Camden, New Jersey, United States, is a trade, manufacturing, and transport centre, with two deep-water docking areas and major rail freight yards. Two bridges connect the city with Philadelphia. Chief products are electronic equipment, office supplies, and processed foods. The Camden campus (1927) of Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey (1927) is in the city. Camden's historic structures include the house in which the American poet Walt Whitman lived from 1873 until his death in 1892.

Camden was settled in 1681, and planned in 1773. Following the arrival of the railway in 1834, the city began rapid industrial growth enhanced by the opening of the Campbell Soup plant in 1862. The Victor Talking Machine Company (1894), later purchased by the Radio Corporation of America (RCA), developed the phonograph (record player) in Camden. The city is named after the British jurist Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden, a champion of colonial rights. Population (1980) 84,910; (1990) 87,492.

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