Scranton

Scranton is a city in . It is near , and is the seventh most populous city in the state. Today, it is perhaps best known as the setting of the hit TV show "The Office" and the birthplace of Joe Biden, the 46th President of the United States.
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  • Type: City with 72,900 residents
  • Description: city in and county seat of Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, United States
  • Also known as: “Capouse”, “Cathair Leictreach”, “Deep Hollow”, “Electric City”, “Elektra-Urbo”, “Elektrische Stadt”, “Harrison”, “La ciudad eléctrica”, “Miasto elektryczne”, “Miasto Scranton”, “Scranton (Pennsilvània)”, “Scranton (Pennsylvania)”, “Scranton (Pensilvania)”, “Scranton, PA”, “Scranton, Pennsilvània”, “Scranton, Pennsylvania”, “Scranton, Pennsylvanie”, “Scranton, Pensilvanija”, “Scranton, Pensylwania”, “Scranton, Vereinigte Staaten”, “Skrantono, Pensilvanio”, “Slocum Hollow”, “Stadt Scranton”, “Steamtown”, “Ville de Scranton”, “Ville électrique”, “Скрантан (Пенсільванія)”, “스크랜턴시”, “펜실베니아주 스크랜턴”, “펜실베니아주 스크랜턴시”, “スクラントン (ペンシルヴェニア州)”, “スクラントン (ペンシルベニア州)”, “スクラントン市”, “ペンシルベニア州スクラントン”, “ペンシルベニア州スクラントン市”, “史卡蘭頓”, and “電気の街”
  • Postal codes: 18501-18505, 18508-18510, 18512, 18515, 18540, and 18577
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights: Scranton Cultural Center and Albright Memorial Building.

Theater building
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The at the Masonic Temple is a theatre and cultural center in Scranton, Pennsylvania. The Cultural Center's mission statement is "to rejuvenate a national architectural structure as a regional center for arts, education and community…

Library
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The Albright Memorial Library, also commonly referred to as the Scranton Public Library, is a historic public library located in Scranton, , .

Town hall
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is located at Washington and Mulberry streets in the downtown section of Scranton in the U.S. state of . It is a three-story limestone ashlar Victorian Gothic Revival building with sandstone trim, designed by architects Edwin L.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Dunmore.

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is a borough in , United States, adjoining Scranton. It is part of and was settled in 1835 and incorporated in 1862.

