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Wyoming Valley is a region of Northeastern Pennsylvania shaped like a crescent and part of the ridge-and-valley or folded Appalachians, which includes the metropolitan areas of Scranton and Wilkes-Barre . Consisting of the following counties: Luzerne. Lackawanna. Wyoming.
The nickname "Keystone State" originates with the agricultural and architectural term "keystone", and is based on the central role that Pennsylvania played geographically and functionally among the original Thirteen Colonies from which the nation was established, the important founding documents, including the Declaration of Independence and U ...
May 10, 1982 [1] Centre County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 158,172. [2] Its county seat is Bellefonte. [3] Centre County comprises the State College, PA Metropolitan Statistical Area. The county is part of the Central Pennsylvania region of the state.
The Pennsylvania Dutch region in south-central Pennsylvania is a favorite for sightseers. The Pennsylvania Dutch, including the Amish, Mennonites, and at least 15 other sects are common in the rural areas around the cities of Lancaster, York, and Harrisburg with smaller populations extending northeast to the Lehigh Valley and up to the Susquehanna Valley.
This is a list of towns and boroughs in Pennsylvania. There are currently 956 municipalities classified as boroughs and one classified as a town in Pennsylvania. Unlike other forms of municipalities in Pennsylvania, boroughs and towns are not classified according to population. Boroughs designated in the table below with a dagger (†) are home ...
Centralia mine fire. Steam rising through a fissure in the ground in the closed-off area of former Pennsylvania Route 61 in 2010. The melted snow, which covered the ground around it, shows areas where heat is escaping from the ground below. The Centralia mine fire is a coal-seam fire which has been burning in the labyrinth of abandoned coal ...
The Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts is back with a packed schedule of performances after a two-year absence. Entertainment venues are scattered around downtown State College and on Penn ...
Pennsylvania 's physiographic provinces. The Coal Region of Northeastern Pennsylvania has abundant anthracite coal, a high-value energy source. The Geology of Pennsylvania consists of six distinct physiographic provinces, three of which are subdivided into different sections. Each province has its own economic advantages and geologic hazards ...