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The Delaware Valley, sometimes referred to as Greater Philadelphia, Philadelphia metropolitan area, or Philadelphia tri-state area, and locally and colloquially referred to as Philly-Jersey-Delaware, is a major metropolitan area in Northeast United States that centers on Philadelphia, the 6th-most populous city in the United States, and spans part of four states: Southeastern Pennsylvania ...
Delaware County is the traditional home of women's professional soccer in the Philadelphia area. The former Philadelphia Charge of the defunct Women's United Soccer Association played at Villanova Stadium , which is located on the campus of Villanova University .
Delaware Township was a township that was located in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, United States. The borough ceased to exist and was incorporated into the City of Philadelphia following the passage of the Act of Consolidation, 1854 .
Philadelphia (/ f ɪ l ə ˈ d ɛ l f i. ə / ⓘ), colloquially referred to as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania [11] and the sixth-most populous city in the United States, with a population of 1,603,797 in the 2020 census.
Chester is a city in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States. [5] It is located in the Philadelphia metropolitan area (also known as the Delaware Valley) on the western bank of the Delaware River between Philadelphia and Wilmington, Delaware.
The European forts and settlements in the Delaware River Valley, then known as New Sweden, c. 1650 A 1683 map of Philadelphia, which is believed to be the first city map created Philadelphia's seal in 1683 Penn's Treaty with the Indians, a 1772 portrait by Benjamin West now on display above the north door of the United States Capitol rotunda
The Delaware Division of the Pennsylvania Canal, more commonly called the Delaware Canal, runs for 60 miles (97 km) parallel to the right bank of the Delaware River from the entry locks near the mouth of the Lehigh River and terminal end of the Lehigh Canal at Easton south to Bristol.
It is the last crossing of the Delaware River between New Jersey and Pennsylvania; the next crossing, to the south, is the Delaware Memorial Bridge between New Jersey and Delaware. Walt Whitman Bridge – The most heavily traveled of the four bridges, the Walt Whitman Bridge connects South Philadelphia to Gloucester City, New Jersey.