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Wilmington is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Delaware. The city was built on the site of Fort Christina, the first Swedish settlement in North America. It lies at the confluence of the Christina River and Brandywine Creek, near where the Christina flows into the Delaware River. It is the county seat of New Castle County and one of the major cities in the Delaware Valley metropolitan area. Wilmington was named by Proprietor Thomas Penn after his friend Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington, who was prime minister during the reign of George II of Great Britain. As of the 2020 census, the city's population was 70,898. Wilmington is part of the Delaware Valley metropolitan statistical area (which also includes Philadelphia, Reading, Camden, and other urban areas), which had a population of 6.245 million residents in 2020 and is the seventh-largest metropolitan region in the nation, and a combined statistical area population of 7.366 million. History Wilmington ...
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List Of Municipalities In Delaware
Delaware is a U.S. state, state located in the Southern United States. According to the 2016 United States Census estimate, Delaware is the List of U.S. states and territories by population, 6th least populous state with inhabitants but the List of U.S. states and territories by area, 2nd smallest by land area spanning of land. Delaware is divided into three counties and contains 57 incorporated places consisting of cities, towns, and villages. Of these, there are 10 cities, 3 villages, and 44 towns. As of 2020, the largest municipality by population in Delaware is Wilmington, Delaware, Wilmington with 70,898 residents, while the largest by area is Dover, Delaware, Dover which spans . The smallest municipality by both measurements is Hartly, Delaware, Hartly with 73 residents in an area of . List of municipalities File:Wilmington Delaware skyline.jpg, alt=Skyline of Wilmington, Skyline of Wilmington, Delaware, Wilmington, the largest city in Delaware File:Dover Delaware.jpg ...
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