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The following is a list of the 70 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.
Counties constituting the Coal Region of Pennsylvania The Coal Region is a term used to refer to an area of Northeastern Pennsylvania in the central Appalachian Mountains . The region is home to the largest known deposits of anthracite coal in the world with an estimated a reserve of seven billion tons.
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 is composed of the State College, PA Metropolitan Statistical Area. The county is part of the Central Pennsylvania region of the state. [a]
North Central Pennsylvania has no major sports franchises. However, Pennsylvania State University is located in Centre County . As part of the Big Ten Conference the University has a massive athletic grasp on this region, in terms of sporting events and camps.
Pennsylvania is a state located in the Northeastern United States. As of the 2020 U.S. census, Pennsylvania is the fifth-most populous state with 13,002,700 inhabitants [1] and the 32nd-largest by land area spanning 44,742.70 square miles (115,883.1 km 2) of land. [2] Pennsylvania is divided into 67 counties and contains 2,560 municipalities.
Map of average income by location in Pennsylvania from the 2014 American Community Survey five-year estimate. Outside of the Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Harrisburg metropolitan areas, Pennsylvania is a relatively poorer state, especially in the northern areas and the Appalachian Mountains; only 22% of Pennsylvania places have per capita incomes higher than the national per capita income, and ...
The five Pennsylvania counties where the estimated growth rate was highest from 2022 to 2023 are Pike County, with a population increase of 1.1%; Cumberland County, with a population increase of 0.8%;
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 rule municipalities and are also found in the List of Pennsylvania municipalities and counties with home rule charters, optional charters, or optional plans. The ...