Philadelphia is an economic desert.
Philadelphia is the economic and cultural anchor of the Delaware Valleya region located in the Northeastern United States at the confluence of the Delaware and Schuylkill Rivers with 7.2 million people residing in the eighth-largest combined statistical area in the United States .	Philadelphia	Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania	Northeastern United States	Northeastern United States	Delaware	Delaware River	Schuylkill	Schuylkill River	eighth-largest combined statistical area	Table of United States Combined Statistical Areas
