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Philadelphia is the fifth most populous city in the United States and the
largest in population and area in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The city is
coterminous with Philadelphia County.GR6 The population of the city is
1,517,550. It is the second largest city on the U.S. East Coast (after New
York), and a major commercial and cultural center for the East Coast.
The Philadelphia metropolitan area is the fourth largest in the U.S. by the
current official definition, with some 5.7 million people.
Philadelphia is one of the oldest and most historically significant cities in
the United States. During part of the 18th century, the city was the second
capital and most populous city of the United States. At that time, it eclipsed
Boston and New York City in political and social importance, with Benjamin
Franklin playing an extraordinary role in Philadelphia's rise.
Philadelphia is served by the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation
Authority (SEPTA), which operates buses, trains, rapid transit, trolleys, and
trackless trolleys throughout Philadelphia and the four Pennsylvania suburban
counties of Bucks, Chester, Delaware, and Montgomery. One of the 7 SEPTA
Regional Rail lines offers direct service to the Philadelphia International
Airport, while another line runs south to Wilmington and Newark, Delaware.
Philadelphia's 30th Street Station is a major railroad station on Amtrak's
Northeast Corridor, which offers access to Amtrak, SEPTA, and New Jersey Transit
lines.
PATCO provides rapid transit service to Camden, Collingswood, Haddonfield,
Cherry Hill, Ashland, and Lindenwold, New Jersey, from stations on Locust Street
between 16th and 15th, 13th and 12th, and 10th and 9th Streets, and on Market
Street at 8th Street.
The lowest point in the city lies 10 feet above sea level near Fort Mifflin in
Southwest Philadelphia at the convergence of the Delaware and Schuylkill Rivers.
The highest point is in Chestnut Hill, at 432 feet above sea level, near
Evergreen Place, just north and west of Evergreen Avenue.
Philadelphia is one of the largest college towns in the U.S., with over
120,000 college and university students enrolled within the city limits and
nearly 300,000 in the metropolitan area.
Colleges and Universities within the city:
* The Art Institute of Philadelphia
* Chestnut Hill College
* Community College of Philadelphia
* Curtis Institute of Music
* Drexel University
* Holy Family University
* La Salle University
* Moore College of Art
* Peirce College
* Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
* Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine
* Philadelphia University
* The Restaurant School
* Saint Joseph's University
* Temple University
* Thomas Jefferson University
* University of the Arts
* University of the Sciences in Philadelphia
* University of Pennsylvania
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