racial demographics of lower merion township

Pennsylvania was founded in 1681 through a royal land grant to William Penn, son of the state's namesake a southeast portion of the state was once part of the colony of New Sweden. While it has only 140 miles (225 km) of waterfront along Lake Erie and the Delaware River, Pennsylvania has the most navigable rivers of any state in the nation, including the Allegheny, Delaware, Genesee, Ohio, Schuylkill, Susquehanna, and others. The Appalachian Mountains run through the center of the state the Allegheny and Pocono mountains span much of Northeastern Pennsylvania close to 60% of the state is forested. Pennsylvania's geography is highly diverse. The state's subsequent five most populous cities are Allentown, Reading, Erie, Scranton, and Bethlehem. Another 2.37 million residents reside in Greater Pittsburgh in the southwest, centered in and around Pittsburgh, the state's second-largest and Western Pennsylvania's largest city. The southeastern Delaware Valley metropolitan area comprises and surrounds Philadelphia, the state's largest and nation's sixth-most populous city. The state is the 33rd-largest by area and the ninth-largest among all states in population density.

Pennsylvania is the fifth-most populous state in the United States, with over 13 million residents as of the 2020 United States census. Pennsylvania borders Delaware to its southeast, Maryland to its south, West Virginia to its southwest, Ohio to its west, Lake Erie and the Canadian province of Ontario to its northwest, New York to its north, and the Delaware River and New Jersey to its east.

Pennsylvania ( / ˌ p ɛ n s ɪ l ˈ v eɪ n i ə/ ( listen) PEN-sil- VAY-nee-ə Pennsylvania German: Pennsilfaani), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States.

Racial demographics of lower merion township