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<p><b>Easton</b> is a city in and the <a href="/pages/w/107892445909958">county seat</a> of <a href="/pages/w/132056113496619">Northampton County, Pennsylvania</a>, United States. The city's population was 26,800 as of the 2010 census. Easton is located at the confluence of the <a href="/pages/w/104122379624668">Delaware River</a> and the <a href="/pages/w/105970849434819">Lehigh River</a>, roughly 55mi north of <a href="/pages/w/106057446092618">Philadelphia</a> and 70mi west of <a href="/pages/w/111979848819624">New York City</a>.</p><p>Easton is the easternmost city in the <a href="/pages/w/113234632024735">Lehigh Valley</a>, a region of 731 square miles (1,893 km2) that is home to more than 800,000 people. Together with <a href="/pages/w/103129393060364">Allentown</a> and <a href="/pages/w/112122412138421">Bethlehem</a>, the Valley embraces the <a href="/pages/w/111393375555204">Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton metropolitan area</a>, including <a href="/pages/w/142381479106458">Lehigh</a>, Northampton, and <a href="/pages/w/141954745816003">Carbon</a> counties within Pennsylvania, and <a href="/pages/w/132116456824206">Warren County</a> in the adjacent state of <a href="/pages/w/108325505857259">New Jersey</a>. Easton is the smallest of the three Lehigh Valley cities, with approximately one-fourth of the population of the largest Lehigh Valley city, Allentown. In turn, this <a href="/pages/w/108526922505499">metropolitan area</a> comprises Pennsylvania's third-largest metropolitan area and the state's largest and most populous contribution to the greater <a href="/pages/w/111295365565519">New York City metropolitan area</a>.</p>