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King of Prussia, Pennsylvania

Census-designated place in Pennsylvania, United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 24, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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King of Prussia, sometimes abbreviated to K.O.P., is a census-designated place in Upper Merion Township in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States. The community took its unusual name in the 18th century from a local tavern named the King of Prussia Inn, which was named after King Frederick the Great of Prussia. As of the 2020 census, its population was 24,695.

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The public source identifies “King of Prussia, Pennsylvania” as census-designated place in Pennsylvania, United States. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around King, Prussia and Pennsylvania.

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This entry incorporates text from “King of Prussia, Pennsylvania” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.