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Pennsylvania (state) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 40 50 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 40.8333 decimal degrees |
| Long: 076 00 00 W degrees minutes |
Long: -76.0000 decimal degrees |
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Note: Occupied mainly by Algonquian, with Iroquoian-speakers in E, when English, Dutch and Swedes settled here 17th cen.; haven for religious dissenters founded by W Penn in 1682; suffered battles in French and Indian wars; was strongly pro-Revolution and pro-Union. |
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| Pennsylvania (preferred,C,V,English-P)
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............ | "Penn's woods" in Latin, reputedly named by Charles II of England for father of William Penn, to whom he granted land in 1681 |
| PA (C,V,USPS)
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| פנסילבניה (C,U,Hebrew )
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| Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (C,U,English)
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| Keystone State (C,U,English)
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| Penekelewinia (C,U,Hawaiian)
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| Pennsilfaani (C,U,Pennsylvania German)
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| Pennsilvania (C,U,Aragonese)
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| Pennsilvania (Latin)
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| Pennsilvania (Ladino)
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| Pennsilvània (C,U,Catalan)
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| Pennsilvània (Occitan)
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| Pennsilvanië (C,U,Afrikaans)
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| Pennsilvaniya (C,U,Uzbek)
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| Pennsylvani (C,U,Cornish)
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| Pennsylvanía (C,U,Icelandic)
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| Pennsylvānia (C,U,Anglo-Saxon)
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| Pennsylvania suyu (C,U,Ayamará)
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| Pennsylvania suyu (Quechuan)
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| Pennsylvanie (C,U,French)
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| Pennsylvanie (Scots)
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| Pennsylvannia (C,U,Ligurian)
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| Pensėlvanėjė (C,U,Samogitian)
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| Pènsilvani (C,U,Haitian (Haitian Creole))
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| Pensilvania (C,U,Spanish)
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| Pensilvania (Guarani)
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| Pensilvania (Galician)
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| Pensilvania (Interlingue)
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| Pensilvânia (C,U,Portuguese)
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| Pensílvéníyạ (C,U,Igbo)
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| Pénsilwaniye Shitati (C,U,Uyghur)
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| Pénsówéíniyah Hahoodzo (C,U,Navajo)
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| ཕེན་སུལ་ཝེ་ནའི་ཡ། (C,U,Tibetan)
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| 宾夕法尼亚 (C,U,Chinese, Wu)
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| پئنسیلڤانیا (C,U,Northern Luri)
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| पेन्सिल्वेनिया (C,U,Sanskrit)
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| Пенсилванија (C,U,Serbian)
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| Пенсилвания (C,U,Bulgarian)
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| Փենսիլվանիա (C,U,Armenian)
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| Пеннсилвани (C,U,Mongolian)
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| پنسیلوانیا (C,U,Mazanderani)
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| پنسیلوانیا (Persian-Farsi)
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| Πενσυλβάνια (C,U,Greek)
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| Пенсильвани (Chuvash)
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| Пенсильвани (Ossetian/Ossetic)
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| Пенсильвани (Russia Buriat)
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| پنسیلوانیا ایالتی (C,U,Azerbaijani, South)
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| ܦܢܣܝܠܒܐܢܝܐ (C,U,Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE))
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| পেন্সিল্ভেনিয়া (C,U,Bengali)
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| ፔንስልቬኒያ (C,U,Amharic)
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| Пенсилвайни (C,U,Kalmyk)
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| पेन्सिलभेनिया (C,U,Nepali)
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| 宾夕法尼亚州 (C,U,Chinese)
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| Пенсильванія (C,U,Ukrainian)
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| პენსილვანია (C,U,Georgian)
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| รัฐเพนซิลเวเนีย (C,U,Thai)
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| ပင်ဆယ်ဗေးနီးယားပြည်နယ် (C,U,Burmese)
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| بنسيلفانيا (C,U,Arabic)
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| بنسيلفانيا (Arabic, Egyptian)
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| پێنسیلڤانیا (C,U,Central Kurdish)
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| पेन्सिलवेनिया (C,U,Hindi)
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| ペンシルベニア州 (C,U,Japanese)
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| Пеннсүлваниа (C,U,Yakut)
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| פענסילוועניע (C,U,Yiddish)
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| पेन्सिल्भेनिया (C,U,Pali)
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| പെൻസിൽവാനിയ (C,U,Malayalam)
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| Садружнасць Пенсільванія (C,U,Belarusian)
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| पेनसिल्व्हेनिया (C,U,Marathi)
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| 賓夕凡尼亞州 (C,U,Chinese, Yue)
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| Пенсильваний (C,U)
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| 펜실베이니아 주 (C,U,Korean)
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| ਪੈੱਨਸਿਲਵੇਨੀਆ (C,U,Panjabi, Eastern)
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| state (preferred, B) |
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since December 12, 1787 |
| first level subdivision (C) |
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Related geographic places: |
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| capital is .... |
Harrisburg .......... (inhabited place) |
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(World, North and Central America, United States, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia county) [2378355] |
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Sources and Contributors: |
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| Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.......... |
[VP] |
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GeoNames online [n.d.] 6254927 |
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