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The following is a list of the 67 counties of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.The city of Philadelphia is coterminous with Philadelphia County, the municipalities having been consolidated in 1854, and all remaining county government functions having been merged into the city after a 1951 referendum.
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Primarily from the United States Government Printing Office Style Manual. [1] State names usually signify only parts of each listed state, unless otherwise indicated. Based on the BLM manual's 1973 publication date, and the reference to Clarke's Spheroid of 1866 in section 2-82, coordinates appear to be in the NAD27 datum.
The part of New York that is in this tri-state area is Fishers Island. It is the New London, Connecticut metro area. Delaware: New Jersey: Pennsylvania: Delaware River: Philadelphia metro area, at the east end of the Twelve-Mile Circle. Georgia: North Carolina: South Carolina
Wyoming County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 26,069. [1] Its county seat is Tunkhannock. [2] It was created in 1842 from part of Luzerne County. The county is part of the Northeast Pennsylvania region of the state. [a]
A map of Pennsylvania and the competing land claims during the colonial era A map of Pennsylvania counties in 1836; at the time, Lackawanna and Wyoming were still part of Luzerne County. The name Wyoming derives from the Lenape Munsee name xwéːwamənk, meaning "at the big river flat." [4]
Pennsylvania is one of 13 original colonies that share a border with Canada. Pennsylvania is 180 miles (290 km) north to south and 310 miles (500 km) east to west. The total land area is 44,817 square miles (116,080 km 2)—739,200 acres (2,991 km 2) of which are bodies of water. It is the 33rd largest state in the United States.
The borders of Colorado are now officially defined by 697 boundary markers connected by straight boundary lines. [3] Colorado, Wyoming, and Utah are the only states that have their borders defined solely by straight boundary lines with no natural features. [4] The southwest corner of Colorado is the Four Corners Monument at 36°59'56"N, 109°2 ...