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Pennsylvania is a state in the eastern . It is known for its Revolutionary War-era historical sites like Valley Forge, its large cities like and , its farming regions, and a -strong industrial history.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.

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, routinely referred to as Philly, is the birthplace of American democracy. In Independence Hall and in taverns and other locations around the city, the nation's founders planned and launched the American Revolution, which gave birth to the nation.

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The pleasure of remains a well-kept secret. Though not built up by reputation, the city's unique combination of bridges, steep hills, and broad rivers make it one of the most naturally scenic cities in the country.

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is the capital and 4th-largest metropolitan area of Pennsylvania, with a metro population of 592,000 people in 2020. is known as the host city of the Pennsylvania Farm Show, the largest free indoor agriculture exposition in the United…

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The is in eastern Pennsylvania. Its two largest cities are and . Philadelphia is the cradle of American democracy, a former capital of the and the nation's sixth-most populous city.

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The is the most southwestern part of Pennsylvania. It is an area rich with history and scenery, home to the metropolitan area of , old industrial towns, and some of the highest elevations in the state.

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is a region in Pennsylvania also referred to as South Central Pennsylvania. The region is home to many major tourist attractions such as Lancaster county's Amish country, Harrisburg's state capitol and museums and Hershey's chocolate world and theme park.

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is a region of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania that includes the , and the industrial cities of , , , , , and .

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The , or the Conservation Landscape, is a predominantly rural and forested region in northern central Pennsylvania, mostly within the Allegheny Plateau.

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The Susquehanna Valley of Pennsylvania lies in the south-central portion of the state and is near to the Pennsylvania state capital, Harrisburg. Additionally, the Susquehanna Valley is home to a few pockets of Amish and Mennonite culture.

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Pennsylvania's is aptly named; Erie is its largest city and Lake Erie is the huge inland sea on its doorstep. The area claims a population just short of 1 million people with steady increases since the last census.

