Chester County
Chester County, colloquially referred to as Chesco, is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It is located in the Delaware Valley region, located in the southeastern part of the state.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include West Chester and Phoenixville.
West Chester
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West Chester is a borough in Chester County in the Philadelphia Region of Pennsylvania. It is the county seat.
Phoenixville
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Phoenixville is a borough of 17,000 people in Chester County, Pennsylvania. It is part of the Philadelphia Metro Area. Phoenixville used to be a beaten-down mill town, but its downtown has been revitalized by 10 craft breweries and a distillery.
Oxford
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Oxford is a borough in Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States. Oxford is the closest town to Lincoln University. The population was 5,733 at the 2020 census.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Kennett Square and Downingtown.
Kennett Square
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Kennett Square is a small, suburban town in Chester County, Pennsylvania, approximately 50 miles west of Philadelphia. It is home to about 6,200 people and is known for its mushroom production.
Downingtown
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Downingtown is a borough in Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States, 33 miles west of Philadelphia. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 7,898.
Malvern
West Grove
West Grove is a borough in Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 2,775 at the 2020 census.Exton
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The city of Exton is in Chester County, Southeastern Pennsylvania, west of Philadelphia, along Route 30 Highway. Exton is part of the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-New Jersey metropolitan area.
Honey Brook
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Honey Brook is a quaint small town outside of Reading, in south-east Pennsylvania. Noted for its Amish farms, it is culturally part of the Pennsylvania Dutch Country, since it lies adjacent to Lancaster County.
Chester County
- Type: County with 499,000 residents
- Description: county in Pennsylvania, United States
- Also known as: “Chester”, “Chester County, PA”, and “Chester County, Pennsylvania”
- Neighbors: Delaware County, Lancaster County, and Montgomery County
- Categories: county of Pennsylvania and locality
- Location: Philadelphia Region, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude of center
39.9829° or 39° 58′ 59″ northLongitude of center
-75.7652° or 75° 45′ 55″ westPopulation
499,000Elevation
509 feet (155 metres)OpenStreetMap ID
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Western Panjabi—“Chester County” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Chester County”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة تشيستر”
- Armenian: “Չեստեր շրջան”
- Asturian: “condáu de Chester”
- Azerbaijani: “Çester qraflığı”
- Basque: “Chester konderria”
- Bavarian: “Chester County, Pennsylvania”
- Bavarian: “Chester County”
- Belarusian: “акруга Чэстэр”
- Belarusian: “Чэстэр (акруга, Пенсільванія)”
- Belarusian: “Чэстэр”
- Bishnupriya: “চেস্টার কাউন্টি, পেনসিলভানিয়া”
- Bishnupriya: “চেস্টার কাউন্টি”
- Bulgarian: “Честър”
- Catalan: “comtat de Chester”
- Catalan: “Comtat de Chester”
- Cebuano: “Chester County”
- Chechen: “Честер”
- Chinese: “Chester Kūn”
- Chinese: “切斯特縣”
- Cornish: “Konteth Chester, Pennsylvani”
- Cornish: “Konteth Chester”
- Danish: “Chester County”
- Dutch: “Chester County”
- Esperanto: “Chester County”
- Esperanto: “kantono Ĉestro”
- Esperanto: “kantono Chester”
- Esperanto: “Kantono Chester”
- Finnish: “Chesterin piirikunta”
- French: “Comte de Chester”
- French: “comté de Chester”
- French: “Comté de Chester”
- Georgian: “ჩესტერის ოლქი”
- German: “Chesco”
- German: “Chester County”
- Gilaki: “چستر ٚ شأرستان (پنسيلوانيا)”
- Gilaki: “چستر ٚ شأرستان”
- Greek: “κομητεία Τσέστερ”
- Greek: “Κομητεία Τσέστερ”
- Hebrew: “מחוז צ’סטר”
- Hungarian: “Chester megye”
- Irish: “Contae Chester, Pennsylvania”
- Irish: “Contae Chester”
- Italian: “contea di Chester”
- Italian: “Contea di Chester”
- Japanese: “チェスター・カウンティ”
- Japanese: “チェスター郡”
- Korean: “체스터군”
- Latin: “Chester Comitatus”
- Low German: “Chester County”
- Mazanderani: “چستر شهرستان”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Chester Gông”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Chester Kūn”
- Northern Frisian: “Chester County PA”
- Northern Frisian: “Chester County”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Chester County i Pennsylvania”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Chester County”
- Norwegian: “Chester County”
- Pennsylvania German: “Chester Kaundi”
- Pennsylvania German: “Tscheschter Kaundi”
- Persian: “شهرستان چستر، پنسیلوانیا”
- Persian: “شهرستان چستر”
- Polish: “Hrabstwo Chester”
- Portuguese: “Condado de Chester”
- Romanian: “Comitatul Chester, Pennsylvania”
- Romanian: “Comitatul Chester”
- Russian: “Честер”
- Sardinian: “contea de Chester”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Chester County”
- Serbian: “Округ Честер”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Chester County, Pennsylvania”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Chester County”
- Slovenian: “Chester County”
- Slovenian: “Okrožje Chester”
- Spanish: “Condado de Chester (Pensilvania)”
- Spanish: “Condado de Chester”
- Swedish: “Chester County, Pennsylvania”
- Swedish: “Chester County”
- Tatar: “Честер (округ, Пенсильвания)”
- Tatar: “Честер”
- Tumbuka: “Chester County”
- Turkish: “Chester County, Pa.”
- Turkish: “Chester County, PA”
- Turkish: “Chester County, Pensilvanya”
- Turkish: “Chester County”
- Turkish: “Chester ilçesi, Pa.”
- Turkish: “Chester ilçesi, PA”
- Turkish: “Chester ilçesi, Pensilvanya”
- Turkish: “Chester ilçesi”
- Ukrainian: “Честер”
- Urdu: “چیسٹر کاؤنٹی، پنسلوانیا”
- Urdu: “چیسٹر کاؤنٹی”
- Venetian: “contea de Chester”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Chester, Pennsylvania”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Chester”
- Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Chester, Pennsylvania”
- Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Chester”
- Welsh: “Chester County, Pennsylvania”
- Welsh: “Chester County”
- Western Panjabi: “چیسٹر کاؤنٹی”
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