Shamokin
Shamokin is a city in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, United States. Surrounded by Coal Township at the western edge of the Anthracite Coal Region in central Pennsylvania's Susquehanna River Valley, the city was named after a Saponi Indian village, Schahamokink.
- Type: Town with 7,470 residents
- Description: city in southeastern Northumberland County, Pennsylvania
- Also known as: “Coal”, “Schahamokink”, “Shamokin, PA”, and “Shamokin, Pennsylvania”
- Postal code: 17872
Places of Interest
Highlights: State Correctional Institution – Coal Township and Shamokin Area High School.
State Correctional Institution – Coal Township
Prison
The State Correctional Institution – Coal Township…
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ranshaw and Bear Valley.
Ranshaw
Hamlet
Shamokin
- Categories: city of Pennsylvania and locality
- Location: Northumberland, Alleghenies and Susquehanna Valley, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
40.7888° or 40° 47′ 20″ north
Longitude
-76.5585° or 76° 33′ 31″ west
Population
7,470
Elevation
722 feet (220 metres)
UN/LOCODE
US YSH
Open location code
87G5QCQR+GH
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Shamokin” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “شاموكين”
- Basque: “Shamokin”
- Catalan: “Shamokin”
- Cebuano: “Shamokin”
- Chechen: “Шемокин”
- Chinese: “沙莫金”
- Czech: “Shamokin”
- Dagbani: “Shamokin”
- Dutch: “Shamokin”
- French: “Shamokin”
- German: “Shamokin”
- Gilaki: “شاموکین (پنسيلوانيا)”
- Gilaki: “شاموکین”
- Haitian: “Shamokin, Pennsilvani”
- Haitian: “Shamokin”
- Irish: “Shamokin”
- Italian: “Shamokin”
- Japanese: “シャモキン”
- Korean: “샤모킨”
- Ladin: “Shamokin”
- Lithuanian: “Šamokinas”
- Malagasy: “Shamokin, Pennsylvania”
- Malagasy: “Shamokin”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Shamokin”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Shamokin (Pennsylvania)”
- Norwegian: “Shamokin”
- Persian: “شاموکین، پنسیلوانیا”
- Persian: “شاموکین”
- Polish: “Shamokin”
- Portuguese: “Shamokin”
- Russian: “Шамокин”
- Serbian: “Шамокин”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Shamokin, Pennsylvania”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Shamokin”
- Slovak: “Shamokin”
- South Azerbaijani: “شاموکین، پنسیلوانیا”
- Spanish: “Shamokin”
- Tatar: “Шемокин”
- Turkish: “Shamokin, Pensilvanya”
- Turkish: “Shamokin”
- Ukrainian: “Шемокін”
- Urdu: “شاموکن، پنسلوانیا”
- Uzbek: “Shamokin”
- Vietnamese: “Shamokin, Pennsylvania”
- Vietnamese: “Shamokin”
- Volapük: “Shamokin”
- Waray (Philippines): “Shamokin, Pennsylvania”
- Waray (Philippines): “Shamokin”
- Welsh: “Shamokin, Pennsylvania”
- Welsh: “Shamokin”
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