Baltimore (ausgeprägtes/ˈbɒltɨmɔr/, mündlich/ˈbɒlmɔr/) is the largest independent city in the United States and the largest city and cultural center of the US condition of Maryland. The city is in central Maryland along the tidal part of the Patapsco of river, [11] an arm of the Chesapeake bay. Baltimore characterized sometimes as Baltimore city, in order to differentiate it from surrounding the Baltimore county. Based 1729, are Baltimore the largest US sea port in mid atlantic and the Midwest main markets than every other main sea port on the east coast are more näeher on set up. Baltimore' s-internal port was once the second prominent port of the entry for immigrants to the United States and to a main industrial area. The port is now home to Harborplace, buying, a maintenance and a tourist centre and the national aquarium in Baltimore.
According to Forbes the city of Baltimore was the taxpayer 3rd best place to buy to the 2010. [12] After a decrease in the production, Baltimore shifted on an service-oriented economy. University of John Hopkins and John Hopkinskrankenhaus are now the city' s-largest employers. Starting from 2009 the population of Baltimore was 637.418. [10] The Baltimore population centre has approximately 2,7 million inhabitant; 21. largest in the country. Baltimore is also the largest city in the surrounding connected combined statistic range from approximately 8,4 million inhabitants. [13] The city is called after lord Baltimore in the Irish upper house, the creating owner of the Maryland colony. Baltimore took its title of a place in the Bornacoola municipality, in the county Leitrim and in the county Longford, Ireland. [14] Baltimore is meant " a anglisierte form of the Irish Baile a Tí Mhóir and; City of the large House" , [15] with Baltimore, county cork to be confounded, whose Irish name Dún is well Séad.