Atlantic City

Atlantic City is a city in Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States, and an internationally renowned resort city for gambling, conventions and leisure. The city also served as the inspiration for the American version of the board game Monopoly. Atlantic City is located on Absecon Island on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city has a population of 39,558. There were 274,549 people living in the Atlantic City–Hammonton Metropolitan Statistical Area as of the 2010 Census. Atlantic City officially became a city in 1854. The new city contained portions of Egg Harbor Township and Galloway Township. The three routes into Atlantic City are the Black Horse Pike/Harding Highway (US 322/40), White Horse...