The population of the City of Philadelphia in 1790 was 28,552. Today over 1,500,000 people reside in the City of Philadelphia and almost 5,000,000 in the Philadelphia-Southern New Jersey major metropolitan area, making Philadelphia the fourth largest major metropolitan area in the United States behind only Los Angeles-Long Beach, New York, and Chicago.
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