Philadelphia

Philadelphia (Template:PronEng) is the lairgest ceety in Pennsylvania, saxt-maist-populous ceety in the Unitit States an the fifty-first maist populous ceety in the warld.^[1]

In 2008, the population o the ceety proper wis estimatit tae be mair than 1.54 million,^[2] while the Greater Philadelphia metropolitan aurie's population o 5.8 million made it the kintra's fift lairgest. The ceety, which lies aboot 80 miles (130 km) soothwast o New York Ceety,^[3] is the naition's fowert-lairgest urban aurie bi population an its fowert-lairgest consumer media mercat, as ranked bi the Nielsen Media Research.

It is the coonty seat o Philadelphia Coonty, wi which it is coterminous. Popular nicknames for Philadelphia include Philly an The Ceety o Britherly Love, frae the literal meanin o the ceety's name in Greek (Greek: Φιλαδέλφεια (Template:IPA-el, Template:IPA-el) "britherly love", compundit frae philos (φίλος) "love", an adelphos (ἀδελφός) "brother").

A commercial, educational, an cultural center, Philadelphia wis ance the seicont-lairgest ceety in the Breetish Empire^[4] (after Lunnon), an the social an geographical center o the oreeginal 13 American colonies. It wis a centerpiece o early American history, host tae mony o the ideas an actions that gave birth tae the American Revolution an independence. It wis the maist populous ceety o the young Unitit States, although bi the first census in 1790, New York Ceety haed owertaken it. Philadelphia served as ane o the naition's mony caipitals durin the Revolutionary War an efter. Efter the ratification o the U.S. Constitution, the ceety served as the temporary naitional caipital frae 1790 tae 1800 while Washington, D.C., wis unner construction.

Philadelphia is central tae African American history; its lairge black population predates the Great Migration.