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.