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At 7,354 square miles (19,050 km 2 ), New Jersey is the fifth-smallest state in land area, but with close to 9.3 million residents as of the 2020 United States census, its highest decennial count ever, it ranks 11th in population. The state capital is Trenton, and the state's most populous city is Newark.
The state of New Jersey is ranked as the third smallest state in the United States of America. Its total area of the state is 8,729 square miles (22,610 km 2 ), of which 1,304 square miles (3,380 km 2) is water, and 7,425 square miles (19,230 km 2) is land. New Jersey spans 70 miles (110 km) at its widest, and 166 miles (267 km) in length.
United States Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776. Treaty of Paris, September 3, 1783. State of New Jersey since 1776. Eleventh state to ratify the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, signed November 26, 1778. Third State to ratify the Constitution of the United States of America on December 18, 1787.
There are 21 counties in the U.S. state of New Jersey. These counties together contain 564 municipalities, or administrative entities composed of clearly defined territory; 252 boroughs, 52 cities, 15 towns, 241 townships, and 4 villages. [1] In New Jersey, a county is a local level of government between the state and municipalities.
New Jersey is a state located in the Northeastern United States. According to the 2020 United States Census , New Jersey is the 11th most populous state with 9,288,994 inhabitants but the fifth smallest by land area spanning 7,354.76 square miles (19,048.7 km 2 ). [1]
New Jersey was the only British colony to permit the establishment of two colleges in the colonial period. Princeton University, chartered in 1746 as the College of New Jersey, and Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, chartered on November 10, 1766, as Queen's College, were two of nine colleges founded before the American Revolution.
New Jersey's state park system includes properties as small as the 32-acre (0.13 km 2) Barnegat Lighthouse State Park and as large as the 115,000-acre (470 km 2) Wharton State Forest. The state park system comprises 430,928 acres (1,743.90 km 2 )—roughly 7.7% of New Jersey's land area—and serves over 17.8 million annual visitors.
The Province of New Jersey, Divided into East and West, commonly called The Jerseys, 1777 map by William Faden. The Provincial Congress of New Jersey was a transitional governing body of the Province of New Jersey in the early part of the American Revolution. It first met in 1775 with representatives from all New Jersey's thirteen counties, to ...