Scranton
Scranton is a city in northeastern Pennsylvania. It is near Wilkes-Barre, and is the seventh most populous city in the state. Today, it is perhaps best known as the setting of the hit TV show "The Office" and the birthplace of Joe Biden, the 46th President of the United States.Photo: Ajay Suresh, CC BY 2.0.
Photo: Vasiliymeshko, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Scranton Cultural Center
Theatre
Photo: Tomdobb, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Scranton Cultural Center at the Masonic Temple is a theatre and cultural center in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Scranton City Hall
Town hall
Photo: Ajay Suresh, CC BY 2.0.
Scranton City Hall is located at Washington and Mulberry streets in the downtown section of that city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.
Electric City Trolley Museum
Museum
Photo: Peter Van den Bossche, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Electric City Trolley Museum is a transport museum located in downtown Scranton, Pennsylvania, next to the Steamtown National Historic Site.
Localities in the Area
Dunmore
Photo: Doug Kerr, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Dunmore is a borough in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, United States, adjoining Scranton.
Scranton
Latitude
41.4087° or 41° 24' 31" northLongitude
-75.6621° or 75° 39' 44" westPopulation
72,900Elevation
230 metres (755 feet)IATA airport code
AVPUnited Nations Location Code
US SCROpen Location Code
87H6C85Q+F4OpenStreetMap ID
node 157605891OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
5211303Wikidata ID
Q271395Scranton Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Arabic: Scranton, Pennsylvania
- Arabic: سكرانتون
- Armenian: Սքրենթոն
- Azerbaijani: Skranton
- Bashkir: Скрантон (Пенсильвания)
- Bashkir: Скрантон
- Basque: Scranton (Pennsylvania)
- Basque: Scranton
- Belarusian: Скрантан (Пенсільванія)
- Belarusian: Скрантан
- Belarusian: Скрэнтан
- Bengali: স্ক্র্যান্টন
- Bosnian: Scranton
- Bulgarian: Скрантън
- Catalan: Scranton (Pennsilvània)
- Catalan: Scranton, Pennsilvània
- Catalan: Scranton, Pennsylvania
- Catalan: Scranton
- Cebuano: Scranton (kapital sa kondado)
- Cebuano: Scranton
- Central Kurdish: سکرانتن، پەنسلڤەینیا
- Chamorro: Scranton
- Chechen: Скрентон (Пенсильвани)
- Chechen: Скрентон
- Chinese: Scranton
- Chinese: 史卡蘭頓
- Chinese: 史格蘭頓
- Chinese: 斯克兰顿
- Chinese: 斯克蘭頓
- Chuvash: Скрантон
- Cornish: Scranton
- Crimean Tatar: Skranton
- Czech: Scranton
- Dagbani: Scranton
- Danish: Scranton
- Dutch: Scranton
- Egyptian Arabic: سكرانتون (بنسيلفانيا)
- Egyptian Arabic: سكرانتون
- English: Electric City
- English: Scranton, PA
- English: Scranton, Pennsylvania
- English: Scrantonia
- English: Steamtown
- Esperanto: Elektra-Urbo
- Esperanto: Scranton
- Esperanto: Skrantono, Pensilvanio
- Esperanto: Skrantono
- Estonian: Scranton
- Finnish: Scranton, Pennsylvania
- Finnish: Scranton
- French: Scranton
- French: Scranton, Pennsylvanie
- French: Ville de Scranton
- French: Ville électrique
- German: Elektrische Stadt
- German: Scranton
- German: Scranton, Pennsylvania
- German: Scranton, Vereinigte Staaten
- German: Stadt Scranton
- Greek: Σκράντον
- Gujarati: સ્ક્રેંટન
- Haitian: Scranton, Pennsilvani
- Haitian: Scranton
- Hebrew: סקרנטון
- Hindi: स्क्रैन्टन
- Hungarian: Scranton
- Indonesian: Scranton
- Interlingua: Scranton
- Irish: Cathair Leictreach
- Irish: Scranton, Pennsylvania
- Irish: Scranton
- Italian: Scranton
- Japanese: スクラントン
- Japanese: スクラントン市
- Japanese: ペンシルベニア州スクラントン
- Japanese: 電気の街
- Kannada: ಸ್ಕ್ರಾಂಟನ್
- Korean: 스크랜턴
- Ladin: Scranton (Pennsylvania)
- Ladin: Scranton
- Latin: Scrantonia
- Latvian: Skrentona
- Lithuanian: Skrantonas
- Malagasy: Scranton, Pennsylvania
- Malagasy: Scranton
- Malay: Scranton, Pennsylvania
- Malay: Scranton
- Marathi: स्क्रँटन
- Marathi: स्क्रॅंटन
- Min Nan Chinese: Scranton
- Moksha: Скрэнтон
- Northern Frisian: Scranton (Pennsylvania)
- Northern Frisian: Scranton
- Norwegian: Scranton
- Norwegian Bokmål: Scranton
- Persian: اسکرانتون، پنسیلوانیا
- Piemontese: Scranton (Pennsylvania)
- Piemontese: Scranton
- Polish: Miasto Scranton
- Polish: Miasto elektryczne
- Polish: Scranton, PA
- Polish: Scranton, Pensylwania
- Polish: Scranton
- Portuguese: Scranton
- Romanian: Scranton, Pennsylvania
- Russian: Скрантон
- Scots: Scranton, Pennsylvanie
- Scots: Scranton
- Serbian: Скрантон
- Serbo-Croatian: Scranton, Pennsylvania
- Serbo-Croatian: Scranton
- Silesian: Scranton
- Sinhala: ස්ක්රැන්ටන්
- Slovak: Scranton
- Slovenian: Scranton, Pensilvanija
- Slovenian: Scranton
- South Azerbaijani: اسکرانتون، پنسیلوانیا
- South Azerbaijani: ایسکرانتون، پنسیلوانیا
- Spanish: La ciudad eléctrica
- Spanish: Scranton
- Spanish: Scranton (Pensilvania)
- Swahili: Scranton
- Swedish: Scranton, Pennsylvania
- Swedish: Scranton
- Tagalog: Scranton, Pennsylvania
- Tajik: Скрентон
- Tamil: சுகிரன்டன்
- Tatar: Скрентон (Пенсильвания)
- Tatar: Скрентон
- Telugu: స్క్రాన్తన్
- Thai: สแครนตัน
- Tornedalen Finnish: Scranton, Pennsylvania
- Tornedalen Finnish: Scranton
- Turkish: Scranton, Pensilvanya
- Turkish: Scranton
- Ukrainian: Скрентон
- Urdu: سکرانٹن، پنسلوانیا
- Uzbek: Scranton
- Vietnamese: Scranton
- Volapük: Scranton
- Waray (Philippines): Scranton
- Welsh: Scranton, Pennsylvania
- Western Panjabi: سکرانٹن
- Wu Chinese: 斯克兰顿 (宾夕法尼亚州)
- Yakut: Скрантон
- Yiddish: סקרענטאן
- Capouse
- Deep Hollow
- Harrison
- Scranton, Pennsylvani
- Slocum Hollow
- 斯克兰顿（宾夕法尼亚州）
Other Places Named Scranton
In the Area
Scranton is situated close to the neighbourhood Downtown and the locality Carbon Street Junction.
- Scranton JunctionLocality
- The Hill SectionNeighbourhood
- West SideNeighbourhood
- PetersburgNeighbourhood
- South SideNeighbourhood
- Laurel JunctionLocality
Popular Destinations in Pennsylvania
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