Pennsylvania is located along the East Coast of the United States. Though its easternmost border does not directly touch the coastline of the Atlantic Ocean, the state is considered part of the East Coast region.

Mid-Atlantic region

Western Pennsylvania is a region in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, covering the western third of the state. Pittsburgh is the region’s principal city, with a metropolitan area population of about 2.4 million people, and serves as its economic and cultural center….

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No. Pennsylvania is a “Mid-Atlantic” state. It is north of Maryland, which some might regard as Southern. Its cultural ties are to the Northeast, including New England, not to the South.

Presentation on theme: “The 5 Major Geographic Regions of Pennsylvania”— Presentation transcript:

• The 5 Major Geographic Regions of Pennsylvania.
• The Atlantic Coastal Plain Region.
• The Piedmont Region Most of the Southeastern part of the state.
• The Ridge and Valley Region.
• The Allegheny Plateau Region.

Contents

• 1 Southeastern Pennsylvania. 1.1 Delaware Valley. 1.2 Pennsylvania Piedmont.
• 2 Northeastern Pennsylvania. 2.1 Northeastern Pennsylvania. 2.2 The Poconos.
• 3 Central Pennsylvania. 3.1 Susquehanna River Valley. 3.2 South Central Pennsylvania.
• 4 Western Pennsylvania. 4.1 Laurel Highlands. 4.2 Greater Pittsburgh.

Landforms

• Central Lowlands.
• Appalachian Plateaus.
• Ridge and Valley.
• New England.
• Piedmont.
• Atlantic Coastal Plain.

As one of the 13 original founding states, Pennsylvania was the second to ratify the 1787 U.S. Constitution, drafted and signed in Independence Hall. Today, the state is famous for its industrial and agricultural outputs.

As any Pennsylvanian can tell you, there’s a huge difference between the state’s two most well-known accents: Philly’s hoagiemouth and Pittsburgh’s “n’at”-laden talk.

Coal State

Although Swedes and Dutch were the first European settlers, William Penn, a Quaker, named Pennsylvania in honor of his father by combining the name Penn and the Latin term sylvania, which translates as “woodlands,” to come up with “Penn’s woodlands.” Known as the “Keystone State,” Pennsylvania is one of the original 13 …

Pennsylvania State House (Independence Hall), Philadelphia. Intermittingly from May 10, 1775 to March 1, 1781. The Second Continental Congress convened in Philadelphia on May 10, 1775. This time it met in the Pennsylvania State House, or Independence Hall, as it is now called.

The Pennsylvania Dutch population arrived in droves between the late 1600s and the early 1800s to escape religious persecution in Europe. Like so many other persecuted groups, they were drawn in by William Penn’s promise of religious freedom in his new land of Pennsylvania.

Contrary to popular belief, the word “Dutch” in “Pennsylvania Dutch” is not a mistranslation, but rather a corruption of the Pennsylvania German endonym Deitsch, which means “Pennsylvania Dutch / German” or “German”.

The Pennsylvania Dutch are descendants of early German-speaking immigrants who arrived in Pennsylvania in the 1700s and 1800s to escape religious persecution in Europe.

Pennsylvania Dutch Egg Nog is a blend of rich real dairy cream, rum, brandy, and blended whisky, along with their mix of mouth-watering ingredients that make their recipe one that’s hard to beat.

Nevertheless, modern Pennsylvania Dutch and the above German dialects are more similar to each other than either is to “standard German”. It is a German dialect that has been strongly influenced by English. This said, it is still unmistakably a German dialect, and if you know German, you can understand a lot of it.

The Pennsylvania Dutch (also called Pennsylvania Germans or Pennsylvania Deutsch) are descendants of early German immigrants to Pennsylvania who arrived in droves, mostly before 1800, to escape religious persecution in Europe.

Nederlanders) are a West Germanic ethnic group and nation native to the Netherlands. They share a common ancestry and culture and speak the Dutch language….Dutch people.

Nederlanders
Germany	128,000
Belgium	121,000
New Zealand	100,000
France	60,000

The word “Amish” derives from his name. The Pennsylvania Dutch are not Dutch at all. The word Dutch is a corruption of “Deutsch” or German, of which they speak an ancient dialect.

Louden explains that as the minority language, most Amish Swiss German speakers can understand Pennsylvania Dutch, but the reverse isn’t necessarily true.

No for multiple reasons. Amish can’t speak German. They speak what is called Pennsylvania Dutch, which is a bastardization of English, German, and some evolved mix of the two, and what they call “High German”, which is a derivative of old German and old English.

Dutch and German are two Germanic languages that are relatively close linguistically. Like English, they both belong to the Germanic branch of the Indo-European language family, making them a sort of “linguistic cousins”. Studies have found, however, that Dutch speakers can understand roughly 50% of written German.