Western Pennsylvania consists of the western third of the state of Pennsylvania in the United States. Pittsburgh is the region's principal city, with a metropolitan area population of about 2.4 million people, and serves as its economic and cultural center. Erie, Altoona, and Johnstown are its other metropolitan centers. As of the 2010 census, Western Pennsylvania's total population is nearly 4 million.
Although the Commonwealth does not designate Western Pennsylvania as an official region, since colonial times it has retained a distinct identity not only because of its geographical distance from Philadelphia, the beginning of Pennsylvania settlement, but especially because of its topographical separation from the east by virtue of the Appalachian Mountains, which characterize much of the western region. In the 18th century, this separateness caused some to rally for the formation of a 14th state in this region named Westsylvania.
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... The Center for Emergency Medicine of Western Pennsylvania is a multi-hospital consortium based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ... University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, UPMC Mercy, Western Pennsylvania Hospital and Altoona Hospital ...
... Western Pennsylvania is distinctive from the rest of the state due to several important and complex factors The initial difficulty of transportation access from the east across miles of seemingly ... Indeed the initial method of access was to go out of Pennsylvania altogether, follow the Potomac River northwest through Maryland and Virginia, and then re-enter the state in its southwest corner ... including a canal system over the Appalachians and then, later, the Pennsylvania Railroad which extended the railroad systems of the East Coast west ...
... See also Pittsburgh English The dialect of Western Pennsylvania is, for many purposes, an eastern extension of the North Midland it is spoken also in Youngstown, Ohio, ten miles west of ... Like the Midland proper, the Western Pennsylvania accent features fronting of /oʊ/ and /aʊ/, as well as positive anymore ... The chief distinguishing feature of Western Pennsylvania as a whole is that the cot–caught merger is almost complete here (it is complete in Pittsburgh ...
... of the Carlisle Indian School, located in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, also joined Latrobe that season ... After the team's game against Western University of Pennsylvania, Doggie Trenchard and Eddie Blair, the team's original quarterback who was replaced by Brallier in 1895, joined the team ... The championship of western Pennsylvania was expected to be a battle between the Duquesne and Pittsburgh Athletic Club ...
... Pat DiCesare, were two boyhood friends from the small Western Pennsylvania town of Trafford ... who in the early 60s had organized local high school basketball tournaments throughout Pennsylvania ... of DiCesare Engler Productions had made a name for himself by promoting major concert events in Western Pennsylvania ...
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