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Delaware (/ˈdɛləwɛər/ ^ⓘ DEL-ə-wair) is a state in the northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. It borders Maryland to its south and west, Pennsylvania to its north, New Jersey to its northeast, and the Atlantic Ocean to its east. The state's name derives from the adjacent Delaware Bay, which in turn was named after Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, an English nobleman and the Colony of Virginia's first colonial-era governor.

Delaware occupies the northeastern portion of the Delmarva Peninsula, and some islands and territory within the Delaware River. It is the 2nd smallest and 6th least populous state, but also the 6th most densely populated. Delaware's most populous city is Wilmington, and the state's capital is Dover, the 2nd most populous city in Delaware. The state is divided into three counties, the fewest number of counties of any of the 50 U.S. states; from north to south, the three counties are: New Castle County, Kent County, and Sussex County.

The southern two counties, Kent and Sussex counties, historically have been predominantly agrarian economies. New Castle is more urbanized and is considered part of the Delaware Valley metropolitan statistical area that surrounds and includes Philadelphia, the nation's 6th most populous city. Delaware is considered part of the Southern United States by the U.S. Census Bureau, but the state's geography, culture, and history are a hybrid of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the country. (Full article...)

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Detail of a 1777 military map. Cooch's Bridge is just to the right of Iron Hill; Philadelphia is off to the northeast.

The Battle of Cooch's Bridge, also known as the Battle of Iron Hill, was a battle fought on September 3, 1777, between the Continental Army and American militia and primarily German soldiers serving alongside the British Army during the American Revolutionary War. It was the only significant military action during the war on the soil of Delaware (though there were also naval engagements off the state's coast), and it took place about a week before the major Battle of Brandywine. Some traditions claim this as the first battle which saw the U.S. flag.

After landing in Maryland on August 25 as part of a campaign to capture Philadelphia, the seat of the Continental Congress, British and German forces under the overall command of General William Howe began to move north. Their advance was monitored by a light infantry corps of Continental Army and militia forces that had based itself at Cooch's Bridge, near Newark, Delaware. On September 3, German troops leading the British advance were met by musket fire from the U.S. light infantry in the woods on either side of the road leading toward Cooch's Bridge. Calling up reinforcements, they flushed the Americans out and drove them across the bridge. (Full article...)

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New Castle County is the northernmost of the three counties of the U.S. state of Delaware (New Castle, Kent, and Sussex). As of the 2020 census, the population was 570,719, making it the most populous county in Delaware, with nearly 60% of the state's population of 989,948. The county seat is Wilmington, which is also the state's most populous city.

New Castle County is included in the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD Metropolitan Statistical Area. The county is named after William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle (c. 1593–1676). (Full article...)

