Place:New Tripoli, Lehigh, Pennsylvania, United States

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NameNew Tripoli
TypeInhabited place
Coordinates40.667°N 75.75°W
Located inLehigh, Pennsylvania, United States
Contained Places
Cemetery
Ebenezer Union Cemetery
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New Tripoli is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Lynn Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. As of the 2010 census the population was 898.[1]

New Tripoli is part of the Lehigh Valley, which has a population of 861,899 and is the 68th most populated metropolitan area in the U.S. as of the 2020 census.

The name comes from Tripoli in Libya, in commemoration of the fighting in the Barbary Wars. The pronunciation of New Tripoli is with the stress on "PO", as many non-natives make the mistake of stressing the first syllable which will often be corrected by natives.

The New Tripoli ZIP code is 18066 and it is in area code 610, exchange 298.

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