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About Allentown

Allentown (Pennsylvania Dutch: Allenschteddel, Allenschtadt, or Ellsdaun) is a city in Lehigh County in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States. The city had a population of 125,845 at the time of the 2020 census. The fastest-growing major city in Pennsylvania, Allentown is the state's third-largest city after Philadelphia and Pittsburgh and the largest city in both Lehigh County and the Lehigh Valley, which had a population of 861,899 and was the 68th-most populous metropolitan area in the United States as of 2020.Founded in 1762 and located on the Lehigh River, a 109-mile-long (175 km) tributary of the Delaware River, it is the largest of three adjacent cities, including Bethlehem and Easton in Lehigh and Northampton counties, in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania. It is also the county seat.Allentown is located 48 miles (77 km) north of Philadelphia, the nation's sixth-largest city, and 78 miles (126 km) west of New York City, the nation's largest city. == History == === Origins === In the early 1700s, the area that is now Allentown was a wilderness of scrub oak where Lenape Indian American tribes fished for trout and hunted for deer, grouse, and other game.