Delaware Valley
The Delaware Valley is a region in eastern Pennsylvania and the surrounding states of Delaware, Maryland, and New Jersey that surrounds the Philadelphia metropolitan area.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Economic region with 7,070,000 residents
- Description: metropolitan area in the United States
- Also known as: “Delaware Valley Metropolitan Area”, “Greater Philadelphia”, “Lower Delaware Valley”, “Lower Delaware Valley Metropolitan Area”, “Philadelphia area”, “Philadelphia metro area”, “Philadelphia metropolitan area”, “Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington MSA”, “Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD Metro Area”, “Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD MSA”, “SEPA”, and “Southeastern Pennsylvania”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Crum Lynne station and Prospect Park station.
Crum Lynne station
Railway station
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Crum Lynne station is a station on the SEPTA Wilmington/Newark Line. Though the station sits along the Northeast Corridor, it is not served by any Amtrak intercity services.
Prospect Park station
Railway station
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Prospect Park station is a station along the SEPTA Wilmington/Newark Line and Amtrak Northeast Corridor. Amtrak does not stop here; only SEPTA serves this station.
Philadelphia Seaplane Base
Aerodrome
Philadelphia Seaplane Base is a township-owned, public-use seaplane base located one nautical mile south of the central business district of Essington, a community in Tinicum Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Swarthmore and Chester.
Swarthmore
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Swarthmore is a borough in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States. Swarthmore was originally named Westdale in honor of painter Benjamin West, who was one of the early residents of the town.
Chester
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Chester is a city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Chester is a suburb of the city of Philadelphia. The current population estimate is 30,409. The city is predominantly made up of African Americans, making up 79% of the population.
Tinicum Township
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Tinicum Township, also known as Tinicum Island or The Island, is a township in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 4,091 at the 2010 census, down from 4,353 at the 2000 census.
Delaware Valley
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Satellite Map
Discover Delaware Valley from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Asturian to Vietnamese—“Delaware Valley” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Valle de Delaware”
- Bengali: “ডেলাওয়্যার ভ্যালি”
- Catalan: “vall de Delaware”
- Chinese: “大费城地区”
- Chinese: “德拉瓦山谷”
- Chinese: “德拉瓦河谷”
- Chinese: “德拉瓦谷”
- Chinese: “特拉华河谷”
- Chinese: “特拉华谷”
- Chinese: “特拉華河谷”
- Chinese: “費城-肯頓-瓦恩蘭聯合統計區”
- Chinese: “費城都會區”
- Chinese: “费城-坎登-威尔明顿都会区”
- Chinese: “费城都会区”
- Dutch: “Delaware Valley”
- Esperanto: “Delavarvalo”
- French: “Delaware Valley”
- French: “Vallee du Delaware”
- French: “Vallée du delaware”
- French: “Vallée du Delaware”
- Galician: “Val do Delaware”
- German: “Metropolregion Delaware Valley”
- Indonesian: “Lembah Delaware”
- Italian: “Delaware Valley”
- Japanese: “デラウェア・バレー”
- Malayalam: “Delaware Valley”
- Malayalam: “ഡെൽവെയർ വാലി”
- Persian: “دره دلاور”
- Portuguese: “Região Metropolitana da Filadélfia”
- Portuguese: “Região Metropolitana de Filadélfia”
- Portuguese: “Vale do Delaware”
- Scots: “Delaware Valley”
- Slovenian: “Delaware Valley”
- Slovenian: “Delawarska dolina”
- South Azerbaijani: “دلاویر والئی”
- Spanish: “Area metropolitana de Filadelfia-Camden-Wilmington”
- Spanish: “Área metropolitana de Filadelfia-Camden-Wilmington”
- Spanish: “Gran Filadelfia”
- Spanish: “Valle de delaware”
- Spanish: “Valle de Delaware”
- Swedish: “Delaware Valley”
- Swedish: “Delawaredalen”
- Urdu: “ڈیلاویئر ویلی”
- Vietnamese: “Thung lũng Delaware”
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