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Pennsylvania (/ ˌ p ɛ n s ɪ l ˈ v eɪ n i ə / ⓘ, lit. ' Penn's forest country '), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania Dutch: Pennsylvanie), is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States.
Pennsylvania's nickname, the Keystone State, derives from the fact that the state forms a geographic bridge both between the Northeastern United States and the Southern United States between the Atlantic seaboard and Midwest. The state's western toehold extends to the Great Lakes at Erie.
There are 56 municipalities classified as cities in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Each city is further classified based on population, with Philadelphia being of the first class, Pittsburgh of the second class, Allentown of the second class A, and the remaining 53 cities being of the third class.
Cumberland Valley is a geographic region that lies between South Mountain and Blue Ridge Mountains of Central Pennsylvania and Western Maryland. Consisting of the following counties: Cumberland; Franklin; Western Pennsylvania
Because its boundaries included it in the vast domain which Penn ac-quired from the English king, historians have failed to see how different it was from the rest of the state. Western Pennsylvania has been slighted in the histories of the Amer-ican people.
Explore Western Pennsylvania holidays and discover the best time and places to visit.
Category:Western Pennsylvania - Wikimedia Commons. Help. Category:Western Pennsylvania. From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. English: This category includes places connected to the Western Pennsylvania, which includes the Pittsburgh metropolitan area, Erie, Altoona, and Johnstown.
