Philadelphia (disambiguation)
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Philadelphia is the largest city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.
Philadelphia may also refer to:
Places
- Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, a county coterminous with the city of the same name
- Center City, Philadelphia, the old City of Philadelphia before consolidation with the county.
- New Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a borough 70 miles northwest of Philadelphia
- Philadelphia, Germany, a former village, now part of Storkow, Oder-Spree, Brandenburg
- Amman, the capital of Jordan, called Philadelphia during the Hellenistic and Roman periods
- Philadelphia, Turkey or Alaşehir, home of one of the seven churches of Asia Minor in the Book of Revelation
- Philadelphia, Tyne and Wear, a village north of Houghton-le-Spring, City of Sunderland, United Kingdom
- Philadelphia, Illinois
- Philadelphia, Indiana
- Philadelphia, Mississippi
- Philadelphia (town), New York
- Philadelphia, Tennessee
- Philadelphia, Western Cape, a town in South Africa
Entertainment
- Philadelphia (film), a 1993 film directed by Jonathan Demme and starring Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington
- "Streets of Philadelphia", a song from the film by Bruce Springsteen
- "Philadelphia", a song from the film by Neil Young
Ships
- USS Philadelphia (1776), a gunboat sunk in the Battle of Valcour Island
- USS Philadelphia (1799), a 36-gun sailing frigate active in the Quasi-War
- USS Philadelphia (1861), a side-wheel steamer used in the American Civil War
- USS Philadelphia (C-4), a protected cruiser commissioned in 1890 and in service until 1926
- USS Philadelphia (CL-41), a light cruiser commissioned 1937, active in World War II
- USS Philadelphia (SSN-690), a Los Angeles-class attack submarine commissioned in 1977 and decommissioned in 2010
Other uses
- Philadelphia (magazine), a regional monthly magazine published in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Philadelphia Inquirer, a daily newspaper published in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- The Philadelphia, a one-act play by David Ives
- Philadelphia (cream cheese), a brand of cream cheese
- Jacob Philadelphia, an 18th-century magician and mystic
See also
- Philadelphia chromosome, a genetic abnormality that leads to chronic myelogenous leukemia
- Philadelphians, a 17th-century Protestant religious sect (sometimes called the "Philadelphian Society", or the "Philadelphia Society")
- Filadelfia (disambiguation)
- Philadelphus (disambiguation)
- All pages beginning with "Philadelphia"
- All pages with titles containing Philadelphia
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