Editing Pennsylvania Dutch (section)

==Geographic distribution==
[[File:Pennsylvania German Ancestry 2012.webp|thumb|upright=1|Diagram indicating Pennsylvania Dutch settlement in the United States]]
{{Main|Pennsylvania Dutch Country}}
The Pennsylvania Dutch live primarily in the [[Delaware Valley]] and in the Pennsylvania Dutch Country, a large area that includes [[South Central Pennsylvania]], in the area stretching in an arc from [[Bethlehem, Pennsylvania|Bethlehem]] and [[Allentown, Pennsylvania|Allentown]] in the [[Lehigh Valley]] westward through [[Reading, Pennsylvania|Reading]], [[Lebanon, Pennsylvania|Lebanon]], and [[Lancaster, Pennsylvania|Lancaster]] to [[York, Pennsylvania|York]] and [[Chambersburg, Pennsylvania|Chambersburg]]. Smaller enclaves include  Pennsylvania Dutch-speaking areas in [[New York (state)|New York]], [[Delaware]], [[Maryland]], [[Ohio]], [[West Virginia]], [[North Carolina]], [[Indiana]], [[Illinois]], [[Wisconsin]], [[Virginia]], and the Canadian province of [[Ontario]].<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3f2V8ZZeYVEC&q=Nolt+Pennsylvania |page=13 |title=Foreigners in their own land: Pennsylvania Germans in the early republic |author=Steven M. Nolt|date=March 2008 |publisher=Pennsylvania State University Press |isbn=9780271034447 }}</ref><ref name="markllouden">{{cite book |title=Pennsylvania Dutch: The Story of an American Language|author=Mark L. Louden|year=2016|publisher=JHU Press|location=United States of America|pages=404}}</ref><ref name="davidwguth">{{cite book |title=Bridging the Chesapeake, A 'Fool Idea' That Unified Maryland|author=David W. Guth|year=2017|publisher=Archway Publishing|page=426}}</ref>