Pennsylvania lays on the main ways to internal areas USA. This position getting the increasing value as the territory of the country and internal areas accustomed, took more and more important place in a national economy, had exclusive value for area development. Across Pennsylvania the main ways through Appalachian mountains connecting North Atlantic coast with central and the U.S. Western States lie.
The largest cities: Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Bethlehem, Harrisburg, Allentown, Lancaster.
Philadelphia
The oldest city in the USA. Here have written the American constitution. Still here there are more than HIGH SCHOOLS and students, than in any other American city.Who here lives: one and a half million person. Half from them — the Afro-Americans. The others — generally Irish, Italians and Poles.
Areas:
* The Western Philadelphia — «the University city».
* Southern Philadelphia — silent area with a large quantity of the Italian pizzerias.
* Fishtown — quarter of artists and musicians.
* Northern Philadelphia — a real ghetto with slums and gangsters.
Lancaster
57,700 inhabitants (1970; with 319,700 suburbs). The main agricultural centre of Pennsylvania.The industry:
Metalcutting, machine-building, textile, knitted, tobacco, the food-processing industry, manufacture of hours, umbrellas, linoleum.
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* To Spend the night in Hershey PA hotels.
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