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Pennsylvania ( / ˌpɛnsɪlˈveɪniə / ⓘ PEN-sil-VAY-nee-ə, lit.'Penn's forest country' ), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania[ b ] ( Pennsylvania Dutch: Pennsylvanie ), [ 7 ] is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States.
The Pennsylvania State Capitol. The Pennsylvania General Assembly is the bicameral state legislature composed of 253 members: the House of Representatives with 203 members, [4] and the Senate with 50 members. [5] The Speaker of the House of Representatives or their designated speaker pro tempore holds sessions of the House. The President of the ...
The U.S. state of Pennsylvania has 21 official emblems, as designated by the Pennsylvania General Assembly and signed into law by the Governor of Pennsylvania. State symbols [ edit ]
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.
History of Pennsylvania. The Birth of Pennsylvania, a portrait of William Penn (standing with document in hand), who founded the Province of Pennsylvania in 1681 as a refuge for Quakers after receiving a royal deed to it from King Charles II. The history of Pennsylvania stems back thousands of years when the first indigenous peoples occupied ...
There are currently 956 municipalities classified as boroughs and one classified as a town in Pennsylvania. Unlike other forms of municipalities in Pennsylvania, boroughs and towns are not classified according to population. Boroughs designated in the table below with a dagger (†) are home rule municipalities and are also found in the List of ...
Pennsylvania State University was founded in 1855 when James Irvin, a U.S. Congressman from Bellefonte, donated 200 acres (0.8 km 2) of land in Centre County [17] to the newly-established Farmers High School of Pennsylvania, representing the first of 10,101 acres (41 km 2) the school eventually acquired.
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 ] Pennsylvania is divided into 67 counties and contains 2,560 municipalities. Under Pennsylvania law, there are four types of incorporated ...