Avoca
Avoca is a borough within the Greater Pittston area of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is located 7.5 miles northeast of Wilkes Barre and 3.4 miles southwest of Scranton.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 2,700 residents
- Description: borough in northeastern Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Also known as: “Avoca, PA”, “Avoca, Pennsylvania”, “Pleasant Valley”, and “Pleasant Valley, Pennsylvania”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport and Langcliffe Presbyterian Church.
Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport
Aerodrome
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Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport is mostly in Pittston Township, Pennsylvania, about 7 miles from Scranton and 8 mi from Wilkes-Barre. It spans the border between Luzerne County and Lackawanna County, and is owned and operated by the two counties.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Moosic and Suscon.
Moosic
Town
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Moosic is a borough in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, United States, 3 miles south of downtown Scranton and 10 miles northeast of downtown Wilkes-Barre, on the Lackawanna River.
Suscon
Hamlet
Suscon is an unincorporated community in Pittston Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States, northeast of Wilkes-Barre and south of Scranton. Suscon is situated 2½ miles south of Avoca.
Pittston
Town
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Pittston is a city in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States. The city lies in the Wyoming Valley on the east side of the Susquehanna River and on the south side of the Lackawanna River. Pittston is situated 3 miles west of Avoca.
Avoca
- Categories: borough of Pennsylvania and locality
- Location: Borough of Avoca, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
41.3398° or 41° 20′ 23″ northLongitude
-75.7363° or 75° 44′ 11″ westPopulation
2,700Elevation
810 feet (247 metres)United Nations Location Code
US AOCOpen location code
87H687Q7+WFOpenStreetMap ID
node 158300938OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Avoca” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أفوكا”
- Basque: “Avoca”
- Catalan: “Avoca”
- Cebuano: “Avoca”
- Chechen: “Авока”
- Chinese: “Avoca”
- Chinese: “阿沃卡”
- Dutch: “Avoca”
- French: “Avoca”
- German: “Avoca”
- Gilaki: “آووکا (پنسيلوانيا)”
- Gilaki: “آووکا”
- Haitian: “Avoca, Pennsilvani”
- Haitian: “Avoca”
- Italian: “Avoca”
- Japanese: “アヴォウカ”
- Japanese: “アヴォカ”
- Ladin: “Avoca”
- Malagasy: “Avoca, Pennsylvania”
- Malagasy: “Avoca”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Avoca”
- Portuguese: “Avoca”
- Serbian: “Авока”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Avoca, Pennsylvania”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Avoca”
- Spanish: “Avoca”
- Swedish: “Avoca, Pennsylvania”
- Swedish: “Avoca”
- Tatar: “Авока”
- Ukrainian: “Авока”
- Uzbek: “Avoca”
- Uzbek: “Авоcа”
- Vietnamese: “Avoca, Pennsylvania”
- Vietnamese: “Avoca”
- Volapük: “Avoca”
- Welsh: “Avoca, Pennsylvania”
- Welsh: “Avoca”
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Highlights include Plane Street Park and Avoca Municipal Building.
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