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State College
is a borough in
Centre County
in the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania
. It is the largest designated borough in Pennsylvania.
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In the 2010 census, the borough population was 42,034 with about 105,000 living in the borough plus the surrounding townships often referred to locally as the "Centre Region."
Many of these Centre Region communities also carry a "State College, PA" address although are not part of the borough of State College.
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State College is a
college town
, dominated economically and demographically by the presence of the
University Park
campus of the
Pennsylvania State University
(Penn State).