Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania is a US state in the Northeast, admitted to the Union in 1787. Its capital is Harrisburg, and it goes by the nickname "the Keystone State". The USPS abbreviation is PA.
Its geographic centre sits at 40.88° N, 77.80° W, the reference point GEOPUNK measures your guesses against in the US state games.
- »Both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were signed in Philadelphia.
- »Pennsylvania is officially a commonwealth.
- »The first commercial oil well was drilled at Titusville in 1859.
Pennsylvania touches six neighbours. Taking each direction from one centre to the other and measuring the boundary they share: New York northeast, 508 km, Maryland southeast, 315 km, New Jersey east, 262 km, West Virginia southwest, 191 km, Ohio west, 149 km and Delaware southeast, 38 km. The longest of those runs is with New York.
Harrisburg became capital in 1812, moved from Philadelphia and Lancaster. Its capitol dome was modelled on St Peter's in Rome.
117,213 km² (45,256 sq mi), 33rd largest of 50 states by land area, almost exactly the size of Louisiana.
Set against the country archive, that puts it closest in size to Benin.
The state coat of arms on blue, with two draft horses supporting a shield of a ship, a plough and sheaves of wheat, above the motto 'Virtue, Liberty and Independence'.
Easily confused with Vermont, Idaho, North Dakota, Maine, Indiana and Kansas.
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