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Baltimore (/ˈbɔːltɪˌmɔːr/ BAWL-tih-mor, locally /ˌbɔːldɪˈmɔːr/ BAWL-dih-MOR or /ˈbɔːlmər/ BAWL-mər), also known as Baltimore City, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maryland. It is the 30th-most populous U.S. city with a population of 585,708 at the 2020 census and estimated at 569,997 in 2025, while the Baltimore metropolitan area at 2.86 million residents is the 22nd-largest metropolitan area in the nation. The city is also part of the Washington–Baltimore combined statistical area, which had a population of 9.97 million in 2020. Baltimore was designated as an independent city by the Constitution of Maryland in 1851. Though not located under the jurisdiction of any county in the state, it forms part of the Central Maryland region together with the surrounding county that shares its name.

The land that is present-day Baltimore was once used as hunting ground by Paleo-Indians. In the early 1600s, the Susquehannock began to hunt there. People from the Province of Maryland established the Port of Baltimore in 1706 to support the tobacco trade with Europe and established the Town of Baltimore in 1729. During the American Revolutionary War, the Second Continental Congress briefly moved its deliberations to the Henry Fite House from December 1776 to February 1777 prior to the capture of Philadelphia to British troops, which permitted Baltimore to serve briefly as the nation's capital before it returned to Philadelphia. The Battle of Baltimore was pivotal during the War of 1812, culminating in the British bombardment of Fort McHenry, during which Francis Scott Key wrote a poem that became "The Star-Spangled Banner", which was designated as the national anthem in 1931. During the Pratt Street Riot of 1861, the city was the site of some of the earliest violence associated with the American Civil War. (Full article...)

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The Baltimore Light RailLink (formerly Baltimore Light Rail, also known simply as the "Light Rail") is a light rail system serving Baltimore, Maryland, United States, and its northern and southern suburbs. It is operated by the Maryland Transit Administration (MTA Maryland) and runs from Hunt Valley to Glen Burnie, with a spur to BWI Airport.

In downtown Baltimore, it uses street-embedded tracks. Outside the central portions of the city, the line is located on private rights-of-way, mostly from the defunct Northern Central Railway, Baltimore and Annapolis Railroad and Washington, Baltimore and Annapolis Electric Railway. The system had a ridership of 5,015,100, or about 13,900 per weekday, as of the first quarter of 2026. (Full article...)

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Baltimore Basilica, the first cathedral built in the U.S.

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Florence Eilau Bamberger (October 19, 1882 – December 18, 1965) was an American pedagogue, school supervisor, progressive education advocate, and author. Influenced by the ideas of John Dewey, she researched, lectured, and wrote extensively on the concept of child-centered education. She spent most of her career as a professor of education in the department of philosophy at Johns Hopkins University, and was the first woman to attain a full professorship at that university. From 1937 to 1947 she served as director of Johns Hopkins' College for Teachers. After her retirement, she taught in private elementary schools in Baltimore, Maryland. (Full article...)

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... that viruses can be catalogued into seven groups in the Baltimore classification?
... that Johns Hopkins University and the City of Baltimore agreed to demolish the city's former U.S. Marine Hospital in 1987, and then changed their minds in 2019?
... that Randy Newman's song "Baltimore" inspired a city official to respond with a poem criticizing Newman?

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Image 1An 1864 map of Baltimore (from History of Baltimore)
Image 2Map of Chesapeake Bay area by John Senex, 1719, with Baltimore County labeled near Maryland's border with Pennsylvania. (from History of Baltimore)
Image 3Francis Kenrick, the sixth Archbishop of Baltimore (1851–1863). (from History of Baltimore)
Image 4Worker assembling an aircraft at the Glenn L. Martin plant in Baltimore (from History of Baltimore)
Image 5Child labor at J.S. Farrand Packing Company in Baltimore, 1909. Photo by Lewis Hine. (from History of Baltimore)
Image 6View of Baltimore from Chapel Hill, by Francis Guy, 1802-03 (Brooklyn Museum) (from History of Baltimore)
Image 7Great Baltimore Fire of 1904, looking West from East Pratt and North Gay Streets (from Great Baltimore Fire)
Image 8Sharp Street Church was established 1787, the existing building having been erected in 1898 (from History of Baltimore)
Image 9Mount Clare Mansion, known today as the Mount Clare Museum House, is the oldest Colonial-era structure in Baltimore. (from History of Baltimore)
Image 10Baltimore Street Map, 1838 (from History of Baltimore)
Image 11Blue crabs (from Culture of Baltimore)
Image 12Storefront of establishment selling Lake Trout in Baltimore (from Culture of Baltimore)
Image 13Baltimore railroad strike of 1877 (from History of Baltimore)
Image 14Same view in 1906, 2 years after the fire (from Great Baltimore Fire)
Image 15Baltimore & Ohio Railroad engine and passenger car from the 1830s. (from History of Baltimore)
Image 16John E. Hurst Building, site of the fire's outbreak (from Great Baltimore Fire)
Image 17Marylanders steam blue crabs, usually in water, beer, and Old Bay Seasoning. (from Culture of Baltimore)
Image 18South Baltimore (from List of Baltimore neighborhoods)
Image 19Marble steps in need of a scrubbing with Bon Ami powder and a pumice stone. East Fort Avenue, Locust Point, August 2014 (from Culture of Baltimore)
Image 20View of Baltimore by William Henry Bartlett (1809–1854) (from History of Baltimore)
Image 21An illustration of the aftermath of the Great Baltimore Fire in February 1904 (from Great Baltimore Fire)
Image 22Some of the more upscale rowhouses in Baltimore, like these brightly painted homes in Charles Village, have complete porches instead of stoops (from Culture of Baltimore)
Image 23Row houses like these in Locust Point historically comprised much of Baltimore's housing. (from Culture of Baltimore)
Image 24Baltimore Street Map, 1892 (from History of Baltimore)
Image 25East Midway (from List of Baltimore neighborhoods)
Image 26West Baltimore (from List of Baltimore neighborhoods)
Image 27The Baltimore riot of 1861 (from History of Baltimore)

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