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Swarthmore

Swarthmore is a borough in , United States. Swarthmore was originally named Westdale in honor of painter Benjamin West, who was one of the early residents of the town.
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  • Type: Town with 6,150 residents
  • Description: borough of Pennsylvania, United States
  • Also known as: “Swarthmore Boro”, “Swarthmore, PA”, and “Swarthmore, Pennsylvania”
  • Postal code: 19081

Places of Interest

Highlights include Wallingford station and Swarthmore station.

Railway station
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is a SEPTA Regional Rail station in . Located at Kershaw Road and Possum Hollow Road, it serves the Media/Wawa Line.

Railway station
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is a SEPTA Regional Rail station in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. Located on Chester Road between downtown Swarthmore and Swarthmore College, it serves the Media/Wawa Line.

Railway station
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, also known as Morton–Rutledge station, is a SEPTA Regional Rail station in . Located at Yale and Morton Avenues, it serves the Media/Wawa Line.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Rose Valley and Delaware Valley.

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is a small, historic borough in , United States. Its area is 0.73 square miles of land around the former textile mill.

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The is a region in eastern and the surrounding states of , , and that surrounds the metropolitan area.

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is a borough in and the county seat of , United States. It is located about 13 miles west of . It is part of the Delaware Valley, also known as the Philadelphia metropolitan area.

Swarthmore

Latitude
39.9021° or 39° 54′ 7″ north
Longitude
-75.3499° or 75° 20′ 60″ west
Population
6,150
Elevation
128 feet (39 metres)
Open location code
87F6WM22+R2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158473993
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
4561628
Wiki­data ID
Q1182014
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Swarthmore” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “سوارثمور”
  • Basque: “Swarthmore”
  • Catalan: “Swarthmore”
  • Cebuano: “Swarthmore”
  • Chechen: “Свортмор”
  • Chinese: “Swarthmore”
  • Chinese: “斯沃斯莫尔”
  • Czech: “Swarthmore”
  • Dutch: “Swarthmore”
  • Esperanto: “Swarthmore”
  • French: “Swarthmore”
  • German: “Swarthmore”
  • Gilaki: “سۊارث‌مؤر (پنسيلوانيا)”
  • Gilaki: “سۊارث‌مؤر”
  • Haitian: “Swarthmore, Pennsilvani”
  • Haitian: “Swarthmore”
  • Hebrew: “סווארת’מור”
  • Italian: “Swarthmore”
  • Japanese: “スワースモア”
  • Ladin: “Swarthmore”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Swarthmore”
  • Portuguese: “Swarthmore”
  • Russian: “Суортмор”
  • Serbian: “Свортмор”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Swarthmore, Pennsylvania”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Swarthmore”
  • Slovak: “Swarthmore”
  • Slovenian: “Swarthmore”
  • Spanish: “Swarthmore (Pensilvania)”
  • Spanish: “Swarthmore”
  • Swedish: “Swarthmore”
  • Tatar: “Свортмор”
  • Ukrainian: “Свортмор”
  • Uzbek: “Swarthmore”
  • Uzbek: “Сwартҳморе”
  • Vietnamese: “Swarthmore, Pennsylvania”
  • Vietnamese: “Swarthmore”
  • Volapük: “Swarthmore”
  • Welsh: “Swarthmore”
  • “Swarthmore”

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