Camden

Camden is a city in the United States and the county seat of Camden County, New Jersey. It is located across the Delaware River from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and forms part of the Philadelphia metropolitan area and of the South Jersey region. The 2020 census counted 71,791 residents. The city was incorporated on 13 February 1828 and has been the county seat since the county was formed in 1844. It takes its name from Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden, and is made up of more than twenty neighbourhoods. Its early industrial growth is credited to RCA Victor, Campbell Soup Company and the New York Shipbuilding Corporation, which later moved away as heavy industry declined. Revitalisation has brought the Battleship New Jersey Museum and Memorial, a waterfront pavilion and an aquarium, and the city hosts university and hospital campuses whose education and medical employers provide roughly forty-five percent of local jobs.