Camden County is located in the U.S. state of New Jersey.
As of 2019, the population was estimated to be 506,471 and
in 2009 the estimate was 517,879.
Its county seat is Camden. It was formed on March 13,
1844, from portions of Gloucester County. The county was named
for
Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden, a British judge,
civil libertarian, and defender of the American cause.
This county is part of the Delaware
Valley area. The Delaware Valley is a term used to refer
to the metropolitan area centered on the city of Philadelphia in
the United States. The term is derived from the Delaware River,
which flows through the area. The federal Office of Management
and Budget officially defines the region as the
Philadelphia–Camden–Wilmington Metropolitan Statistical
Area.
The Delaware Valley is composed of
several counties in southeastern Pennsylvania and southern New
Jersey, one county in northern Delaware and one county in
northeastern Maryland. The area has a population of almost 6
million (as of the 2009 Census Bureau estimate). Philadelphia,
being the region's major commercial, cultural, and industrial
center, maintains a rather large sphere of influence that
affects the counties that immediately surround it. The majority
of the region's populace resides in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
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