Philadelphia

Philadelphia, routinely referred to as Philly, is the birthplace of American democracy. In Independence Hall and in taverns and other locations around the city, the nation's founders planned and launched the American Revolution, which gave birth to the nation.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Philadelphia International Airport and Old City.

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, ☏ +1-800-PHL-GATE…

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Philadelphia's is home to many historical sites, galleries, restaurants, and bars.

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West Philly is a mostly residential section…

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Center City West and North Philadelphia.

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Philadelphia's is the downtown area west of City Hall.

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is a large area north…

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Philadelphia's Northwest district is a huge area north of Lehigh Ave and west of Front St.

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South Philly is a district of Philadelphia.

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City Center East is the most dense section…

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is a more residential area…
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Independence Hall and Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Museum
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is a historic civic building…

Museum
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The is an art museum…

Museum
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The is a museum…

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Camden and Fishtown.

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is a city in , , across the Delaware River from Philadelphia.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood in the River Wards section of Philadelphia, , United States.

Neighborhood
is a neighborhood in , , United States.

Philadelphia

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Latitude
39.9527° or 39° 57′ 10″ north
Longitude
-75.1635° or 75° 9′ 49″ west
UN/LOCODE
US PHL
Open location code
87F6XR3P+3H
Open­Street­Map ID
node 5518033962
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4560349
Wiki­data ID
Q1345

