Delaware Valley

The Philadelphia region - Camden - Wilmington (including the Delaware Valley ) is the metropolitan region to the U.S. city of Philadelphia on both sides of the mouth of the Delaware River. The region stretches from the southeast of the state of Pennsylvania on the southern New Jersey and northeastern Maryland to the north of Delaware. It is equipped with 6.2 million inhabitants, the second largest metropolitan area in the East Coast and the sixth largest in the country.

Definition and neighboring regions

The Office of Management and Budget ( OMB ) is defined as the actual metropolitan area or Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA ), the city of Philadelphia and the surrounding counties ten in four states.

As an extension of these actual metropolitan area for the Combined Statistical Area ( CSA), two other counties in New Jersey (Cumberland County) and Pennsylvania ( Berks County) to be added. It is in the two counties to independent small metropolitan areas.

That's not the Delaware Valley region scoring Atlantic and Cape May County are very much still involved in urban infrastructure. On one hand, live in these two counties many commuters in the urban conurbation, on the other hand, the Regions are widely used at the nearby Atlantic coast as recreational areas.

The New York Metropolitan Area already associated with Mercer County New Jersey's capital Trenton is a transition region between the two metropolitan regions immediately adjacent. There are in addition numerous commuters to New York, many whose jobs are in the Delaware Valley region.

In the southeast of the region goes to the city of Baltimore in Maryland in the metropolitan area.

Prehistory

The region was inhabited before the arrival of the first white men of Susquehannock and Lenape Lenni. 1638 began, the area was the core of the newly formed New Sweden, which fell in 1655 to New Netherland. In 1664 England conquered the region.

The name Delaware is derived from Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, the second governor of the Virginia Colony.

Structure

Counties

1 - Consolidated city- county, that is, City and County are administratively and legally merged into one unit.

Municipalities and settlements

The main towns throughout the CSA:

Core city

  • Philadelphia

Places with more than 50,000 inhabitants

  • Camden, NJ
  • Levittown; PA
  • Reading, PA
  • Vineland, NJ
  • Wilmington, DE

Places with more than 20,000 inhabitants

  • Bridgeton, NJ
  • Chester, PA
  • Drexel Hill, PA
  • Millville, NJ
  • Newark, DE
  • Norristown, PA
  • Pottstown, PA
  • Springfield, PA
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