Wilmington is the largest city in the state of Delaware, United
States, and is located 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, Earl of Wilmington, who was prime minister in the reign
of George II of Great Britain.
According to the 2010 census, the
population of the city is 70,851, a decrease of 2.4%