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Philadelphia” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Philadelphia”
  • Albanian: “Filadelfia”
  • Amharic: “ፊላዴልፊያ”
  • Arabic: “فيلادلفيا (بنسيلفانيا)”
  • Arabic: “فيلادلفيا، بنسيلفانيا”
  • Arabic: “فيلادلفيا”
  • Arabic: “فيلادليفا”
  • Arabic: “فيلاديلفيا، بينسلفانيا”
  • Arabic: “فيلاديلفيا”
  • Aragonese: “Filadelfia”
  • Aragonese: “Philadelphia”
  • Armenian: “Ֆիլադելֆիա”
  • Arpitan: “Philadelphia”
  • Asturian: “Filadelfia”
  • Aymara: “Philadelphia”
  • Azerbaijani: “Filadelfiya”
  • Balinese: “Philadelphia”
  • Bambara: “Philadelphie”
  • Bashkir: “Филадельфия”
  • Basque: “Filadelfia”
  • Bavarian: “Philadelphia”
  • Belarusian: “Філадэлфія”
  • Belarusian: “Філадэльфія”
  • Bengali: “ফিলাডেলফিয়া”
  • Bishnupriya: “ফিলাডেলফিয়া”
  • Bosnian: “Philadelphia”
  • Breton: “Philadelphia”
  • Bulgarian: “Филаделфия”
  • Burmese: “ဖီလာဒဲလ်ဖီးယားမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Filadèlfia”
  • Cebuano: “Philadelphia”
  • Central Bikol: “Philadelphia”
  • Central Kurdish: “فیلادێلفیا”
  • Chamorro: “Philadelphia”
  • Chavacano: “Philadelphia”
  • Chechen: “Филадельфи”
  • Chinese: “菲利”
  • Chinese: “費城”
  • Chinese: “費拉德爾菲亞”
  • Chinese: “费城”
  • Chuvash: “Филадельфи”
  • Cornish: “Philadelphia”
  • Corsican: “Filadelfia”
  • Corsican: “Philadelphia”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Filadelfiya”
  • Croatian: “Philadelphia”
  • Czech: “Filadelfie”
  • Czech: “Philadelphia”
  • Danish: “Philadelphia”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Filadelfiya”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Philadelphia”
  • Dutch: “Philadelphia”
  • Eastern Mari: “Филадельфий”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “فيلادلفيا”
  • Emilian: “Filadèlfia”
  • Esperanto: “Filadelfio”
  • Esperanto: “Lulilo de Libero”
  • Esperanto: “Urbo de Frata Amo”
  • Estonian: “Philadelphia”
  • Ewe: “Philadelphia”
  • Faroese: “Philadelphia”
  • Fijian: “Philadelphia”
  • Finnish: “Philadelphia”
  • French: “Philadelphie”
  • Galician: “Filadelfia”
  • Gan Chinese: “費城”
  • Georgian: “ფილადელფია”
  • German: “Philadelphia”
  • Gilaki: “فيلادلفيا (پنسيلوانيا)”
  • Gilaki: “فيلادلفيا”
  • Gothic: “𐍆𐌹𐌻𐌰𐌳𐌰𐌹𐌻𐍆𐌾𐌰”
  • Greek: “Πόλη της Αδελφικής Αγάπης”
  • Greek: “Φιλαδέλφεια, Πενσυλβάνια”
  • Greek: “Φιλαδέλφεια”
  • Greek: “Φίλλυ”
  • Guarani: “Filadelfia”
  • Gujarati: “ફિલાડેલ્ફિયા, પેન્સિલવેનિયા”
  • Gujarati: “ફિલાડેલ્ફિયા”
  • Haitian: “Philadelphia, Pennsilvani”
  • Haitian: “Philadelphia”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Fi-sàng”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Philadelphia”
  • Hausa: “Philadelphia”
  • Hawaiian: “Philadelphia”
  • Hebrew: “פילדלפיה, פנסילבניה”
  • Hebrew: “פילדלפיה”
  • Hindi: “फ़िलडेल्फ़िया”
  • Hindi: “फिलाडेल्फिया”
  • Hindi: “फ़िलाडेल्फ़िया”
  • Hungarian: “Philadelphia”
  • Icelandic: “Philadelphia”
  • Ido: “Philadelphia”
  • Iloko: “Philadelphia”
  • Inari Sami: “Philadelphia”
  • Indonesian: “Philadelphia, Pennsylvania”
  • Indonesian: “Philadelphia”
  • Interlingua: “Philadelphia”
  • Interlingue: “Philadelphia”
  • Irish: “Filideilfia, Pennsylvania”
  • Irish: “Filideilfia”
  • Irish: “Philadelphia”
  • Italian: “Filadelfia”
  • Japanese: “クレードル・オヴ・リバティー”
  • Japanese: “クレードル・オブ・リバティー”
  • Japanese: “クレイドル・オヴ・リバティー”
  • Japanese: “クレイドル・オブ・リバティー”
  • Japanese: “シティ・オヴ・ブラザリー・ラヴ”
  • Japanese: “シティ・オブ・ブラザリー・ラブ”
  • Japanese: “フィラデルフィア”
  • Japanese: “フィリー”
  • Japanese: “兄弟愛の市”
  • Japanese: “自由のゆりかご”
  • Japanese: “自由の揺りかご”
  • Japanese: “自由の揺り籠”
  • Javanese: “Philadelphia”
  • Kabyle: “Philadelphia”
  • Kannada: “ಫಿಲಡೆಲ್ಫಿಯ”
  • Kannada: “ಫಿಲಡೆಲ್ಫಿಯಾ”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Филадельфия”
  • Kashmiri: “فِلاڈیٚلفِیا”
  • Kazakh: “Филадельфия қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Филадельфия”
  • Khmer: “ភីឡាដេលផ្យា”
  • Kikuyu: “Philadelphia”
  • Kirghiz: “Филадельфия”
  • Kölsch: “Philadelphia”
  • Korean: “필라델피아”
  • Kurdish: “Fîladelfiya”
  • Kurdish: “Philadelphia”
  • Ladin: “Philadelphia”
  • Ladino: “Filadelfia”
  • Latin: “Philadelphia”
  • Latvian: “Filadelfija”
  • Ligurian: “Philadelphia”
  • Limburgan: “Philadelphia”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Philadelphia, Pennsylvania”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Philadelphia”
  • Lithuanian: “Filadelfija”
  • Lombard: “Philadelphia”
  • Low German: “Philadelphia”
  • Luxembourgish: “Philadelphia”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Philadelphia”
  • Macedonian: “Филаделфија”
  • Malagasy: “Philadelphia”
  • Malay: “Philadelphia”
  • Malayalam: “ഫിലഡെൽഫിയ”