Pennsylvania

Latitude of center
40.97° or 40° 58′ 12″ north
Longitude of center
-77.7279° or 77° 43′ 40″ west
Population
13,100,000
Elevation
1,273 feet (388 metres)
Abbreviation
“PA”
Open­Street­Map ID
node 316987717
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
6254927
Wiki­data ID
Q1400
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Pennsylvania” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Keystone-staat”
  • Afrikaans: “PA”
  • Afrikaans: “Pennsilvanië, Verenigde State”
  • Afrikaans: “Pennsilvanië, VSA”
  • Afrikaans: “Pennsilvanië”
  • Afrikaans: “Staat Pennsilvanië”
  • Afrikaans: “Statebond van Pennsilvanië”
  • Afrikaans: “US-PA”
  • Albanian: “Pennsylvania”
  • Albanian: “Pensilvania”
  • Amharic: “ፔንስልቬኒያ”
  • Arabic: “بنسلفانيا”
  • Arabic: “بنسلفينيا”
  • Arabic: “بنسيلفانيا”
  • Arabic: “بنسيلفينيا”
  • Arabic: “بينسلفانيا”
  • Arabic: “بينسلفينيا”
  • Arabic: “بينسيلفينيا”
  • Arabic: “پنسيلڤانيا”
  • Arabic: “ولاية بنسلفانيا”
  • Arabic: “ولاية بنسيلفانيا”
  • Aragonese: “Pennsilvania”
  • Armenian: “Փենսիլվանիա”
  • Asturian: “Pennsylvania”
  • Aymara: “Pennsylvania suyu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Pensilvaniya”
  • Balinese: “Pennsylvania”
  • Bashkir: “Пенсильвания”
  • Basque: “Pennsylvania”
  • Bavarian: “Pennsylvania”
  • Belarusian: “Пенсільванія”
  • Belarusian: “Пэнсыльванія”
  • Bengali: “কীস্টোন রাজ্য”
  • Bengali: “পেনসিলভানিয়া কমনওয়েলথ”
  • Bengali: “পেনসিলভানিয়া রাজ্য”
  • Bengali: “পেনসিলভানিয়া, মার্কিন যুক্তরাষ্ট্র”
  • Bengali: “পেনসিলভেনিয়া”
  • Bhojpuri: “पेंसिल्वेनिया”
  • Bishnupriya: “পেনসিলভানিয়া”
  • Bislama: “Pennsylvania”
  • Bosnian: “Pennsylvania”
  • Brahui: “Pensalveníá”
  • Breton: “PA”
  • Breton: “Pennsylvania”
  • Bulgarian: “Пенсилвания”
  • Burmese: “ပင်ဆယ်ဗေးနီးယားပြည်နယ်”
  • Burmese: “ပန်ဆယ်ဗေးနီးယား”
  • Burmese: “ပန်ဆယ်ဗေးနီးယားပြည်နယ်”
  • Burmese: “ပဲန်ဆီလ်ဗေးနီးယားပြည်နယ်”
  • Catalan: “PA”
  • Catalan: “Pennsilvània”
  • Cebuano: “Pennsylvania”
  • Central Bikol: “Pennsylvania”
  • Central Kanuri: “Pennsylvania”
  • Central Kurdish: “پەنسلڤانیا”
  • Central Kurdish: “پێنسیلڤانیا”
  • Central Kurdish: “پێنسیلوانیا”
  • Chavacano: “Pennsylvania”
  • Chechen: “Пенсильвани”
  • Cherokee: “ᎤᎩᏓᎵᏱ”
  • Chinese: “Pennsylvania”
  • Chinese: “宾夕法尼亚”
  • Chinese: “宾夕法尼亚州”
  • Chinese: “賓夕凡尼亞州”
  • Chinese: “賓夕法尼亞州”
  • Chinese: “賓州”
  • Chuvash: “Пенсильвани”
  • Cornish: “Pennsylvani”
  • Corsican: “Pennsylvania”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Pensilvaniya”
  • Croatian: “Pennsylvania”
  • Czech: “Commonwealth of Pennsylvania”
  • Czech: “Pennsylvania”
  • Czech: “Pensylvánie”
  • Dagbani: “Pennsylvania”
  • Danish: “Pennsylvania”
  • Danish: “Pennsylvanien”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Pennsylvania”
  • Dutch: “Gemenebest Pennsylvania”
  • Dutch: “Hoeksteen Staat”
  • Dutch: “PA”
  • Dutch: “Penna.”
  • Dutch: “Pennsylvania, VS”
  • Dutch: “Pennsylvania”
  • Dutch: “Pennsylvanië, Verenigde Staten”
  • Dutch: “Pennsylvanië”
  • Dutch: “Staat Pennsylvania”
  • Dutch: “US-PA”
  • Eastern Mari: “Пенсильваний”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بنسيلفانيا”
  • Esperanto: “Komunumo Pensilvanio”
  • Esperanto: “PA”
  • Esperanto: “Pensilvanio”
  • Estonian: “Pennsylvania”
  • Ewe: “Pennsylvania”
  • Faroese: “Pennsylvania”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Pennsylvania”
  • Finnish: “Pennsylvania”
  • Finnish: “Pennsylvanian yhteisö”
  • French: “Commonwealth de Pennsylvanie”
  • French: “État clef-de-voûte”
  • French: “État de Pennsylvanie”
  • French: “Pennsylvanie”
  • Gagauz: “Pensilvaniya”
  • Gagauz: “Pensilvanya”
  • Galician: “Commonwealth of Pennsylvania”
  • Galician: “Pennsylvania”
  • Galician: “Pensilvania”
  • Georgian: “პენსილვანია”
  • German: “Bundesstaat Pennsylvania”
  • German: “Commonwealth of Pennsylvania”
  • German: “Gemeinwesen von Pennsylvanien”
