English Wikipedia - The Free Encycl...
Download this dictionary
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh
( ) is the second-largest city in the
Commonwealth
of
Pennsylvania
with a population of 305,842 and the
county seat
of
Allegheny County
. The
Combined Statistical Area
(CSA) population of 2,659,937 is the largest in both the
Ohio Valley
and
Appalachia
and the
20th-largest in the U.S.
Pittsburgh is known as both "the Steel City" for its more than 300
steel
-related businesses, as well as "
the City of Bridges
" for its 446 bridges. The city features
30 skyscrapers
,
2 inclines
, a
pre-revolutionary fortification
and the
source of the Ohio River
at the confluence of the
Monongahela
and
Allegheny
rivers. This vital link of the
Atlantic coast
and Midwest through the mineral-rich
Alleghenies
made the area coveted by the French and
British Empires
,
Virginia
,
Whiskey Rebels
,
Civil War raiders
and media networks.
See more at Wikipedia.org...
© This article uses material from
Wikipedia
®
and is licensed under the
GNU Free Documentation License
and under the
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License