Freeland
Freeland is a borough in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States. It was originally called Birbeckville, South Heberton, and Freehold. Freeland is 18 miles south of Wilkes-Barre and 10 miles northeast of Hazleton.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 3,440 residents
- Description: borough in southern Luzerne County, Pennsylvania
- Also known as: “Birbeckville, Pennsylvania”, “Freehold”, “Freeland, PA”, and “Freeland, Pennsylvania”
- Postal code: 18224
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Drifton and Japan.
Drifton
Hamlet
Drifton is an unincorporated community located in Hazle Township in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. Drifton is located along Pennsylvania Route 940, northwest of Jeddo and southwest of Freeland.
Japan
Hamlet
Japan is a small village in eastern Hazle Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, located on Route 940. It is located just west of the borough of Jeddo and these two names were designated by the Hazleton Coal Company, which used the Japanese port of Jeddo. Japan is situated 2 miles south of Freeland.
Eckley
Hamlet
Photo: KLOTZ, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Eckley Miners' Village in eastern Pennsylvania is an anthracite coal mining patch town located in Foster Township, Pennsylvania. Since 1970, Eckley has been owned and operated as a museum by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. Eckley is situated 2½ miles southeast of Freeland.
Freeland
- Categories: borough of Pennsylvania and locality
- Location: Borough of Freeland, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
41.01675° or 41° 1′ 0″ northLongitude
-75.89714° or 75° 53′ 50″ westPopulation
3,440Elevation
1,864 feet (568 metres)United Nations Location Code
US FQDOpen location code
87H62483+P4OpenStreetMap ID
node 158453717OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Freeland” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “فريلاند”
- Basque: “Freeland”
- Catalan: “Freeland”
- Cebuano: “Freeland”
- Chechen: “Фриленд”
- Chinese: “Freeland”
- Dutch: “Freeland”
- French: “Freeland”
- German: “Freeland”
- Gilaki: “فريلند (پنسيلوانيا)”
- Gilaki: “فريلند”
- Haitian: “Freeland, Pennsilvani”
- Haitian: “Freeland”
- Italian: “Freeland”
- Ladin: “Freeland”
- Lithuanian: “Frilandas”
- Malagasy: “Freeland, Pennsylvania”
- Malagasy: “Freeland”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Freeland”
- Portuguese: “Freeland”
- Serbian: “Фриланд”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Freeland, Pennsylvania”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Freeland”
- Spanish: “Freeland”
- Swedish: “Freeland, Pennsylvania”
- Swedish: “Freeland”
- Tatar: “Фриленд”
- Ukrainian: “Фріленд”
- Urdu: “فری لینڈ، پنسلوانیا”
- Urdu: “فری لینڈ”
- Uzbek: “Freeland”
- Uzbek: “Фрееланд”
- Vietnamese: “Freeland, Pennsylvania”
- Vietnamese: “Freeland”
- Volapük: “Freeland”
- Welsh: “Freeland, Pennsylvania”
- Welsh: “Freeland”
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