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Place Name
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Lebanon County
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Place Status (Type)
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county
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Capital is
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Lebanon
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Population
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113,744 (1990)
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Location
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Pennsylvania, United States, North America
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Latitude
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unknown
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Longitude
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unknown
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Lebanon
, county (
362 sq mi/938 sq km; 1990 pop.
113,744), SE central Pa.;  Lebanon. Drained by Swatara Creek.
Agr. (corn, wheat, oats, barley, hay, alfalfa, soybeans; sheep, hogs,
cattle, chickens, eggs, dairying) area; limestone. Mfg. at Lebanon,
Myerstown, and Palmyra. Stiegel glassware made here in 18th cent.
Indiantown Gap Military Reservation in NW,
10 mi/16 km NW of Lebanon, est. 1935.
Appalachian Trail passes through N part of co., on stony and Blue Mt.
ridges; Swatara State Park in N; Lebanon Valley in S; part of Middle
Creek Waterfowl Management Area in SE. Settled c.1710 by Germans;
formed 1813.
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