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United States of America (US, USA) (Philadelphia PA)

State Defunct 1790 CE – 1799 CE Capital Philadelphia Philadelphia Pennsylvania United States

Philadelphia, the site of the First and Second Continental Congresses, had been one of the United States capitals in the Revolutionary War, and serves as temporary U.S. capital while Washington, D.C., is under construction.

At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the federal and state governments leave Philadelphia, but the city will continue for some years to be the country's cultural and financial center.

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