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Northern Tier (Pennsylvania)
The Northern Tier is a geographic region consisting of five rural counties in north-central Pennsylvania. Geography The region is bordered to the north by the Southern Tier of New York state. Together, these regions are known as the Twin Tiers. The counties and important towns in the Northern Tier are: *Bradford **Athens ** Sayre ** Towanda * Sullivan ** Dushore ** Laporte * Susquehanna ** Forest City ** Montrose ** New Milford * Tioga **Mansfield ** Wellsboro *Wyoming ** Tunkhannock The region is bounded to the north by the Southern Tier of New York, to the west by Northern Pennsylvania, and to the east by Northeastern Pennsylvania. Population The five Northern Tier counties are home to roughly 180,000 people distributed among many small towns and the countryside. The largest town is Sayre which is located on the left-east bank of the North Branch Susquehanna River and is on Interstate 86 where it dips just south of the New York state line. Transportation U.S. R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Map Of PA Northern Tier
A map is a symbolic depiction emphasizing relationships between elements of some space, such as Physical body, objects, regions, or themes. Many maps are static, fixed to paper or some other durable medium, while others are dynamic or interactive. Although most commonly used to depict geography, maps may represent any space, real or fictional, without regard to Context (language use), context or Scale (map), scale, such as in brain mapping, DNA mapping, or computer network topology mapping. The space being mapped may be two dimensional, such as the surface of the earth, three dimensional, such as the interior of the earth, or even more abstract spaces of any dimension, such as arise in modeling phenomena having many independent variables. Although the earliest maps known are of the heavens, geographic maps of territory have a very long tradition and exist from ancient times. The word "map" comes from the , wherein ''mappa'' meant 'napkin' or 'cloth' and ''mundi'' 'the world'. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