Scranton

Latitude
41.4087° or 41° 24′ 31″ north
Longitude
-75.6621° or 75° 39′ 44″ west
Population
72,900
Elevation
755 feet (230 metres)
IATA airport code
AVP
UN/LOCODE
US SCR
Open location code
87H6C85Q+F4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 157605891
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
5211303
Wiki­data ID
Q271395
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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Yue Chinese—“Scranton” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ስክራንቶን”
  • Arabic: “سكرانتون”
  • Armenian: “Սքրենթոն”
  • Azerbaijani: “Skranton”
  • Bashkir: “Скрантон”
  • Basque: “Scranton”
  • Belarusian: “Скрантан”
  • Belarusian: “Скрэнтан”
  • Bengali: “স্ক্র্যান্টন”
  • Bosnian: “Scranton”
  • Breton: “Scranton”
  • Bulgarian: “Скрантън”
  • Catalan: “Scranton”
  • Cebuano: “Scranton, Pennsylvania”
  • Cebuano: “Scranton”
  • Central Kurdish: “سکرانتن، پەنسلڤەینیا”
  • Chamorro: “Scranton”
  • Chechen: “Скрентон”
  • Chinese: “史格蘭頓”
  • Chinese: “斯克兰顿”
  • Chinese: “斯克蘭頓”
  • Chuvash: “Скрантон”
  • Cornish: “Scranton, Pennsylvani”
  • Cornish: “Scranton”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Skranton”
  • Czech: “Scranton”
  • Dagbani: “Scranton”
  • Danish: “Scranton”
  • Dutch: “Scranton”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سكرانتون”
  • Esperanto: “Scranton”
  • Esperanto: “Skrantono”
  • Estonian: “Scranton”
  • Finnish: “Scranton”
  • French: “Scranton”
  • Galician: “Scranton”
  • German: “Scranton”
  • Gilaki: “اسکرانتن (پنسيلوانيا)”
  • Gilaki: “اسکرانتن”
  • Greek: “Σκράντον”
  • Gujarati: “સ્ક્રેંટન”
  • Haitian: “Scranton, Pennsilvani”
  • Haitian: “Scranton”
  • Hebrew: “סקרנטון”
  • Hindi: “स्क्रैंटन”
  • Hindi: “स्क्रैन्टन”
  • Hungarian: “Scranton”
  • Indonesian: “Scranton”
  • Interlingua: “Scranton”
  • Irish: “Scranton, Pennsylvania”
  • Irish: “Scranton”
  • Italian: “Scranton”
  • Japanese: “スクラントン”
  • Kannada: “ಸ್ಕ್ರಾಂಟನ್”
  • Korean: “스크랜턴”
  • Ladin: “Scranton”
  • Latin: “Scrantonia”
  • Latvian: “Skrantona”
  • Latvian: “Skrentona”
  • Lithuanian: “Skrantonas”
  • Malagasy: “Scranton, Pennsylvania”
  • Malagasy: “Scranton”
  • Malay: “Scranton, Pennsylvania”
  • Malay: “Scranton”
  • Marathi: “स्क्रँटन”
  • Marathi: “स्क्रॅंटन”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Scranton”
  • Moksha: “Скрэнтон”
  • Northern Frisian: “Scranton”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Scranton”
  • Norwegian: “Scranton”
  • Ossetian: “Скрантон”
  • Persian: “اسکرانتون، پنسیلوانیا”
  • Persian: “اسکرانتون”
  • Piemontese: “Scranton”
  • Polish: “Scranton”
  • Portuguese: “Scranton”
  • Romanian: “Scranton, Pennsylvania”
  • Romanian: “Scranton”
  • Russian: “Скрантон”
  • Rusyn: “Скрентон (Пенсілванія)”
  • Rusyn: “Скрентон”
  • Scots: “Scranton”
  • Serbian: “Скрантон”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Scranton, Pennsylvania”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Scranton”
  • Silesian: “Scranton”
  • Sinhala: “ස්ක්‍රැන්ටන්”
  • Slovak: “Scranton”
  • Slovenian: “Scranton”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اسکرانتون، پنسیلوانیا”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ایسکرانتون، پنسیلوانیا”
  • Spanish: “Scranton”
  • Swahili: “Scranton, Pennsylvania”
  • Swahili: “Scranton”
  • Swedish: “Scranton”
  • Tagalog: “Scranton, Pennsylvania”
  • Tagalog: “Scranton”
  • Tajik: “Скрентон”
  • Tamil: “சுகிரன்டன்”
  • Tatar: “Скрентон”
  • Telugu: “స్క్రాన్తన్”
  • Thai: “สแครนตัน”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Scranton”
  • Turkish: “Scranton, Pensilvanya”
  • Turkish: “Scranton”
  • Ukrainian: “Скрентон”
  • Urdu: “سکرانٹن، پنسلوانیا”
  • Urdu: “سکرانٹن”
  • Uzbek: “Scranton”
  • Vietnamese: “Scranton, Pennsylvania”
  • Vietnamese: “Scranton”
  • Volapük: “Scranton”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Scranton, Pennsylvania”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Scranton”
  • Welsh: “Scranton, Pennsylvania”
  • Welsh: “Scranton”
  • Western Panjabi: “سکرانٹن”
  • Wu Chinese: “斯克兰顿 (宾夕法尼亚州)”
  • Wu Chinese: “斯克兰顿（宾夕法尼亚州）”
  • Yakut: “Скрантон”
  • Yiddish: “סקרענטאן”
  • Yue Chinese: “斯克蘭頓”
  • “Scranton”

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