[poh-kuh-noh] 
| a mountain range in NE Pennsylvania: resort area. ab. 2000 ft. (610 m) high. |
| Po·co·no Mountains (pō'kə-nō') A range of the Appalachian system in northeast Pennsylvania rising to about 488 m (1,600 ft). The Poconos are a popular year-round resort area. |
Pocono Mountains
highland region in Wayne, Pike, Monroe, and eastern Carbon counties of northeastern Pennsylvania, U.S. The Poconos are bounded on the west by the Lehigh River; on the northwest by river valleys containing the cities of Scranton and Wilkes-Barre; and on the east by the Delaware River, which forms the Pennsylvania-New York and Pennsylvania-New Jersey borders. The Poconos were part of the notorious Walking Purchase (1737) negotiated between Thomas Penn (then proprietor of Pennsylvania) and the Delaware Indians
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