  • German: “Gmeinwäse vo Pennsylvania”
  • German: “PA”
  • German: “Pennsylvania, Vereinigte Staaten”
  • German: “Pennsylvania, Vereinigti Staate vo Amerika”
  • German: “Pennsylvania, Vereinigti Staate”
  • German: “Pennsylvania”
  • German: “Pennsylvanien”
  • German: “Schlussstein-Staat”
  • German: “US-PA”
  • Gothic: “𐍀𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍃𐌹𐌻𐌱𐌴𐌽𐌾𐌰”
  • Greek: “Πενσιλβάνια”
  • Greek: “Πενσυλβάνια”
  • Guarani: “Pensilvania”
  • Gujarati: “પેન્સિલ્વેનિયા”
  • Haitian: “Pènsilvani”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Pennsylvania”
  • Hausa: “Pennsylvania”
  • Hawaiian: “Penekelewinia”
  • Hebrew: “פנסילבניה”
  • Hindi: “पेनसिल्वेनिया”
  • Hindi: “पेन्नसिल्वेन्या”
  • Hindi: “पेन्सिलवेनिया”
  • Hungarian: “Commonwealth of Pennsylvania”
  • Hungarian: “Pennsylvania”
  • Icelandic: “Pennsylvania”
  • Icelandic: “Pennsylvanía”
  • Ido: “Pensilvania”
  • Igbo: “Pensílvéníyạ”
  • Iloko: “Pennsylvania”
  • Inari Sami: “Pennsylvania”
  • Indonesian: “Pennsylvania”
  • Interlingua: “Pennsylvania”
  • Interlingue: “Pensilvania”
  • Inupiaq: “Pennsylvania”
  • Irish: “an Pheinnsiolváin”
  • Irish: “Comhlathas Pennsylvania”
  • Irish: “PA”
  • Irish: “Peinnsiolváin”
  • Irish: “Pennsylvania, SAM”
  • Irish: “Pennsylvania, Stáit Aontaithe Mheiriceá”
  • Irish: “Pennsylvania”
  • Irish: “Stát Eochairchloiche”
  • Irish: “Stát Pennsylvania”
  • Italian: “Commonwealth della Pennsylvania”
  • Italian: “PA”
  • Italian: “Pennsylvania, Stati Uniti”
  • Italian: “Pennsylvania”
  • Italian: “US-PA”
  • Japanese: “ペンシルヴァニア”
  • Japanese: “ペンシルベニア州”
  • Javanese: “Pennsylvania”
  • Kabiyè: “Pɛnsilvaanii”
  • Kabyle: “Pennsylvania”
  • Kalmyk: “Пенсилвайни”
  • Kannada: “ಪೆನ್ಸಿಲ್ವೇನಿಯಾ”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Пенсильвания”
  • Kazakh: “Пенсильвания”
  • Khmer: “ផេនស៊ីលវ៉ានៀ”
  • Kirghiz: “Пенсильвания”
  • Korean: “펜실베이니아 주”
  • Korean: “펜실베이니아”
  • Korean: “펜실베이니아주”
  • Kurdish: “Pennsylvania”
  • Kurdish: “Pensîlvanya”
  • Ladin: “Pennsylvania”
  • Ladino: “Pennsilvania”
  • Latin: “Pennsilvania”
  • Latvian: “Pensilvānija”
  • Ligurian: “Pennsylvannia”
  • Limburgan: “Pennsylvania”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Pennsylvania”
  • Literary Chinese: “賓夕法尼亞州”
  • Lithuanian: “Pensilvanija”
  • Lombard: “Pennsylvania”
  • Low German: “PA”
  • Low German: “Pennsylvania”
  • Low German: “Pennsylvanie”
  • Low German: “Pennsylvaniske Gemeynebest”
  • Luxembourgish: “Pennsylvania”
  • Macedonian: “Пенсилванија”
  • Maithili: “पेन्सिलभेनिया”
  • Malagasy: “Pennsylvania”
  • Malay: “Pennsylvania”
  • Malayalam: “പെൻ‌സിൽ‌വാനിയ”
  • Manipuri: “ꯄꯦꯟꯟꯁꯤꯜꯚꯥꯅꯤꯌꯥ”
  • Manx: “Pennsylvania”
  • Maori: “Penehiwēnia”
  • Maori: “Pennsylvania”
  • Marathi: “पेनसिल्व्हेनिया”
  • Mazanderani: “پنسیلوانیا”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Pennsylvania”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Pennsylvania”
  • Mingrelian: “პენსილვანია”
  • Moksha: “Пэнсыльвания”
  • Mongolian: “Пеннсилвани”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “پانسيلڤانيا”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “پنسيلڤينيا”
  • Nauru: “Pennsylvania”
  • Navajo: “Beeʼeldíílsání Hahoodzo”
  • Nepali: “पेन्सिलभेनिया”
  • Newari: “पेन्सिल्भेनिया”
  • Northern Frisian: “Pennsylvania”
  • Northern Luri: “پنسیلوانیا”
  • Northern Sami: “Pennsylvania”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “PA”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Penn.”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Pennsylvania”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pennsylvania”
  • Norwegian: “Pennsylvania”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Pensilvània”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܦܢܣܝܠܒܐܢܝܐ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Pennsylvānia”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Pennwudland”