  • Maltese: “Philadelphia”
  • Maori: “Philadelphia”
  • Maori: “Whiratarawhia”
  • Marathi: “फिलाडेल्फिया”
  • Mazanderani: “فیلادلفیا”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Philadelphia”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Philadelphia”
  • Mingrelian: “ფილადელფია”
  • Mirandese: “Filadélfia”
  • Moksha: “Филадэлфия”
  • Mongolian: “Филадельфи”
  • Mongolian: “Филадельфия”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “فيلادلفيا”
  • Navajo: “Beeʼeldíílsání”
  • Nepali: “फिलाडेल्फिया”
  • Northern Frisian: “Philadelphia”
  • Northern Luri: “فیلادلفیا”
  • Northern Sami: “Philadelphia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Philadelphia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Philadelphia”
  • Norwegian: “Philadelphia”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Filadèlfia”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Broþlufburh”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Broþorlufeburh”
  • Ossetian: “Филадельфи”
  • Pampanga: “Philadelphia”
  • Panjabi: “ਫਿਲਾਡੇਲਫਿਆ”
  • Panjabi: “ਫ਼ਿਲਾਡੈਲਫ਼ੀਆ”
  • Papiamento: “Filadelfia”
  • Papiamento: “Philadelphia”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Filadelfi, Pennsilfaani”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Filadelfi”
  • Persian: “فیلادلفیا، پنسیلوانیا”
  • Persian: “فیلادلفیا”
  • Piemontese: “Filadelfia”
  • Polish: “Filadelfia”
  • Portuguese: “Filadélfia”
  • Pushto: “پيلادېلپيا”
  • Quechua: “Philadelphia”
  • Romanian: “City of Brotherly Love”
  • Romanian: “Cradle of Liberty”
  • Romanian: “Philadelphia”
  • Russian: “Филадельфия”
  • Rusyn: “Филаделфия”
  • Santali: “ᱯᱷᱤᱞᱟᱰᱮᱞᱯᱷᱤᱭᱟ”
  • Sardinian: “Filadelfia”
  • Sassarese Sardinian: “Filadelfia”
  • Sassarese Sardinian: “Filadèlfia”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Philadelphia”
  • Scots: “Philadelphia”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Philadelphia, Pennsylvania”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Philadelphia”
  • Serbian: “Филаделфија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Philadelphia, Pennsylvania”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Philadelphia”
  • Silesian: “Filadelfijo”
  • Sindhi: “فلاڊيلفيا”
  • Sinhala: “ෆිලඩෙල්ෆියා”
  • Sinhala: “ෆිලඩෙල්ෆියාව”
  • Skolt Sami: “Philadelphia”
  • Slovak: “Philadelphia”
  • Slovenian: “Filadelfija*”
  • Slovenian: “Filadelfija”
  • Slovenian: “Mesto bratske ljubezni”
  • Slovenian: “Philadelphia, Pensilvanija”
  • Slovenian: “Philadelphia”
  • Slovenian: “Zibelka svobode”
  • Somali: “Philadelphia”
  • South Azerbaijani: “فیلادلفیا”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad de Filadelfia”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad del Amor Fraternal”
  • Spanish: “Cuna de la Libertad”
  • Spanish: “Filadelfia (Pensilvania)”
  • Spanish: “Filadelfia”
  • Sundanese: “Philadelphia”
  • Swahili: “Philadelphia”
  • Swedish: “Filadelfia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania”
  • Swedish: “Filadelfia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvanien”
  • Swedish: “Philadelphia, Pennsylvanien”
  • Swedish: “Philadelphia”
  • Swiss German: “Philadelphia”
  • Tagalog: “Philadelphia”
  • Tajik: “филаделфия”
  • Tajik: “Филаделфия”
  • Tajik: “Филоделфиё”
  • Talysh: “Filadelfijə”
  • Talysh: “Filadelfiya”
  • Tamil: “ஃபிலடெல்ஃபியா”
  • Tamil: “பிலடெல்பியா”
  • Tatar: “Filadelfiä”
  • Tatar: “Филаделфия”
  • Tatar: “Филадельфия”
  • Telugu: “ఫిలడెల్ఫియా,పెన్సిల్వేనియా”
  • Telugu: “ఫిలడెల్ఫియా”
  • Thai: “ฟิลลี”
  • Thai: “ฟิลาเดลเฟีย”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Philadelphia”
  • Turkish: “Philadelphia, Pensilvanya”
  • Turkish: “Philadelphia”
  • Turkmen: “Filadelfiýa”
  • Twi: “Philadelphia”
  • Uighur: “Filadélfiye”
  • Ukrainian: “Філадельфія”
  • Urdu: “فلاڈلفیا”
  • Urdu: “فلاڈیلفیا، پنسلوانیا”
  • Uzbek: “Filadelfiya”
  • Venetian: “Filadèlfia”
  • Veps: “Filadel’fii”
  • Veps: “Filadelfii”
  • Vietnamese: “Philadelphia”
  • Vietnamese: “Philađenphia”
  • Vlaams: “Philadelphia”
  • Vlax Romani: “Philadelphia”
  • Volapük: “Philadelphia”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Philadelphia”
  • Welsh: “Philadelphia”
  • Western Armenian: “Ֆիլատելֆիա”
  • Western Frisian: “Philadelphia”
  • Western Mari: “Филадельфи”
  • Western Panjabi: “فلاڈیلفیا”
  • Wolof: “Filaadelfiya”
  • Wu Chinese: “费城”
  • Yakut: “Филаделфиа”
  • Yiddish: “פילאדעלפיע”
  • Yoruba: “Philadelphia”
  • Yue Chinese: “費城”
  • “ma tomo Pilatepija”
  • “Philly”

Philadelphia Region: Highlights

Notable places include Allentown and Reading.

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