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Pennsylvania - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (4172 words) |
 | Pennsylvania (the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania) is one of four states of the United States of America that is called a commonwealth. |
 | Pennsylvania's nickname "The Keystone State" is quite apt, as the state forms a geographic bridge both between the Northeastern states and the Southern states, and between the Atlantic seaboard and the Midwest. |
 | Pennsylvania is bisected diagonally by ridges of the Appalachian Mountain chain from southwest to northeast. |
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 | Pennsylvania is divided into 60 judicial districts[1], most of which (save Philadelphia and Allegheny Counties) have district justices (formerly called justices of the peace), who preside mainly over minor criminal offenses and small civil claims. |
 | Pennsylvania is 180 miles (290 km) north to south and 310 miles (500 km) east to west. |
 | In 1961 an exposed seam of coal at Centralia, Pennsylvania caught fire and forced eventually almost the entire community to abandon their settlement; the coal fire is still burning today and is estimated to last 100 years more. |