| LC control no. | n 81144644 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Geographic heading | Philadelphia County (Pa.) |
| Geographic subdivision usage | Pennsylvania--Philadelphia County |
| See also | Philadelphia (Pa.) |
| Beginning date | 1682-11 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Located | Pennsylvania |
| Found in | Statement of the finances ... Wikipedia, Apr. 25, 2007 (Philadelphia County; coterminous with the city of Philadelphia; est. Nov. 1682; two counties formed out of Philadelphia County: Berks County, which was formed in 1752 (from parts of Chester, Lancaster, and Philadelphia counties), and Montgomery County, est. in 1784; a reform charter, on Feb. 2, 1854, brought all the boroughs, townships, and districts of the County of Philadelphia within the City of Philadelphia; in 1951, a new initiative called the Home Rule Charter fully merged city and county offices; county offices were merged with the city government in 1952, effectively eliminating the county as a governmental structure in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; even though the county no longer has a government structure by law, it is still an entity within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and subject to the provisions and laws of the Commonwealth concerning counties) GeoNames, algorithmically matched, 2009 (adm2; 40°07ʹ31ʺN 075°00ʹ00ʺW) |
| Geographic area code | n-us-pa |
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