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The Lehigh Valley, known officially by the United States Census Bureau as the Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ metropolitan area and referred to locally as The Valley and A-B-E, is a metropolitan region consisting of Lehigh, Northampton and Carbon counties in eastern Pennsylvania and Warren county on the western edge of New Jersey, in the United States.

The Lehigh Valley takes its name from the Lehigh River, a tributary of the Delaware River, which is a 109 mi river located in eastern Pennsylvania, in the United States. "Lehigh" is an Anglicization of the Lenape name for the river, Lechewuekink, meaning "where there are forks". In Carbon County, the Lehigh River flows through the Lehigh Gorge State Park to Jim Thorpe, and then southeast, past Lehighton. Southeast of Lehighton, it passes through Blue Mountain in a narrow opening called the Lehigh Gap.

From the Lehigh Gap, the river flows southeast to Allentown, where it is joined by Little Lehigh Creek, then northeast past Bethlehem, where it joins the Delaware River in Easton, along Pennsylvania's border with New Jersey.