Lehigh
Lehigh County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the county's population was 374,557. Its county seat is Allentown, the state's third-largest city after Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: County with 349,000 residents
- Description: county in Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Also known as: “Lehigh County”, “Lehigh County, PA”, and “Lehigh County, Pennsylvania”
- Neighbors: Bucks County and Montgomery County
Places of Interest
Highlights include Wehr Covered Bridge and Shankweiler’s Drive-In.
Wehr Covered Bridge
Bridge
Photo: Zeete, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Wehr Covered Bridge is a historic wooden covered bridge located in South Whitehall Township of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. It is a three span, 117-foot-long, Burr Truss bridge, constructed in 1841.
Rex Covered Bridge
Photo: Lehigh Valley, PA, CC BY 2.0.
Rex Covered Bridge is a historic wooden covered bridge located in North Whitehall Township in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. It is a 150-foot-long, Burr Truss bridge, constructed in 1858.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Fogelsville and Orefield.
Fogelsville
Fogelsville is an unincorporated community of about 3,200 people in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania. Fogelsville surrounds a number of large industrial parks and corporate centers.Orefield
Hamlet
Photo: Doug Kerr, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Orefield is a small unincorporated community in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. The community is split between North Whitehall and South Whitehall townships.
Wescosville
Village
Wescosville is a census-designated place located in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. It is located between Allentown and Trexlertown in Lower Macungie Township.
Lehigh
- Categories: county of Pennsylvania, home rule county of Pennsylvania, and locality
- Location: Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.6096° or 40° 36′ 35″ northLongitude
-75.6049° or 75° 36′ 18″ westPopulation
349,000Elevation
545 feet (166 metres)Open location code
87G6J95W+R3OpenStreetMap ID
node 316987689OpenStreetMap feature
place=countyGeoNames ID
5197646Wikidata ID
Q494117
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Western Panjabi—“Lehigh” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Lehigh County”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة ليهاي”
- Armenian: “Լեհայ շրջան”
- Armenian: “Լիհայ շրջան”
- Asturian: “condáu de Lehigh”
- Azerbaijani: “Lihay qraflığı (Pensilvaniya)”
- Azerbaijani: “Lihay qraflığı”
- Basque: “Lehigh konderria”
- Bavarian: “Lehigh County, Pennsylvania”
- Bavarian: “Lehigh County”
- Belarusian: “акруга Ліхай”
- Belarusian: “Ліхай (акруга, Пенсільванія)”
- Bishnupriya: “লেহাই কাউন্টি, পেনসিলভানিয়া”
- Bishnupriya: “লেহাই কাউন্টি”
- Bulgarian: “Лихай”
- Catalan: “comtat de Lehigh”
- Cebuano: “Lehigh County”
- Chechen: “Лихай”
- Chinese: “Lehigh Kūn”
- Chinese: “利哈伊县”
- Chinese: “利哈伊縣”
- Cornish: “Konteth Lehigh, Pennsylvani”
- Cornish: “Konteth Lehigh”
- Dutch: “Lehigh County”
- Esperanto: “kantono Lehigh”
- Esperanto: “Kantono Lehigh”
- Esperanto: “Lehigh County”
- Finnish: “Lehigh’n piirikunta”
- French: “comté de Lehigh”
- French: “Comté de Lehigh”
- Georgian: “ლიჰაის ოლქი”
- German: “Lehigh County”
- Gilaki: “لههای ٚ شأرستان (پنسيلوانيا)”
- Gilaki: “لههای ٚ شأرستان”
- Hebrew: “מחוז ליהיי”
- Hungarian: “Lehigh megye”
- Irish: “Contae Lehigh, Pennsylvania”
- Irish: “Contae Lehigh”
- Italian: “contea di Lehigh”
- Italian: “Contea di Lehigh”
- Japanese: “リーハイ郡”
- Korean: “리하이군”
- Latin: “Lehigh Comitatus”
- Low German: “Lehigh County”
- Mazanderani: “لههای شهرستان”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Lehigh Gông”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Lehigh Kūn”
- Northern Frisian: “Lehigh County”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lehigh County”
- Norwegian: “Lehigh County”
- Pennsylvania German: “Lechaa Kaundi”
- Persian: “شهرستان لههای، پنسیلوانیا”
- Persian: “شهرستان لههای”
- Polish: “Hrabstwo Lehigh”
- Portuguese: “condado de Lehigh”
- Portuguese: “Condado de Lehigh”
- Romanian: “Comitatul Lehigh, Pennsylvania”
- Romanian: “Comitatul Lehigh”
- Russian: “Лихай”
- Sardinian: “contea de Lehigh”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Lehigh County”
- Serbian: “Округ Лихај”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Lehigh County, Pennsylvania”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Lehigh County”
- Slovenian: “Lehigh County”
- Slovenian: “Okrožje Lehigh”
- Spanish: “Condado de Lehigh (Pensilvania)”
- Spanish: “condado de Lehigh”
- Spanish: “Condado de Lehigh”
- Swedish: “Lehigh County”
- Tatar: “Лихай (округ, Пенсильвания)”
- Tatar: “Лихай”
- Tumbuka: “Lehigh County”
- Turkish: “Lehigh County, Pa.”
- Turkish: “Lehigh County, PA”
- Turkish: “Lehigh County, Pensilvanya”
- Turkish: “Lehigh County”
- Turkish: “Lehigh ilçesi, Pa.”
- Turkish: “Lehigh ilçesi, PA”
- Turkish: “Lehigh ilçesi, Pensilvanya”
- Turkish: “Lehigh ilçesi”
- Ukrainian: “Лігай”
- Urdu: “لیہائی کاؤنٹی، پنسلوانیا”
- Urdu: “لیہائی کاؤنٹی”
- Venetian: “contea de Lehigh”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Lehigh, Pennsylvania”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Lehigh”
- Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Lehigh, Pennsylvania”
- Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Lehigh”
- Welsh: “Lehigh County, Pennsylvania”
- Welsh: “Lehigh County”
- Western Panjabi: “لی ہائی کاؤنٹی”
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Localities in the Area
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