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The Wyoming Valley is a historic industrialized region of northeastern Pennsylvania once famous for fueling the industrial revolution in the United States with its many anthracite coal mines. As a metropolitan area, it is known as the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre area, the 95th-largest metropolitan area in the United States. It is called the "Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Metropolitan Area" after its principal cities, Scranton and Wilkes-Barre, and makes up its own unique physiographic province, the Anthracite Valley in the geology of Pennsylvania. The airport(s) for this area are Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport (Avoca) and the Wilkes-Barre Wyoming Valley Airport (Forty Fort). The Wyoming Valley also has professional sports teams; they include the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Railriders (Baseball AAA), the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins (Hockey AHL), the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Shamrocks (lacrosse PLL), and the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Steamers(Basketball Premier Basketball League). Some other attractions are the Mohegan Sun Arena at Casey Plaza in Wilkes-Barre, the Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, PNC Field in Moosic, Mohegan Sun Casino in Plains, the Toyota Pavilion in Scranton, the Wyoming Valley Mall in Wilkes-Barre, the Shoppes at Montage in Moosic, the Steamtown Mall in Scranton, the Viewmont Mall in Scranton/Dickson City, Pennsylvania, and the Montage Mountain Waterpark/Ski Resort in Scranton. The valley is a crescent-shaped depression, a part of the ridge-and-valley or folded Appalachians. The Susquehanna River occupies the southern part of the valley, which is notable for its deposits of anthracite. These have been extensively mined. Deep mining has declined, however, following the 1959 Knox Mine Disaster when the roof of the Knox Coal Company's mine under the river collapsed. The Pocono Mountains are to the south and to the east of the Wyoming Valley. ==Metropolitan Statistical Area== The Scranton–Wilkes-Barre–Hazleton, PA Metropolitan Statistical Area covers Lackawanna, Luzerne and Wyoming counties.〔, Office of Management and Budget, 2007-05-11. Accessed 2008-07-30.〕 It had a combined population of 563,936 in 2011, according to TrueKnowledge.com. The counties adjacent to the "Wyoming Valley" includes Monroe County (Southeast), Susquehanna County (Northeast), Wayne County (East), Columbia County (West), Bradford County (Northwest), Carbon County (South), Sullivan County (West) and Schuylkill County (Southeast). The area also has the highest percentage of non-Hispanic whites of any U.S. metropolitan area with a population over 500,000, with 96.2% of the population stating their race as white alone and not claiming Hispanic ethnicity.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Percent Non-Hispanic White, 2000: Metros Ranked by Percent of Population Selecting Race of Non-Hispanic/Latino, White Alone )〕 When metropolitan areas were first defined in 1950, Scranton and Wilkes-Barre were in separate metropolitan areas. Lackawanna County was defined as the Scranton Standard Metropolitan Area, while Luzerne County was defined as the Wilkes-Barre–Hazleton Standard Metropolitan Area. The two metropolitan areas were merged after the 1970 census as the Northeast Pennsylvania Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area, with Monroe County added as a component. It was renamed the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Metropolitan Statistical Area after the 1980 census, and Columbia and Wyoming counties were added. Hazleton was added as a primary city in the 1990 census, while Monroe County lost its metropolitan status. After the 2000 census, Columbia County lost metropolitan status, while Hazleton was removed as a primary city. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wyoming Valley」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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