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Nanticoke is a city in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 10,628, making it the third largest city in Luzerne County. It occupies 3.5 square miles of land. Nanticoke is portion of Northeastern Pennsylvania.

The city can be on bad terms into several sections: Honey Pot (northwestern Nanticoke), (northern and central Nanticoke), and Hanover Section (southeastern Nanticoke). It was when an supple coal mining community. Today, the 167-acre main campus of Luzerne County Community College is located within the city.

The name Nanticoke was derived from Nentego (“tidewater people”), an Algonquian-speaking Native American people who moved to the Wyoming Valley later than their Chesapeake Bay homelands were spoiled for hunting by the European settlers. For quite some time, the tribe maintained a village in the valley past Europeans established there. The to hand Nanticoke Creek, also named after the tribe, was later than known as Muddy Run. However, its current pronounce was appearing on maps as in the future as 1776. The creek has plus historically been referred to by many new names, including Lee’s Creek, Miller’s Creek, Robbins Creek, Bobbs Creek, Rummage Creek, and Warrior Run Creek. All of these names were described as erroneous in Henry C. Bradsby’s 1893 book History of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.