page_title: Luzerne County, Pennsylvania
section_title: Adjacent counties
hierarchical_section_title: Luzerne County, Pennsylvania / Geography / Adjacent counties
caption_attribution_description: Glacial erratic at the summit of Mount Yeager, Luzerne County, within Nescopeck State Park. An &lt;a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nicholas_t/8419329970"&gt;unblazed, largely overgrown trail&lt;/a&gt; switchbacks up the mountain. (Topographic maps show the trail; the state park map does not.) The hike was disappointing; I had hoped to find a good vista at the summit, but all the views were obstructed by trees.
context_page_description: Luzerne County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 906 square miles, of which 890 square miles is land and 16 square miles is water. It is Northeastern Pennsylvania's second-largest county by total area. As of the 2010 census, the population was 320,918, making it the most populous county in the northeastern part of the state. The county seat and largest city is Wilkes-Barre. Other populous communities include Hazleton, Kingston, Nanticoke, and Pittston. Luzerne County is included in the Scranton–Wilkes-Barre–Hazleton Metropolitan Statistical Area, which has a total population of 555,426.
  On September 25, 1786, Luzerne County was formed from part of Northumberland County. It was named after Chevalier de la Luzerne, a French soldier and diplomat during the 18th century. When it was founded, Luzerne County occupied a large portion of Northeastern Pennsylvania. From 1810 to 1878, it was divided into several smaller counties. The counties of Bradford, Lackawanna, Susquehanna, and Wyoming were all formed from parts of Luzerne County.
context_section_description: Carbon County (southeast)
  Columbia County (west)
  Lackawanna County (northeast)
  Monroe County (east)
  Schuylkill County (south)
  Sullivan County (northwest)
  Wyoming County (north)
caption: Summit of Mount Yeager, Nescopeck State Park
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