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'''Scranton''' is a city in and the [[county seat]] of [[Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania]], United States. With a population of 76,328 as of the [[2020 United States census|2020 U.S. census]],<ref name="QF2020"/> Scranton is the most populous city in [[Northeastern Pennsylvania]] and the [[Wyoming Valley]] metropolitan area, which has a population of 562,037 as of 2020. It is the [[List of municipalities in Pennsylvania|sixth-most populous city]] in Pennsylvania.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.usa.com/scranton-wilkes-barre-pa-area.htm |title=Scranton, Wilkes, Barre Metro Area |publisher=Usa.com |access-date=October 26, 2015 |archive-date=January 2, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160102222510/http://www.usa.com/scranton-wilkes-barre-pa-area.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>
The contiguous network of five [[City|cities]] and more than 40 [[Borough|boroughs]] all built in a straight line in Northeastern Pennsylvania's urban core act culturally and logistically as one continuous city, so while Scranton is a mid-sized city, the larger Scranton/Wilkes-Barre
Scranton hosts a [[United States federal courts|federal court]] building for the [[United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania]]. The city is conventionally divided into nine districts: North Scranton, Southside, Westside, Eastside/Hill Section, Central City, Minooka, West Mountain, East Mountain, and Green Ridge, though these areas do not have legal status. The city is the geographic and cultural center of the [[Lackawanna River]] valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania, as well as the largest of the former [[anthracite|anthracite coal]] mining communities in a contiguous quilt-work that also includes [[Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania|Wilkes-Barre]], [[Nanticoke, Pennsylvania|Nanticoke]], [[Pittston, Pennsylvania|Pittston]], and [[Carbondale, Pennsylvania|Carbondale]].
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