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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. [1] [2] Eight of the ten most populous ...
Current Pennsylvania state parks Park name County or counties Area in acres (ha) Date founded Stream(s) and / or lake(s) Remarks Image Allegheny Islands State Park: Allegheny County: 43 acres (17 ha) 1980: Allegheny River: Three alluvial islands near Pittsburgh with no facilities, and accessible only by boat
Pennsylvania ( / ˌpɛnsɪlˈveɪniə / ⓘ PEN-sil-VAY-nee-ə, lit. 'Penn's forest country' ), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania [b] ( Pennsylvania Dutch: Pennsylvanie ), [7] is a landlocked state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States.
October 29, 1982 [1] Interactive map of Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Bucks County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 646,538, [2] making it the fourth-most populous county in Pennsylvania. Its county seat is Doylestown. [3] The county is named after the English county of Buckinghamshire.
Allegheny County ( / ˌælɪˈɡeɪni / AL-ig-AY-nee) is a county in Pennsylvania, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 1,250,578, making it the state's second-most populous county, after Philadelphia County. Its county seat and most populous city is Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's second most populous city. [2]
The following is a list of the 3,143 counties and county-equivalents in the 50 states and District of Columbia sorted by U.S. state, plus an additional 100 county-equivalents in the U.S. territories sorted by territory. [1] [2] United States of America (50 states and DC) showing states divided into counties, or parishes in Louisiana, or ...
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is the fifth most populous of the 50 states of the United States. Pennsylvania lies west of the Delaware River in the Mid-Atlantic United States . King Charles II of England granted William Penn a charter for a Colony of Pennsylvania in 1681. Philadelphia, the capital of the colony, soon rose to become the most ...
Philadelphia County is the most populous of the 67 counties of Pennsylvania and the 24th-most populous county in the nation. As of the 2020 census, the county had a population of 1,603,797. [1] Its county seat is Philadelphia, the nation's sixth-largest city. The county is part of the Southeast Pennsylvania region of the state.