The Lehigh Valley is named for the Lehigh River, which flows through it. The region includes Allentown, the third most populated city in Pennsylvania, the neighboring eastern Pennsylvania cities of Bethlehem and Easton, and its more rural suburbs. The region was once a hub for American heavy manufacturing. Its economy is now more diverse, and it is one of the state's fastest growing regions. Consisting of the following counties:
The Pennsylvania Piedmont region is a heavily agricultural section of the Piedmont Plateau located in Southeastern Pennsylvania frequently cited as a candidate for extensive ecological preservation.
Pennsylvania Dutch Country refers to an area of Southeastern Pennsylvania that has a high percentage of Amish, Mennonite, and "Fancy Dutch" residents. The Pennsylvania German language was historically common.
The Poconos, or the Pocono Mountains region, is a mountainous region of about 2,400 square miles (6,200 km²) located in Northeastern Pennsylvania, approximately 30 miles north of Allentown, which is a nationally popular recreational winter destination for skiing, snowboarding, and other winter sports and (in off-season months) for hiking, kayaking, tubing, and other recreational activities.
Counties constituting the Wyoming Valley Region of Pennsylvania
Wyoming Valley is a region of Northeastern Pennsylvania shaped like a crescent and part of the ridge-and-valley or folded Appalachians, which includes the metropolitan areas of Scranton and Wilkes-Barre.
