Pennsylvania
Lehigh
City of Allentown

Allentown

Allentown is the largest city in the region of eastern , the county seat and largest city in Lehigh County, and the third-largest city in Pennsylvania after and with a population of 125,845 as of 2020.
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  • Type: City with 120,000 residents
  • Description: county seat city in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, United States
  • Also known as: “Allentown, PA”, “Allentown, Pennsylvania”, “Northampton”, and “Northamptontown”
  • Postal codes: 18101-18106, 18109, and 18195
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include PPL Center and Trout Hall.

Stadium
Photo: Hunter Kahn, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is an 8,500-seat capacity indoor sports arena in Allentown, Pennsylvania. It opened on September 10, 2014. It is the home arena for the Lehigh Valley Phantoms of the American Hockey League, the primary development hockey team for the Philadelphia Flyers.

Historic building
Photo: Alphageekpa, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is an historic home located at Allentown in . One of the older homes in Allentown, it was built between 1768 and 1770, and is a two-and-one-half-story, built with stone in Georgian architectural style.

Museum
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The of the Lehigh Valley is an art museum located in Allentown, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1934 by a group organized by Walter Emerson Baum, a Pennsylvania impressionist painter.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Scherersville.

Hamlet
is an unincorporated community in , . It is located on , mainly in and also in .

Allentown

Latitude
40.6022° or 40° 36′ 8″ north
Longitude
-75.4718° or 75° 28′ 18″ west
Population
120,000
Elevation
338 feet (103 metres)
IATA airport code
ABE
United Nations Location Code
US AWN
Open location code
87G6JG2H+V7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 60069043
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
5178127
Wiki­data ID
Q142811
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yakut—“Allentown” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ألينتاون”
  • Armenian: “Ալլենթաուն”
  • Azerbaijani: “Allentaun”
  • Basque: “Allentown”
  • Bavarian: “Allenschteddel”
  • Belarusian: “Алентаўн”
  • Bengali: “অ্যালেনটাউন, পেনসিলভেনিয়া”
  • Bengali: “অ্যালেনটাউন”
  • Breton: “Allentown”
  • Bulgarian: “Алънтаун”
  • Catalan: “Allentown”
  • Cebuano: “Allentown”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئاڵن تاون”
  • Chechen: “Аллентаун”
  • Chinese: “Allentown”
  • Chinese: “艾伦敦”
  • Chinese: “艾倫敦”
  • Chinese: “阿伦敦”
  • Chinese: “阿倫敦”
  • Chuvash: “Аллентаун”
  • Cornish: “Allentown, Pennsylvani”
  • Cornish: “Allentown”
  • Czech: “Allentown”
  • Danish: “Allentown”
  • Dutch: “Allentown”
  • Esperanto: “Alentaŭno”
  • Esperanto: “Allentown”
  • Finnish: “Allentown, Pennsylvania”
  • Finnish: “Allentown”
  • French: “Allentown”
  • Galician: “Allentown, Pensilvania”
  • Galician: “Allentown”
  • German: “Allentown”
  • Gilaki: “آلن‌تاؤن (پنسيلوانيا)”
  • Gilaki: “آلن‌تاؤن”
  • Greek: “Άλενταουν (Πενσυλβάνια)”
  • Greek: “Άλενταουν”
  • Greek: “Άλλενταουν”
  • Gujarati: “એલેનટાઉન”
  • Haitian: “Allentown, Pennsilvani”
  • Haitian: “Allentown”
  • Hebrew: “אלנטאון”
  • Hindi: “एलनटाउन”
  • Hungarian: “Allentown (Pennsylvania)”
  • Hungarian: “Allentown, Pennsylvania”
  • Hungarian: “Allentown”
  • Indonesian: “Allentown, Pennsylvania”
  • Indonesian: “Allentown”
  • Interlingua: “Allentown”
  • Irish: “Allentown, Pennsylvania”
  • Irish: “Allentown”
  • Italian: “Allentown”
  • Japanese: “アレンタウン”
  • Kannada: “ಅಲ್ಲೆನ್ ಟೌನ್”
  • Korean: “앨런타운”
  • Ladin: “Allentown”
  • Latin: “Allentown”
  • Latvian: “Alentauna”
  • Lithuanian: “Alentaunas”
  • Macedonian: “Алентаун”
  • Malagasy: “Allentown, Pennsylvania”
  • Malagasy: “Allentown”
  • Malay: “Allentown”
  • Marathi: “अल्लेनटाउन”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Allentown”
  • Northern Frisian: “Allentown”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Allentown”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Allentown”
  • Norwegian: “Allentown”
  • Ossetian: “Аллентаун”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Allenschteddel, Pennsilfaani”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Allenschteddel”
  • Persian: “آلن‌تاون، پنسیلوانیا”
  • Persian: “آلن‌تاون”
  • Piemontese: “Allentown”
  • Polish: “Allentown”
  • Portuguese: “Allentown”
  • Romanian: “Allentown, Pennsylvania”
  • Romanian: “Allentown”
  • Russian: “Аллентаун”
  • Sardinian: “Allentown”
  • Scots: “Allentown”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Allentown, Pennsylvania”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Allentown”
  • Serbian: “Алентаун”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Allentown, Pennsylvania”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Allentown”
  • Silesian: “Allentown”
  • Sinhala: “ඇලන්ටවුන්”
  • Slovak: “Allentown”
  • Slovenian: “Allentown”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آلن‌تاون، پنسیلوانیا”
  • Spanish: “Allentown (Pensilvania)”
  • Spanish: “Allentown”
  • Swahili: “Allentown, Pennsylvania”
  • Swahili: “Allentown”
  • Swedish: “Allentown, Pennsylvania”
  • Swedish: “Allentown”
  • Tagalog: “Allentown, Pennsylvania”
  • Tagalog: “Allentown”
  • Tamil: “அல்லென்நகரம்”
  • Tatar: “Аллентаун”
  • Telugu: “అల్లెన్ పట్టణం”
  • Thai: “อัลเลนทาวน์”
  • Thai: “แอลเลนทาวน์”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Allentown, Pennsylvania”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Allentown”
  • Turkish: “Allentown, Pensilvanya”
  • Turkish: “Allentown”
  • Ukrainian: “Аллентаун”
  • Urdu: “ایلن ٹاؤن، پنسلوانیا”
  • Urdu: “ایلن ٹاؤن”
  • Uzbek: “Allentown”
  • Venetian: “Allentown”
  • Vietnamese: “Allentown, Pennsylvania”
  • Vietnamese: “Allentown”
  • Volapük: “Allentown”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Allentown, Pennsylvania”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Allentown”
  • Welsh: “Allentown, Pennsylvania”
  • Welsh: “Allentown”
  • Western Panjabi: “ایلن ٹاؤن”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿伦敦 (宾夕法尼亚州)”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿伦敦（宾夕法尼亚州）”
  • Yakut: “Аллентоун”
  • “Allentown”

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