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Philadelphia is a proper noun. It is the name of a particular city and is proper and should be capitalized. Names of specific individuals, people or things, such as cities,states,rivers,countries, are proper. Common nouns are the the names of classes of things. Example of common nouns are city, town, person, place, country,river. Common nouns are not capitalized .

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Philadelphia is a proper noun because it is the name of a specific city.

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