolitan area extends to Wilmington, Delaware, a tourist destination noted for, among other things, its Hagley Museum that includes the original DuPont gunpowder works.
Year | Population | Political entity |
1800 CE | 68,0006 | United States of America |
1900 CE | 1,418,0006 | United States of America |
2000 CE | 6,188,0003 | United States of America |
Philadephia waterfront and Delaware River