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| state capital | Harrisburg |
| state nickname | Keystone State |
| state motto | "Virtue, Liberty, and Independence" |
| state song | "Pennsylvania" |
| state flower | mountain laurel |
| state bird | ruffed grouse |
| state animal | white-tailed deer |
| state insect | firefly |
| state fish | brook trout |
| state dog | Great Dane |
| state tree | hemlock |
| location of two-acre maze built in a cornfield in August of 1995 | Shippensburg |
| location of the United States Mint | Philadelphia |
| opened first steel factory near Pittsburgh in 1873 | Andrew Carnegie |
| opened country's first department store in 1876 | John Wanamaker |
| location of the 1889 flood | Johnstown |
| location of the first Swedish settlement | Tinicum Island |
| largest city in the state | Philadelphia |
| home of Phil the Groundhog | Punxsutawney |
| the seven borders of Pennsylvania | Lake Erie, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia, Ohio |
| highest point | Mt. Davis (3,213 ft.) |
| lowest point | sea level along the Delaware River |
| major rivers | Delaware, Ohio, Allegheny, Monongahela, Susquehanna |
| major mountain ranges | Allegheny, Blue Ridge, and Pocono, all part of the Appalachian Range |
| major lakes | Conneaut, Raystown, Erie, Wallenpaupack |
| meeting place of the Continental Congress in 1775 | Independence Hall in Philadelphia |
| gorge that forms part of the boundary between Pennsylvania and New Jersey | Delaware Water Gap in the Kittatinny Mountains |
| site of the death of nearly 7000 soldiers during the Civil War | Gettysburg |
| Pittsburgh's Golden Triangle | Allegheny and Monongahela rivers join to form the Ohio River |
| former meeting place for fur trappers and American Indians | Fort Pitt, located on the Golden Triangle |
| name of the park that marks the location of the former Fort Pitt | Point State Park |
| number of bridges within the city of Pittsburgh | 720 |
| often called Pennsylvania Dutch Country | Lancaster County |
| meaning of the word "Dutch" in the term Pennsylvania Dutch | Deutsche, meaning "German" |
| Bear Run home built by Frank Lloyd Wright | Fallingwater |
