South Philadelphia
South Philly is a district of Philadelphia. Famous for its Italian heritage and for being featured in the 1970s movie Rocky, South Philly is home to FDR Park and most of Philadelphia's major professional sports teams.
Places of Interest
Highlights: Methodist Hospital and Francis Scott Key School.
Francis Scott Key School
Historic building
Photo: Smallbones, Public domain.Delaplaine McDaniel School
Historic building
Photo: Smallbones, Public domain.Places in the Area
Nearby places include Wharton and Whitman.
Whitman
Neighborhood
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
South Philadelphia
- Type: Suburb with 169,000 residents
- Description: the section of Philadelphia bounded by South Street to the north, the Delaware River to the east and south, and the Schuylkill River to the west
- Categories: neighborhood, Little Italy, and locality
- Location: Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Region, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
39.92555° or 39° 55′ 32″ north
Longitude
-75.16946° or 75° 10′ 10″ west
Population
169,000
Elevation
30 feet (9 metres)
Open location code
87F6WRGJ+66
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Vietnamese—“South Philadelphia” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “South Philadelphia”
- Chinese: “南費城”
- Dutch: “South Philadelphia”
- French: “Philadelphie sud”
- Hebrew: “פילדלפיה/דרום העיר”
- Italian: “Filadelfia sud”
- Italian: “South Philadelphia”
- Japanese: “サウス・フィラデルフィア”
- South Azerbaijani: “سوت فیلئیدلفیا”
- Ukrainian: “Південна Філадельфія”
- Urdu: “ساؤتھ فلاڈیلفیا”
- Vietnamese: “Nam Philadelphia”
Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Hawthorne and Passyunk Square.
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