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It is the most crime-ridden and poverty-stricken of the major cities in the United States. See Philadelphia crime and poverty
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[[File:Col-pa.jpg|thumb|200px|Philadelphia in 1776]]
 
[[File:Col-pa.jpg|thumb|200px|Philadelphia in 1776]]
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'''Philadelphia''' is the largest [[city]] in [[Pennsylvania]], and the sixth most populous city in the United States.<ref>https://www.census.gov/popest/cities/tables/SUB-EST2007-01.csv</ref>
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'''Philadelphia''' is the largest [[city]] in [[Pennsylvania]], and the sixth most populous city in the United States.<ref>https://www.census.gov/popest/cities/tables/SUB-EST2007-01.csv</ref> It is the most crime-ridden and poverty-stricken of the major cities in the [[United States]].  ''See [[Philadelphia crime and poverty]]''.
    
The name "Philadelphia" comes from the [[Revelation 1-7 (Translated)|Book of Revelation]] in the [[New Testament]]:<ref>[http://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1212&context=etd Larry Brent Hershey, "Peace Through Conversation: William Penn, Israel Pemberton And The Shaping Of Quaker-Indian Relations, 1681-1757 (Theses and Dissertations of the University of Iowa), p. 14 (quoting the Book of Revelation, first three chapters)]</ref>
 
The name "Philadelphia" comes from the [[Revelation 1-7 (Translated)|Book of Revelation]] in the [[New Testament]]:<ref>[http://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1212&context=etd Larry Brent Hershey, "Peace Through Conversation: William Penn, Israel Pemberton And The Shaping Of Quaker-Indian Relations, 1681-1757 (Theses and Dissertations of the University of Iowa), p. 14 (quoting the Book of Revelation, first three chapters)]</ref>
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