Delaware Valley metropolitan area
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City of Philadelphia - Consolidated city-county - |
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Land area: | 350 km² |
Residents: | 1,526,006 (2010) |
Population density: | 4,361 per km² (2010) |
Philadelphia – Camden – Wilmington - Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) - |
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Land area: | 11,991 km² |
Residents: | 5,965,343 (2010) |
Population density: | 497 per km² (2010) |
Counties in Pennsylvania : |
Philadelphia, Montgomery , Bucks , Delaware , Chester |
Counties in New Jersey : |
Camden , Burlington , Gloucester , Salem |
Delaware counties : |
New Castle |
Counties in Maryland : |
Cecil |
Philadelphia – Camden – Wilmington - Combined Statistical Area (CSA) - |
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Land area: | 15,482 km² |
Residents: | 6,533,683 (2010) |
Population density: | 422 per km² (2010) |
Counties in Pennsylvania : |
Philadelphia, Montgomery, Bucks, Delaware, Chester, Berks |
Counties in New Jersey : |
Camden, Burlington, Gloucester, Salem, Cumberland |
Delaware counties : |
New Castle |
Counties in Maryland : |
Cecil |
The Philadelphia – Camden – Wilmington (also Delaware Valley ) region is the metropolitan region around the American city of Philadelphia on both sides of the mouth of the Delaware River . The region stretches from the southeast of the state of Pennsylvania over the south of New Jersey and northeastern Maryland to the north of Delaware . With 6.2 million inhabitants, it is the second largest metropolitan region on the east coast and the sixth largest in the entire country.
Definition and neighboring regions
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) defines the city of Philadelphia and ten of the surrounding counties in four states as the actual metropolitan area or Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) .
As an extension of this actual metropolitan area, two additional counties in New Jersey ( Cumberland County ) and Pennsylvania ( Berks County ) are added for the Combined Statistical Area (CSA) . The two counties are independent small metropolitan regions.
The Atlantic , which does not belong to the Delaware Valley region, and Cape May County are nevertheless very strongly integrated into the urban infrastructure. On the one hand, numerous commuters live in these two counties in the urban agglomeration, on the other hand, the regions on the nearby Atlantic coast are very much used as local recreation areas.
Already the New York metropolitan area is part of Mercer County with New Jersey's capital Trenton is a transition area between two immediately adjacent metropolitan areas. In addition to numerous commuters to New York, there are also many whose jobs are in the Delaware Valley region.
In the southeast, the region merges into the metropolitan area around the city of Baltimore in Maryland.
prehistory
The region was settled by Susquehannock and Lenni Lenape before the arrival of the first whites . Beginning in 1638, the area became the core of the newly formed New Sweden , which in 1655 fell to Nieuw Nederland . England conquered the region in 1664.
The name Delaware is derived from Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr , the second governor of the Virginia colony .
structure
Counties
1 - Philadelphia, PA
3 - Bucks County, PA
10 - Cecil County, MD
11 - Salem County, NJ
12 - Berks County, PA
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1 - Consolidated city-county , that is, the city and county are administratively and legally merged into one. |
Municipalities and settlements
The largest places in the entire CSA:
Core city
Places with more than 50,000 inhabitants
Places with more than 20,000 inhabitants
Individual evidence
- ^ Houston Business Journal , accessed August 10, 2011.
- ↑ US Census Bureau ( Memento of the original from June 9, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 10, 2011
- ^ New Sweden. Retrieved August 10, 2011
- ↑ a b U.S. Census Bureau - 2000 Census.Retrieved August 10, 2011
- ↑ United States US Census Bureau - 2010 Census. Retrieved August 10, 2011