Pittsburgh

The pleasure of Pittsburgh 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.
pittsburghpa.gov
Wikivoyage
Wikipedia
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0.
Photo: Robpinion, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Oakland and Downtown Pittsburgh.

Photo: ScottRobertAnselmo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a bustling college neighborhood on the eastern side of Pittsburgh, home to Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh. The surrounding area is made up of several distinct neighborhoods, including the pleasant districts of Squirrel Hill and Shadyside.

Photo: Chris connelly, CC BY 2.0.
is the main business district and urban center of life in the city. Constrained by the Allegheny River on the north and the Monongahela River on the south, which join to form the Ohio River at what is known as the "Point", Downtown has been forced to grow upwards.

Photo: Derek.cashman, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is the southern region of Pittsburgh, south of the Monongahela and Ohio Rivers. While this article covers the entire southern region of the city, "South Side" usually refers to a popular neighborhood directly across the Monongahela River from .

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Strip District-Lawrenceville and North Side.

Photo: Daderot, Public domain.
The Strip District and Lawrenceville are two prominent neighborhoods on the eastern side of Pittsburgh, in an area with many former industrial and warehouse districts where many immigrant workers lived.

Photo: Bgag, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is an area of Pittsburgh, just across the Allegheny River from . In years past it was the independent city of Allegheny, but has long been incorporated into the City of Pittsburgh itself.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Acrisure Stadium and PPG Paints Arena.

Stadium
Photo: Fo2grfr, CC BY-SA 4.0.
, formerly known as Heinz Field, is a located in the neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. It primarily serves as the home of the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League and the Pittsburgh Panthers of the National Collegiate Athletic Association.

Stadium
Photo: Jleedev, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a multi-purpose indoor arena in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, that serves as the home of the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League.

Stadium
Photo: alpineinc, CC BY 2.0.
is a baseball on the of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is the fifth location to serve as the home ballpark of Major League Baseball's Pittsburgh Pirates.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Green Tree and Uptown Pittsburgh.

Photo: Generic1139, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a borough of , near Pittsburgh. It is located along I-376, between Pittsburgh to the east and and the Pittsburgh International Airport to the west.

Neighborhood
Photo: Ronjamin, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Uptown is a neighborhood in the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, southeast of the city's Central Business District. It is bordered on the north by the Hill District and lies across the Monongahela River from .

Village
Photo: Cbaile19, CC0.
is a borough in , United States. The population was 3,394 at the 2020 census. It is a largely residential area situated atop a crest about 3 miles west of the Monongahela River.

Pittsburgh

Latitude
40.4407° or 40° 26′ 27″ north
Longitude
-80.0026° or 80° 0′ 9″ west
Population
408,000
Elevation
764 feet (233 metres)
IATA airport code
PIT
United Nations Location Code
US PIT
Open location code
86GXCXRW+7X
Open­Street­Map ID
node 34184938
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
5206379
Wiki­data ID
Q1342
This page is based on OpenStreetMap, GeoNames, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikivoyage.
We’d love your help improving our open data sources. Thank you for contributing.

Satellite Map

Discover Pittsburgh from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
© Stadia Maps, Airbus DS, CNES, PlanetObserver, and Copernicus

