Pittsburgh metropolitan area
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The Pittsburgh Metro Area is the U.S. Census defined seven county region surrounding the city of Pittsburgh in southwestern Pennsylvania, United States of America. The counties include Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Fayette, Washington, and Westmoreland,
The area is considered by many to be only part of the true Pittsburgh area. For instance the Pittsburgh "market" as used by radio and TV claims the counties of Indiana, Greene and Lawrence in Pennsylvania, as well as Monongalia, Preston and Garrett counties in West Virginia and Maryland. See the Pittsburgh DMA for more precise definition of this area. There is also considerable evidence linking the Northern Panhandle of West Virginia and the east-central and southeastern counties of the state of Ohio, see Pittsburgh Tri-State for further data supporting this minority claim. Although separated from each other by natural barriers the two regions are growing more and more close.
