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Philadelphia, USA

Philadelphia is the largest city in Pennsylvania and the sixth-most-populous city in the United States.

In 2005, the population of the city proper was estimated to be over 1.4 million, while the Greater Philadelphia metropolitan area's population of 5.8 million made it the country's fifth-largest. The city is the nation's fourth-largest urban area by population and its fourth-largest consumer media market as ranked by the Nielsen Media Research. It is the county seat of Philadelphia County (with which it is coterminous). Popular nicknames for Philadelphia include Philly and The City of Brotherly Love (from Greek: Φιλαδέλφεια, [pʰi.la.ˈdel.pʰeː.a], Modern Greek: [fi.la'ðɛl.fi.a], "brotherly love" from philos-φίλος, "love", and adelphos-αδερφός or αδελφός "brother").

A commercial, educational, and cultural center, the city was once the second-largest in the British Empire (after London), and the social and geographical center of the original 13 American colonies. Ben Franklin took a large role in Philadelphia's early rise to prominence. It was in this city that many of the ideas, and subsequent actions, gave birth to the American Revolution and American Independence, making Philadelphia a centerpiece of early American history. It was the most populous city of the young United States, and served as the nation's first capital during much of the Revolutionary War and after. Following the ratification of the U.S. Constitution, it was the temporary national capital from 1790 to 1800 while Washington, DC was under construction.

费城（Philadelphia），也常被简称为“菲利”（Philly），有时也有人称“兄弟之爱城”（City of Brotherly Love），为美国第五大城，并且是宾夕法尼亚州人口最多，面积最大的城市。从1854年起，费城市和费城县为两个并行的地方政府，而从1952年起，市与县共有一个政府组织，但费城县仍属宾州州政府下的一个独立的县。至2004年7月1日止，估计费城人口有1,470,151人。费城城中心的人口在全美国排名第三，仅次于纽约与芝加哥。

以现在美国官方的定义而言，费城都会区的面积大小排名全美第四，共约六百二十万人居住其中，但若以其他定义来衡量，费城排名第六，次于旧金山湾区与华盛顿-巴尔的摩都会区。费城是德拉瓦河谷都会区的中心城市。

费城是美国最老、最具历史意义的城市，它在美国史上有非常重要的地位。在十八世纪时，费城是美国第二大城与人口最多的城市，在当时，它的政治与社会重要性超过纽约与波士顿，本杰明·富兰克林对费城的兴起贡献良多。

References sources : wikipedia