In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Pittsburgh” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Pittsburgh”
  • Amharic: “ፕትስበርግ”
  • Arabic: “بيتسبرغ”
  • Armenian: “Փիթսբուրգ”
  • Asturian: “Pittsburgh”
  • Azerbaijani: “Pitsburq”
  • Azerbaijani: “Pittsburq”
  • Balinese: “Pittsburgh”
  • Bambara: “Pittsburgh”
  • Basque: “Pittsburgh”
  • Belarusian: “Пітсбург”
  • Bengali: “পিটসবার্গ”
  • Bengali: “পিট্‌সবার্গ”
  • Bengali: “পিট্সবার্গ”
  • Bosnian: “Pittsburgh”
  • Breton: “Pittsburgh”
  • Bulgarian: “Питсбърг”
  • Catalan: “Pittsburgh”
  • Cebuano: “Pittsburgh”
  • Central Kurdish: “پیتسبێرگ”
  • Chamorro: “Pittsburgh”
  • Chechen: “Питтсбург”
  • Chinese: “Pittsburgh”
  • Chinese: “匹兹堡”
  • Chinese: “匹兹堡市”
  • Chinese: “匹茲堡”
  • Chinese: “匹茲堡市”
  • Chuvash: “Питтсбург”
  • Cornish: “Pittsburgh, Pennsylvani”
  • Cornish: “Pittsburgh”
  • Corsican: “Pittsburgh”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Pittsburg”
  • Croatian: “Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania”
  • Croatian: “Pittsburgh”
  • Czech: “Pittsburgh”
  • Danish: “Pittsburgh”
  • Dutch: “Pittsburgh”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “پيتسبرج”
  • Esperanto: “Picburgo”
  • Esperanto: “Pitsburgo”
  • Esperanto: “Pittsburgh”
  • Estonian: “Pittsburgh”
  • Faroese: “Pittsburgh”
  • Finnish: “Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania”
  • Finnish: “Pittsburgh”
  • French: “Pittsburgh”
  • Galician: “Pittsburgh, Pensilvania”
  • Galician: “Pittsburgh”
  • Georgian: “პიტსბურგი”
  • German: “Pittsburgh”
  • Gilaki: “پيتسبرگ (پنسيلوانيا)”
  • Gilaki: “پيتسبرگ”
  • Greek: “Πίτσμπεργκ, Πενσυλβάνια”
  • Greek: “Πίτσμπεργκ”
  • Greek: “Πίτσμπουργκ, Πενσυλβάνια”
  • Greek: “Πίτσμπουργκ”
  • Greek: “Πόλη του Χάλυβα”
  • Gujarati: “પિટ્સબર્ગ”
  • Haitian: “Pittsburgh, Pennsilvani”
  • Haitian: “Pittsburgh”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Pittsburgh”
  • Hebrew: “פיטסבורג”
  • Hindi: “पिट्सबर्ग, पेन्सिलवेनिया”
  • Hindi: “पिट्सबर्ग”
  • Hungarian: “Pittsburgh”
  • Icelandic: “Pittsburgh”
  • Ido: “Pittsburgh”
  • Iloko: “Pittsburgh”
  • Indonesian: “Kota Baja”
  • Indonesian: “Kota berasap”
  • Indonesian: “Kota Besi”
  • Indonesian: “Pgh”
  • Indonesian: “Pittsburgh, PA”
  • Indonesian: “Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania”
  • Indonesian: “Pittsburgh”
  • Interlingua: “Pittsburgh”
  • Irish: “Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania”
  • Irish: “Pittsburgh”
  • Italian: “Pittsburgh”
  • Japanese: “ピッツバーグ”
  • Kannada: “ಪಿಟ್ಸ್‌ಬರ್ಗ್”
  • Kazakh: “Питтсбург”
  • Kikuyu: “Pittsburgh”
  • Kirghiz: “Питсбург”
  • Korean: “피츠버그”
  • Kurdish: “Pittsburgh”
  • Ladin: “Pittsburgh”
  • Latin: “Pittsburgum”
  • Latvian: “Pitsburga”
  • Limburgan: “Pittsburgh”
  • Lithuanian: “Pitsbergas”
  • Lithuanian: “Pitsburgas”
  • Lombard: “Pittsburgh”
  • Luxembourgish: “Pittsburgh”
  • Macedonian: “Питсбург”
  • Malagasy: “Pittsburgh”
  • Malay: “Pittsburgh”
  • Maltese: “Pittsburgh”
  • Marathi: “पिट्सबर्ग”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Pittsburgh”
  • Mongolian: “Питтсбург”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “پيترسبيرڭ”
