Fascinating.
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I am 62% sure that you are from Allentown, Pennsylvania, United States (Lat: 40 / Long: -75)
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Now, 40 N / 75 W is a number I'm quite familiar with, as 40 N latitude is the "average" value used to make a lot of astronomical charts for use in the United States. And 75 W latitude is the "standard meridian" for the Eastern Standard time zone, which means charts that are time related (e.g. what time a particular star will be occulted by the moon) are usually calculated off of that, and you have to add a correction factor if you need the value timed precisely for your location. Since my house, according to MapBlast, is at 39.97 N / 75.28 W, I can almost always use these charts without correction--the adjustment facotrs are usually far less than my margin of error.
Boy, that was boring, sorry.
Anyway, what's fascinating is that they consider this long/lat location to be in Allentown, PA. My house is just west of the Philadelphia city line, which is close to Allentown only in the sense that it's closer to Allentown than to New York City or Chicago. the real location of 40 N /75 W is actually over in New Jersey, near Cinnaminson I believe.