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Wilkes-Barre ( / ˈwɪlksbɛər / WILKS-bair or /- bɛəri / -bair-ee) is a city in and the county seat of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States. Located at the center of the Wyoming Valley in Northeastern Pennsylvania, it had a population of 44,328 in the 2020 census. It is the second-largest city, after Scranton, in the Scranton ...
As a metropolitan area, it is known as the Scranton–Wilkes-Barre metropolitan area, after its principal cities, Scranton and Wilkes-Barre. With a population of 567,559 as of the 2020 United States census, it is the fifth-largest metropolitan area in Pennsylvania, after the Delaware Valley, Greater Pittsburgh, the Lehigh Valley, and the ...
Wilkes-Barre Township is a township with home rule status in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is adjacent to the city of Wilkes-Barre . The population of the township was 3,219 at the 2020 census.
It is Northeastern Pennsylvania 's second-largest county by total area. As of the 2020 census, the population was 325,594, making it the most populous county in the northeastern part of the state. The county seat and most populous city is Wilkes-Barre. [1]
Northeastern Pennsylvania. / 41.4468; -75.4156. Northeastern Pennsylvania ( N.E.P.A. or sometimes called Nepa) is a region of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania that includes the Pocono Mountains, the Endless Mountains, and the industrial cities of Scranton, Wilkes-Barre, Pittston, Hazleton, Nanticoke, and Carbondale.
Harrisburg-York-Lebanon, PA CSA: 5: Scranton–Wilkes-Barre, PA MSA: 567,559 563,631 +0.70%: 6: Lancaster, PA MSA: 552,984 519,445 +6.46%: 7: York-Hanover, PA MSA: 456,438 434,972 +4.94%: Harrisburg-York-Lebanon, PA CSA: 8: Reading, PA MSA: 428,849 411,442 +4.23%: Philadelphia-Reading-Camden, PA-NJ-DE-MD CSA: 9: Erie, PA MSA: 270,876 280,566 ...
Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ MSA| Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ MSA: 844,052 738,785 Lehigh County, Pennsylvania: 369,318 Northampton County, Pennsylvania: 305,285 Warren County, New Jersey: 105,267: Carbon County, Pennsylvania: 64,182 Scranton-Wilkes-Barre, PA MSA: 553,885 Luzerne County, Pennsylvania: 317,417 Lackawanna County ...
It serves: Bear Creek Township, Borough of Bear Creek Village, Borough of Laflin, Buck Township, City of Wilkes-Barre, Laurel Run Borough, Plains Township and Wilkes-Barre Township. According to 2000 federal census data, the district serves a resident population of 62,749.
Wilkes University is a private university in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. It has over 2,200 undergraduates and over 2,200 graduate students (both full and part-time). [3] Wilkes was founded in 1933 as a satellite campus of Bucknell University , [6] and became an independent institution in 1947, naming itself Wilkes College, after English radical ...
As of the 2020 census, the borough population was 1,766. Tunkhannock is in the Scranton–Wilkes-Barre–Hazleton, PA Metropolitan Statistical Area. The name Tunkhannock is derived from the Minsi-Len'api term Ptuk'hanna'unk, which means "Bend-in-river-place", especially to the town's west, upstream at the radical bend called "The Neck".