Atlantic City is a city in Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States, and a nationally renowned resort city for gambling, shopping and fine dining. The city also served as the inspiration for 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.

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 Pike (US 30) and the Atlantic City Expressway. Atlantic City is roughly 120 miles south of New York City by road, 62 miles southeast of Philadelphia, and borders Absecon, Brigantine, Pleasantville, Ventnor and West Atlantic City (part of Egg Harbor Township).

ArenasEdit

• Atlantic City Boardwalk Hall
• Trump Plaza

EventsEdit

• WrestleMania IV - March 27, 1988.
• WrestleMania V - April 2, 1989.
• RAW - August 18, 1997.
• Velocity - July 13, 2002.
• Smackdown - March 11, 2004.
• RAW - August 28, 2006.
• ECW - April 29, 2008.
• Smackdown - May 2, 2008.

WrestlersEdit

• EZ Money
• Jack Victory
• Tank Toland

External LinksEdit

• Atlantic City, New Jersey on Wikipedia