Pennsylvania, USA
State
Location overview
Pennsylvania is a state in the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern and Appalachian regions of the United States, bordered by New York to the north, New Jersey to the east, Delaware and Maryland to the southeast and south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west and Lake Erie to the northwest. Harrisburg is the state capital, while Philadelphia is the largest city; Pittsburgh, Allentown, Erie, Reading, Scranton and Bethlehem are other major population centers. Pennsylvania’s landscape ranges from the Atlantic Coastal Plain around Philadelphia through the rolling Piedmont and Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians to the Allegheny Plateau in the west. The state is traversed by major waterways including the Delaware, Susquehanna, Allegheny, Monongahela and Ohio rivers, while Lake Erie provides its only Great Lakes shoreline. Pennsylvania is divided into 67 counties, covers approximately 44,743 square miles of land and had 13,002,700 residents in the 2020 census. One of the original thirteen colonies, Pennsylvania played a central role in the founding of the United States and became the second state to ratify the U.S. Constitution in 1787.
Location details
Where it sits
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USA
- Pennsylvania
Administrative boundaries
- Allentown School District
- Indiana Area School District
- Interboro School District
- Minersville Area School District
- Pittsburgh Regional Transit service area
Related incidents
- Loxone cyberattack
- Ahold Delhaize cybersecurity incident
- Indiana Area School District Cybersecurity Incident
- Franklin Mint Federal Credit Union domain transfer incident
- Beaver County behavioral health ransomware incident
- Cyber incident disrupts Cedar Crest College systems
- Delaware County cyberattack disrupts county systems
- West Pharmaceutical cyberattack disrupts global operations
- Lehigh Carbon Community College cyber disruption
- State College Borough cyberattack
- Community College of Beaver County ransomware incident
- Metro Pet Vet and Manheim Pike ransomware incident
- Minersville Area School District ransomware attack
- University of Pennsylvania Cyberattack
- Harrisburg International Airport PA system intrusion
- Chester County Library System network incident
- Pennsylvania attorney general ransomware disrupted litigation
- City of York ransomware incident
- Philadelphia Insurance Companies cyberattack
- Erie Insurance cyberattack
- EDforTech Alliance cyberattack
- Covenant Health cyberattack disrupts hospital operations
- Endless Mountains Health Systems
- Ransomware disrupts Pittsburgh Regional Transit rail and customer services
- Interboro School District cyberattack
Organizations
- Allentown School District
- Beaver County, Pennsylvania
- Borough of State College
- Cedar Crest College
- Centre Region Council of Governments
- Chester County Library System
- City of York
- Community College of Beaver County
- Delaware County, Pennsylvania
- Endless Mountains Health Systems
- Erie Insurance
- Franklin Mint Federal Credit Union
- Indiana Area School District
- Interboro School District
- Lehigh Carbon Community College
- Loxone
- Manheim Pike Veterinary Hospital
- Metro Pet Vet
- Minersville Area School District
- Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General
- Philadelphia Insurance Companies
- Pittsburgh Regional Transit
- St. Mary’s Villa Nursing Home
- Susquehanna Area Regional Airport Authority
- The GIANT Company
- Tokio Marine North America Services
- University of Pennsylvania
- West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc.