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- Ephrata
- Lancaster
- York
- Harrisburg
- Carlisle
- Gettysburg
- Lebanon
- Hershey
- State College
- Pittsburgh
Ephrata
Ephrata is a borough in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 13,394 at the 2010 census. Ephrata is located in northwestern Lancaster County, along U.S. Route 322, west of Lancaster.
Lancaster
Lancaster is a city located in South Central Pennsylvania that serves as the county seat of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States. With a population of 59,322, it ranks eighth in population among Pennsylvania’s cities.
York
York is a city located in York County, Pennsylvania, the United States, which is in the South Central region of the state. The population within the city limits was 43,718 at the 2010 census, which was a 7.0% increase from the 2000 count of 40,862. When combined with the adjacent boroughs of West York and North York and surrounding Spring Garden, West Manchester, and North Codorus townships, the population of Greater York was 108,386.
Harrisburg
The City of Harrisburg is the capital of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the United States and the county seat of Dauphin County. With a population of 49,192, it is the 15th largest city in the Commonwealth. Harrisburg is the anchor of the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Metropolitan Statistical Area, which had a 2010 estimated population of 558,945, making it the fourth largest in the state. Harrisburg sits atop the Susquehanna River in the Susquehanna River Valley.
Carlisle
Carlisle is a borough in the county seat of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, United States. The name is pronounced as in British English with emphasis on the second syllable /kɑːrˈlaɪl/.
Gettysburg
Gettysburg is a borough and the county seat of Adams County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. The Battle of Gettysburg (July 1–3, 1863) and President Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address are named for this town. The town hosts visitors to the Gettysburg National Battlefield in the Gettysburg National Military Park. As of the 2010 census, the borough had a population of 7,620 people.
Lebanon
Lebanon is a city in and the county seat of Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 25,477 at the 2010 census, a 4.2% increase from the 2000 census. Located in the central part of the Lebanon Valley, Lebanon is the largest city in the county and is the principal city of the Lebanon, PA Metropolitan Statistical Area and one of the four principal cities of the Harrisburg-Carlisle-Lebanon, PA Combined Statistical Area. Lebanon was founded by a group of Swiss and German settlers in 1740 and was originally named Steitzburg.
Hershey
Hershey is a town in Derry Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States. Hershey’s chocolates are made in Hershey, which was founded by candy magnate Milton S. Hershey in 1894. The town is located 14 miles (23 km) east of Harrisburg and is part of the Harrisburg−Carlisle Metropolitan Statistical Area. Hershey has no legal status as an incorporated municipality but operates under the rules of a council-manager government.
State College
State College is a home rule municipality in Centre County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. It is the largest designated borough in Pennsylvania. It is the principal borough of the six municipalities that make up the State College Metropolitan Statistical Area, the largest settlement in Centre County, and one of the principal cities of the greater State College-DuBois Combined Statistical Area with a combined population of 235,269. In the 2010 census, the borough population was 42,034 with approximately 105,000 living in the borough plus the surrounding townships often referred to locally as the “Centre Region.” Many of these Centre Region communities also carry a “State College, PA” address although are not part of the borough of State College. State College is a college town, dominated economically and demographically by the presence of the University Park campus of the Pennsylvania State University (Penn State).
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh is a city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the United States and is the county seat of Allegheny County. A population of about 302,407 residents lives within the city limits as of 2017, making it the 63rd-largest city in the U.S. and the second-most populous city in Pennsylvania, after Philadelphia. The metropolitan population of 2,353,045 is the largest in both the Ohio Valley and Appalachia, the second-largest in Pennsylvania (after Philadelphia), and the 26th-largest in the U.S.
