Lancaster
Lancaster is a city of around 59,000 people in Lancaster County in the Pennsylvania Dutch Country. It is one of the oldest inland towns in the United States, and the center of an area inhabited by many members of the Amish community.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 59,300 residents
- Description: city in central Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Also known as: “Hickory Town”, “Lancaster, PA”, and “Lancaster, Pennsylvania”
- Postal codes: 17601-17608, 17622, and 17699
Places of Interest
Highlights include Penn Medicine Park and Wheatland.
Penn Medicine Park
Stadium
Penn Medicine Park is a baseball park located in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in the Northwest Corridor neighborhood. It is the home of the Lancaster Stormers, the city's Atlantic League of Professional Baseball franchise.
Wheatland
Museum
Wheatland, or the James Buchanan House, is a brick Federal style house which is located in Lancaster Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, outside of Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Demuth Museum
Museum
Photo: Smallbones, Public domain.
Demuth Museum in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States, is a museum dedicated to the paintings of Charles Demuth located in his former studio and home at 120 East King Street.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Millersville and Bausman.
Millersville
Town
Millersville is a borough in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States. At the 2020 census, the population was 7,629 and in 2021 it was estimated at 7,593. Millersville is home to Millersville University of Pennsylvania.
Bausman
Hamlet
Bausman is an unincorporated community in Lancaster Township in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States.
Lyndon
Hamlet
Lyndon is an unincorporated community located in West Lampeter Township in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States. Lyndon is located just south of the city of Lancaster along U.S. Route 222.
Lancaster
Latitude
40.0397° or 40° 2′ 23″ northLongitude
-76.3044° or 76° 18′ 16″ westPopulation
59,300Elevation
361 feet (110 metres)IATA airport code
LNSOpen location code
87G52MQW+V6OpenStreetMap ID
node 99042439OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Western Panjabi—“Lancaster” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Lancaster”
- Albanian: “Lancaster, Pennsylvania”
- Albanian: “Lancaster”
- Arabic: “لانكستر”
- Armenian: “Լանկաստեր”
- Asturian: “Lancaster”
- Azerbaijani: “Lankaster”
- Basque: “Lancaster”
- Belarusian: “Ланкастэр”
- Bengali: “ল্যানক্যাস্টার”
- Bulgarian: “Ланкастър”
- Catalan: “Lancaster”
- Cebuano: “Lancaster”
- Chechen: “Ланкастер”
- Chinese: “Lancaster”
- Chinese: “兰开斯特”
- Chinese: “蘭開斯特”
- Cornish: “Lancaster, Pennsylvani”
- Cornish: “Lancaster”
- Czech: “Lancaster”
- Danish: “Lancaster”
- Dutch: “Lancaster PA”
- Dutch: “Lancaster”
- Esperanto: “Lancaster”
- Esperanto: “Lankastro”
- Faroese: “Lancaster”
- Finnish: “Lancaster”
- French: “Lancaster”
- German: “Lancaster”
- Gilaki: “لنکستر”
- Greek: “Λάνκαστερ”
- Gujarati: “લેન્કેસ્ટર”
- Haitian: “Lancaster, Pennsilvani”
- Haitian: “Lancaster”
- Hebrew: “לנקסטר”
- Hindi: “लैनकास्टर”
- Hungarian: “Lancaster”
- Indonesian: “Lancaster, Pennsylvania”
- Indonesian: “Lancaster”
- Irish: “Lancaster, Pennsylvania”
- Irish: “Lancaster”
- Italian: “Lancaster”
- Japanese: “ランカスター”
- Kannada: “ಲ್ಯಾನ್ಕ್ಯಾಸ್ಟರ್”
- Korean: “랭커스터”
- Ladin: “Lancaster”
- Latvian: “Lankastera”
- Lithuanian: “Lankasteris”
- Luxembourgish: “Lancaster”
- Malagasy: “Lancaster, Pennsylvania”
- Malagasy: “Lancaster”
- Malay: “Lancaster”
- Marathi: “लँकेस्टर”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Lancaster”
- Northern Frisian: “Lancaster”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lancaster”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lancaster”
- Norwegian: “Lancaster”
- Panjabi: “ਲੈਂਕਿਸਟਰ, ਪੈੱਨਸਿਲਵੇਨੀਆ”
- Panjabi: “ਲੈਂਕਿਸਟਰ”
- Pennsylvania German: “Lancaster”
- Pennsylvania German: “Lengeschder, PA”
- Pennsylvania German: “Lengeschder, Pennsilfaani”
- Pennsylvania German: “Lengeschder”
- Persian: “لنکستر، پنسیلوانیا”
- Persian: “لنکستر”
- Polish: “Lancaster”
- Portuguese: “Lancaster”
- Romanian: “Lancaster, Pennsylvania”
- Romanian: “Lancaster”
- Russian: “Ланкастер”
- Scots: “Lancaster”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Lancaster”
- Serbian: “Ланкастер”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Lancaster, Pennsylvania”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Lancaster”
- Silesian: “Lancaster”
- Sinhala: “ලැන්කැස්ටර්”
- Slovak: “Lancaster”
- Slovenian: “Lancaster”
- South Azerbaijani: “لنکستر، پنسیلوانیا”
- Spanish: “Lancaster (Pensilvania)”
- Spanish: “Lancaster”
- Swahili: “Lancaster, Pennsylvania”
- Swahili: “Lancaster”
- Swedish: “Lancaster, Pennsylvania”
- Swedish: “Lancaster”
- Tagalog: “Lancaster, Pennsylvania”
- Tagalog: “Lancaster”
- Tamil: “லஞ்சஸ்ட்டர்”
- Tatar: “Ланкастер (Пенсильвания)”
- Tatar: “Ланкастер”
- Telugu: “లాంకాస్టర్”
- Thai: “แลงคาสเตอร์”
- Turkish: “Lancaster, Pensilvanya”
- Turkish: “Lancaster”
- Ukrainian: “Ланкастер”
- Urdu: “لنکاسٹر، پنسلوانیا”
- Urdu: “لنکاسٹر”
- Uzbek: “Lancaster”
- Vietnamese: “Lancaster, Pennsylvania”
- Vietnamese: “Lancaster”
- Volapük: “Lancaster”
- Waray (Philippines): “Lancaster, Pennsylvania”
- Waray (Philippines): “Lancaster”
- Welsh: “Lancaster, Pennsylvania”
- Welsh: “Lancaster”
- Western Panjabi: “لنکاسٹر، پنسلوینیا”
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