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  2. Cambria, county, central Pennsylvania, U.S.It consists of a mountainous region on the Allegheny Plateau, with the Allegheny Mountains along the eastern edge. The principal waterways are the Conemaugh and Little Conemaugh rivers, Glendale Lake, and Beaverdam Run, in addition to Clearfield, Stony, and Blacklick creeks.Parklands include Prince Gallitzin and Laurel Ridge state parks.
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  3. 3 days agoThe name America is derived from that of the Italian merchant and navigator Amerigo Vespucci, one of the earliest European explorers to visit the New World.Although at first the term America was applied only to the southern half of the continent, the designation soon was applied to the entire landmass. Those portions that widened out north of the Isthmus of Panama became known as North America ...
  4. Interior Lowlands, the broad, generally flat areas of the central part of the North American continent. The name is used in regional geologic and physiographic descriptions of North America and the conterminous United States. From the tectonic view, the continental Interior Lowlands are areas
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  5. 5 days agoUnited States - Regions, Culture, Geography: The differences among America's traditional regions, or culture areas, tend to be slight and shallow as compared with such areas in most older, more stable countries. The muted, often subtle nature of interregional differences can be ascribed to the relative newness of American settlement, a perpetually high degree of mobility, a superb ...
  6. 6 days agoPine Creek Gorge Pine Creek Gorge, the "Grand Canyon of Pennsylvania," north-central Pennsylvania. (more) Pennsylvania, constituent state of the United States of America, one of the original 13 American colonies. The state is approximately rectangular in shape and stretches about 300 miles (480 km) from east to west and 150 miles (240 km ...
  7. Johnstown, city, Cambria county, southwestern Pennsylvania, U.S.It lies at the confluence of the Conemaugh River and Stony Creek, 76 miles (122 km) east of Pittsburgh.Johnstown is the centre of a metropolitan area comprising more than 60 townships and boroughs.. The area was the site of a Shawnee and Delaware Indian village before Joseph Johns, a Swiss Mennonite, founded the town in 1800.
  8. 5 days agoThe Americas can be roughly divided into two major cultural regions: Latin America, which includes North America south of the Rio Grande, the islands of the West Indies, and all of South America; and Anglo-America, which includes Canada and the United States. The term Middle America is sometimes used to designate Mexico, Central America, and ...
  9. Feb 11, 2025United States - Settlement Patterns: Although the land that now constitutes the United States was occupied and much affected by diverse Indian cultures over many millennia, these pre-European settlement patterns have had virtually no impact upon the contemporary nation—except locally, as in parts of New Mexico. A benign habitat permitted a huge contiguous tract of settled land to materialize ...
  10. North America, third largest of the world's continents, lying for the most part between the Arctic Circle and the Tropic of Cancer.It extends for more than 5,000 miles (8,000 km) to within 500 miles (800 km) of both the North Pole and the Equator and has an east-west extent of 5,000 miles. It covers an area of 9,355,000 square miles (24,230,000 square km).
  11. The county was formed in 1786 and named for Anne César, chevalier de la Luzerne, who was the French minister to the United States during the American Revolution. Wilkes-Barre, the county seat, is part of a metropolitan statistical area with Scranton that includes such cities as Nanticoke and Pittston. The principal boroughs are Kingston, Plymouth, Forty Fort, Edwardsville, Swoyersville, and ...

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