  • Ossetian: “Пенсильвани”
  • Pali: “पेन्सिल्भेनिया”
  • Pampanga: “Pennsylvania”
  • Panjabi: “ਪੈੱਨਸਿਲਵੇਨੀਆ”
  • Papiamento: “Pennsylvania”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Pennsilfaani”
  • Persian: “پنسیلوانیا”
  • Picard: “Pennsylvanie”
  • Piemontese: “Pennsylvania”
  • Polish: “Pensylwania”
  • Portuguese: “Estado da Pennsylvania”
  • Portuguese: “Estado da Pensilvânia”
  • Portuguese: “PA”
  • Portuguese: “Pennsylvania”
  • Portuguese: “Pensilvânia”
  • Pushto: “پنسلوانیا”
  • Pushto: “پېنسيلوانيا”
  • Quechua: “Pennsylvania suyu”
  • Romanian: “Pennsylvania”
  • Romansh: “Commonwealth da Pennsilvania”
  • Romansh: “Pennsilvania, Stadis Unids”
  • Romansh: “Pennsilvania”
  • Romansh: “Pennsylvania”
  • Romansh: “Stadi da Pennsilvania”
  • Russia Buriat: “Пенсильвани”
  • Russian: “Пенсильвания”
  • Rusyn: “Пенсилвания”
  • Samoan: “Penisilevania”
  • Samogitian: “Pensėlvanėjė”
  • Sanskrit: “पेन्‍सिल्‍वेनिया”
  • Santali: “ᱯᱮᱱᱥᱤᱞᱵᱷᱟᱱᱤᱭᱟ”
  • Sardinian: “Pennsylvania”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Pennsylvania”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Pennsylvanien”
  • Scots: “Pennsylvania”
  • Scots: “Pennsylvanie”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Pennsylvania”
  • Serbian: “Пенсилванија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Pennsylvania”
  • Sicilian: “Pennsylvania”
  • Silesian: “Pynsylwańijo”
  • Sindhi: “پينسلوانيا”
  • Sinhala: “පෙන්සිල්වේනියාව”
  • Sinhala: “පෙන්සේල්වේනියා”
  • Slovak: “Pensylvánia”
  • Slovenian: “Pensilvanija”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پنسیلوانیا ایالتی”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پنسیلوانیا”
  • Spanish: “Estado Cuáquero”
  • Spanish: “Estado de Pensilvania”
  • Spanish: “Estado Keystone”
  • Spanish: “Mancomunidad de Pensilvania”
  • Spanish: “PA”
  • Spanish: “Pensilvania (Estados Unidos)”
  • Spanish: “Pensilvania”
  • Sundanese: “Pennsylvania”
  • Swahili: “Pennsylvania”
  • Swedish: “Pennsylvania”
  • Swedish: “Pennsylvanien”
  • Swiss German: “Pennsylvania”
  • Tagalog: “Pennsylvania”
  • Tajik: “Пенсилвания”
  • Talysh: “Pensilvanijə”
  • Tamil: “பென்சில்வேனியா”
  • Tatar: “Пенсилвания”
  • Tatar: “Пенсильвания”
  • Telugu: “పెన్సిల్వేనియా”
  • Thai: “รัฐเพนซิลเวเนีย”
  • Tibetan: “ཕེན་སུལ་ཝེ་ནའི་ཡ།”
  • Tok Pisin: “Pensilvania”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Pennsylvania”
  • Tumbuka: “Pennsylvania”
  • Turkish: “Pa.”
  • Turkish: “PA”
  • Turkish: “Penn.”
  • Turkish: “Pensilvanya eyaleti”
  • Turkish: “Pensilvanya, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri”
  • Turkish: “Pensilvanya”
  • Turkish: “State of Pennsylvania”
  • Turkish: “US-PA”
  • Uighur: “Pénsilwaniye Shitati”
  • Ukrainian: “Пенсильванія”
  • Ukrainian: “Пенсільванія”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Pennsylvania”
  • Urdu: “پنسلوانیا”
  • Uzbek: “Pennsilvaniya”
  • Venetian: “Pennsylvania”
  • Vietnamese: “Pennsylvania”
  • Vlaams: “Pennsylvania”
  • Vlax Romani: “Pennsylvania”
  • Volapük: “Pennsylvania”
  • Volapük: “Pensülvän”
  • Võro: “Pennsylvania”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Pennsylvania”
  • Welsh: “Pennsylvania”
  • Western Armenian: “Փենսիլվանիա”
  • Western Frisian: “Gemenebest fan Pennsylvania”
  • Western Frisian: “Pennsylvania, Feriene Steaten”
  • Western Frisian: “Pennsylvania”
  • Western Frisian: “Steat Pennsylvania”
  • Western Mari: “Пенсильвани”
  • Western Panjabi: “پنسلوانیا”
  • Wu Chinese: “宾夕法尼亚”
  • Wu Chinese: “宾夕法尼亚州”
  • Yakut: “Пеннсүлваниа”
  • Yiddish: “פענסילוועניע”
  • Yoruba: “Pennsylvania”
  • Yue Chinese: “賓夕凡尼亞州”
  • Zeeuws: “Pennsylvania”
  • Zhuang: “Pennsylvania”
  • Zulu: “Pennsylvania”
  • “ma Pensiwenja”
  • “Pennsylvania”
  • “Pensilvanėjė”
  • “पेंसिल्वेनिया”

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