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The following is a list of the 67 counties of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.The city of Philadelphia is coterminous with Philadelphia County, the municipalities having been consolidated in 1854, and all remaining county government functions having been merged into the city after a 1951 referendum.
The Jacksonian Heritage: Pennsylvania Politics, 1833–1848 (1958) Tinkcom, Harry Marlin. The Republicans and Federalists in Pennsylvania, 1790–1801: A Study in National Stimulus and Local Response (1950) Warner, Sam Bass. The Private City: Philadelphia in Three Periods of its Growth (1968) Wood, Ralph. et al. The Pennsylvania Germans (1942 ...
Map of the United States with Pennsylvania highlighted. There are 56 municipalities classified as cities in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. [1] Each city is further classified based on population, with Philadelphia being of the first class, Pittsburgh of the second class, Scranton of the second class A, and the remaining 53 cities being of the third class.
Map of the United States with Pennsylvania highlighted in red. Pennsylvania is a state located in the Northeastern United States.As of the 2020 U.S. census, Pennsylvania is the fifth-most populous state with 13,002,700 inhabitants [1] and the 32nd-largest by land area spanning 44,742.70 square miles (115,883.1 km 2) of land. [2]
A map of Pennsylvania and the competing land claims during the colonial era A map of Pennsylvania counties in 1836; at the time, Lackawanna and Wyoming were still part of Luzerne County. The name Wyoming derives from the Lenape Munsee name xwéːwamənk, meaning "at the big river flat." [4]
Broome and Tioga counties weren't on the map when the United States of America was born. Here's how they evolved. Spanning Time: How Broome, Tioga counties emerged from New York's first county maps
The next acquisitions by Pennsylvania were to take place as an independent commonwealth or state and no longer as a colony. The Assembly established additional counties from the land before the War for American Independence. These counties were Bedford (1771), Northumberland (1772) and Westmoreland (1773). [6]
Map of Fayette County, Pennsylvania with Municipal Labels showing Cities and Boroughs (red), Townships (white), and Census-designated places (blue). Under Pennsylvania law, there are four types of incorporated municipalities: cities, boroughs, townships, and, in at most two cases, towns. The following cities, boroughs and townships are located ...