What is Wilmington, Delaware?
{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2020}} {{Infobox settlement | name = Wilmington, Delaware | official_name = City of Wilmington | settlement_type = [[List of incorporated places in Delaware|City]] | named_for = [[Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington]] | nickname = Corporate Capital of the World, Chemical Capital of the World | motto = In the middle of it all<ref>{{cite news| title=New signs welcome folks to Delaware's largest city| date=December 7, 2012| last=Min| first=Shirley| url=http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/local/delaware-feature/48043-new-signs-welcome-folks-to-delawares-largest-city| work=[[WHYY-FM]] News| accessdate=March 17, 2016| archive-date=March 5, 2016| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305045231/http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/local/delaware-feature/48043-new-signs-welcome-folks-to-delawares-largest-city| url-status=dead}}</ref> | etymology = Named after [[Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington|Spencer Compton]], [[Earl of Wilmington]] | image_skyline = Wilmington Delaware skyline.jpg | imagesize = | image_caption = Downtown Wilmington and the [[Christina River]] | image_flag = Flag of the City of Wilmington.png | image_map = File:New Castle County Delaware Incorporated and Unincorporated areas Wilmington Highlighted 1077580.svg | mapsize = 300px | map_caption = Location of Wilmington in New Castle County, Delaware. | pushpin_map = Delaware#USA | pushpin_label_position = | pushpin_label = Wilmington | pushpin_map_caption = Location within the state of Delaware <!-- Location -->| subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = {{USA}} | subdivision_type1 = State | subdivision_name1 = {{flag|Delaware}} | subdivision_type2 = [[List of counties in Delaware|County]] | subdivision_name2 = {{flagicon image|Flag of New Castle County, Delaware.gif}} [[New Castle County, Delaware|New Castle]] | government_footnotes = | government_type = | leader_ti