  • Navajo: “Naʼníʼá Halání”
  • Northern Frisian: “Pittsburgh”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Pittsburgh”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pittsburgh”
  • Norwegian: “Pittsburgh”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Pitsborg”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Pittsburgh”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Pyttesburh”
  • Ossetian: “Питтсбург”
  • Panjabi: “ਪਿਟਸਬਰਗ”
  • Panjabi: “ਪੀਟਸਬਰਗ”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Pittsbarig, PA”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Pittsbarig, Pennsilfaani”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Pittsbarig”
  • Persian: “پیتسبرگ، پنسیلوانیا”
  • Persian: “پیتسبرگ”
  • Persian: “پیتسبورگ”
  • Piemontese: “Pittsburgh”
  • Polish: “Pittsburgh”
  • Portuguese: “Pitsburgo”
  • Portuguese: “Pittsburgh”
  • Romanian: “Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania”
  • Romanian: “Pittsburgh”
  • Russian: “Питсбург”
  • Russian: “Питтсбург”
  • Rusyn: “Питтсбург”
  • Santali: “ᱯᱤᱴᱥᱵᱚᱨᱜᱽ,ᱯᱮᱱᱥᱤᱞᱵᱷᱟᱱᱤᱭᱟ”
  • Sardinian: “Pittsburgh”
  • Scots: “Pittsburgh”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Pittsburgh”
  • Serbian: “Питсбург”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Pittsburgh”
  • Sicilian: “Pittsburgh”
  • Silesian: “Pittsburgh”
  • Sinhala: “පිට්ස්බර්ග්”
  • Slovak: “Pittsburgh”
  • Slovenian: “Pittsburgh”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پیتسبورگ”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad de Hierro”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad de los Puentes”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad del Acero”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad humeante”
  • Spanish: “Pittsburg”
  • Spanish: “Pittsburgh (Pensilvania)”
  • Spanish: “Pittsburgh”
  • Swahili: “Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania”
  • Swahili: “Pittsburgh”
  • Swedish: “Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania”
  • Swedish: “Pittsburgh, Pennsylvanien”
  • Swedish: “Pittsburgh”
  • Tagalog: “Pittsburgh”
  • Tamil: “பிட்ஸ்பர்க், பென்சில்வேனியா”
  • Tamil: “பிட்ஸ்பர்க்”
  • Tatar: “Питтсбург”
  • Telugu: “పిట్స్బర్గ్”
  • Telugu: “పిట్స్‌బర్గ్”
  • Thai: “พิตต์สเบิร์ก”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Pittsburgh”
  • Turkish: “Pittsburgh”
  • Twi: “Pittsburgh”
  • Ukrainian: “Піттсбург”
  • Ukrainian: “Піттсбурґ”
  • Ukrainian: “Піцбурґ”
  • Urdu: “پٹسبرگ”
  • Uzbek: “Pitsburg”
  • Venetian: “Pittsburgh”
  • Veps: “Pittsburg”
  • Vietnamese: “Pittsburgh”
  • Vlax Romani: “Pittsburgh”
  • Volapük: “Pittsburgh”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Pittsburgh”
  • Welsh: “Pittsburgh”
  • Western Armenian: “Փիթսպուրկ”
  • Western Frisian: “Pittsburgh”
  • Western Panjabi: “پٹس برگ”
  • Wu Chinese: “匹兹堡”
  • Yakut: “Питтсбург”
  • Yiddish: “פיטסבורג”
  • Yoruba: “Pittsburgh”
  • Yue Chinese: “匹茲堡”
  • “ma tomo Pipe”
  • “Pittsburgh”

Allegheny County: Must-Visit Destinations

Delve into Sewickley, Franklin Park, West Mifflin, and Coraopolis.

Explore These Curated Destinations

Discover places selected for their distinct character and enduring appeal.