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Princeton is located in central New Jersey, USA, part of Mercer County and part of the greater New York City metropolitan area, about an hour's drive from New York City and 50 minutes from Philadelphia, making it easy to get around and quiet. The town is known globally for Princeton University (founded in 1746, one of the Ivy League schools) and the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study (where Albert Einstein worked for a long time), which has become one of the world's top academic research centers. The town is rich in history with a large number of 18th century colonial buildings, such as Nassau Hall (a Princeton University landmark) and Princeton Theological Seminary. Princeton is not only an educational town, but also has rich cultural resources, including the Princeton Museum of Art, McCarter Theatre, etc. Residents with high educational standards and a leisurely pace of life, known as one of the "most livable towns".
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