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West Philadelphia

West Philly is a mostly residential section of Philadelphia west of the Schuylkill River, which represented the western boundary of William Penn's original plan for the colonial city.
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  • Type: Suburb with 216,000 residents
  • Description: neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
  • Also known as: “West Philly”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Institute of the Pennsylvania Hospital and Saint Matthews AME Church (Philadelphia).

Hospital
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The Institute of Pennsylvania Hospital, also known as Kirkbride's Hospital or the Pennsylvania Hospital for Mental and Nervous Diseases, was a psychiatric hospital located at 48th and Haverford Streets in , , USA.

Church
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School
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is a secondary school located in the West Philadelphia section of , at the intersection of 49th Street and Chestnut Street.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Cobbs Creek and Haddington.

Neighborhood
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is a located in the West Philadelphia section of Philadelphia, , United States, named for the creek which forms part of Philadelphia's western border.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood in the West Philadelphia section of , , United States. Its borders are defined as Haverford Avenue/Girard Avenue to the north, 52nd Street to the east, Market Street to the south, and 67th Street to the westernmost edge of the neighborhood.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood in West Philadelphia, , United States. It is bounded by Lansdowne Avenue to the north, West Girard Avenue to the south, North 63rd Street to the west, and North 52nd Street to the east.

West Philadelphia

Latitude
39.96499° or 39° 57′ 54″ north
Longitude
-75.22521° or 75° 13′ 31″ west
Population
216,000
Elevation
125 feet (38 metres)
Open location code
87F6XQ7F+XW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 12745364746
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
12217924
Wiki­data ID
Q767950
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Ukrainian—“West Philadelphia” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “فيلادلفيا الغربية”
  • Armenian: “Արևմտյան Ֆիլադելֆիա”
  • Catalan: “West Philadelphia”
  • Chinese: “西費城”
  • Chinese: “西费城”
  • Dutch: “West Philadelphia”
  • French: “West Philadelphia”
  • Hebrew: “פילדלפיה/מערב העיר”
  • Italian: “Filadelfia ovest”
  • Italian: “Filadelfia Ovest”
  • Italian: “West Philadelphia”
  • Japanese: “ウェスト・フィラデルフィア”
  • Korean: “웨스트 필라델피아”
  • Korean: “웨스트필라델피아”
  • Russian: “Западная Филадельфия”
  • Slovenian: “West Philadelphia”
  • Slovenian: “Zahodna Filadelfija”
  • Slovenian: “Zahodna Philadelphia”
  • South Azerbaijani: “وزت فیلئیدلفیا”
  • Spanish: “Oeste de Filadelfia”
  • Turkish: “West Philadelphia”
  • Ukrainian: “Західна Філадельфія”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “West Philadelphia”. Photo: Kevin83002, Public domain.