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Image 1The population density map for Delaware (from Delaware)
Image 2Wilmington Station in Wilmington (from Delaware)
Image 3Sunset in Woodbrook, Delaware (from Delaware)
Image 4Seaford (from Delaware)
Image 5A two-shilling, six-pence banknote issued by Delaware in 1777 (from Delaware)
Image 6Dover (from Delaware)
Image 7Map of Delaware (from Delaware)
Image 8Fort Delaware State Park on Pea Patch Island, a popular spot during the spring and summer; a ferry takes visitors to the fort from nearby Delaware City. (from Delaware)
Image 9The population density map for Delaware (from Delaware)
Image 10The University of Delaware in Newark (from Delaware)
Image 11NASCAR racing at Dover Motor Speedway in Dover (from Delaware)
Image 12Newark (from Delaware)
Image 13The Cape May–Lewes Ferry (from Delaware)
Image 14The Blackbird Pond on the Blackbird State Forest Meadows Tract in New Castle County, Delaware (from Delaware)
Image 15Fort Delaware State Park on Pea Patch Island, a popular spot during the spring and summer; a ferry takes visitors to the fort from nearby Delaware City. (from Delaware)
Image 16Seaford (from Delaware)
Image 17A field north of Fox Den Road along the Lenape Trail in Middle Run Valley Natural Area (from Delaware)
Image 18Ethnic origins in Delaware (from Delaware)
Image 19NASCAR racing at Dover Motor Speedway in Dover (from Delaware)
Image 20The Delaware General Assembly meets in Delaware Legislative Hall in Dover. (from Delaware)
Image 21Rehoboth Beach, a popular vacation spot during the summer months (from Delaware)
Image 22The University of Delaware in Newark (from Delaware)
Image 23Delaware Route 1 (DE 1) is a partial toll road linking Fenwick Island and Wilmington. (from Delaware)
Image 24Joe Biden, the 46th president of the United States and a U.S. senator from Delaware from 1973 to 2009 (from Delaware)
Image 25Picking Peaches in Delaware, an illustration in an 1878 issue of Harper's Weekly (from Delaware)
Image 26Delaware Route 1 (DE 1) is a partial toll road linking Fenwick Island and Wilmington. (from Delaware)
Image 27The Köppen climate classification for Delaware (from Delaware)
Image 28The Köppen climate classification for Delaware (from Delaware)
Image 29Sunset in Woodbrook, Delaware (from Delaware)
Image 30Wilmington (from Delaware)
Image 31Delaware was named for Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, an English merchant and governor of the Colony of Virginia from 1610 to 1618. (from History of Delaware)
Image 32Wilmington (from Delaware)
Image 33Map of Delaware (from Delaware)
Image 34The Twelve-Mile Circle (from Delaware)
Image 35Picking Peaches in Delaware, an illustration in an 1878 issue of Harper's Weekly (from Delaware)
Image 36A field north of Fox Den Road along the Lenape Trail in Middle Run Valley Natural Area (from Delaware)
Image 37Nautical chart of the Dutch colony Zwaanendael and Godyn's Bay (Delaware Bay), 1639 (from History of Delaware)
Image 38Rehoboth Beach, a popular vacation spot during the summer months (from Delaware)
Image 39Ethnic origins in Delaware (from Delaware)
Image 40The Twelve-Mile Circle (from Delaware)
Image 41The Delaware General Assembly meets in Delaware Legislative Hall in Dover. (from Delaware)
Image 42Dover (from Delaware)
Image 43The Blackbird Pond on the Blackbird State Forest Meadows Tract in New Castle County, Delaware (from Delaware)
Image 44Fort Delaware, painted circa 1870 by Seth Eastman. (from History of Delaware)
Image 45Newark (from Delaware)
Image 46Joe Biden, the 46th president of the United States and a U.S. senator from Delaware from 1973 to 2009 (from Delaware)
Image 47Wilmington Station in Wilmington (from Delaware)
Image 48The Cape May–Lewes Ferry (from Delaware)
Image 49A two-shilling, six-pence banknote issued by Delaware in 1777 (from Delaware)
Image 50Delaware's license plate design, introduced in 1959, is the longest-running one in U.S. history. (from Delaware)
Image 51Delaware's license plate design, introduced in 1959, is the longest-running one in U.S. history. (from Delaware)

Did you know -

... that Delaware weekly newspaper The Faulkland Quiz was founded, edited and published by an 18-year-old?
... that The Breakwater Light was the first newspaper in the first town in the first state?
... that the only purpose of the Delaware Straight-Out Truth Teller was to promote a political candidate?
... that Paul Chadick performed so well in the Delaware River Basketball League that a sportswriter said it would "benefit the league if he retired"?
... that Delaware politician Armwell Long was said to have once outranked his close friend, George Washington? (See discussions regarding this hook at Talk:Armwell Long.)
... that Dave Frederick has been referred to as the "Sussex County humorist-teacher-writer-radio-host-philosopher dude"?

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Delaware Route 34 (DE 34), also known as Faulkland Road, was a numbered state highway in New Castle County, Delaware. The route ran from an intersection with unnumbered Duncan Road, just west of DE 41, north of Prices Corner east to DE 100 near Elsmere. Along the way, the route intersected DE 41 and DE 141 as it passed through suburban areas to the west of Wilmington. The road was paved in the 1930s and designated DE 34 in 1974. The DE 34 designation was removed from Faulkland Road in 2019. (Full article...)

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Largest cities

Largest cities or towns in Delaware 2018 United States Census Bureau Estimate
	Rank	Name	County	Pop.
Wilmington Dover	1	Wilmington	New Castle	70,635	Newark Middletown
	2	Dover	Kent	38,079
	3	Newark	New Castle	33,673
	4	Middletown	New Castle	22,582
	5	Smyrna	New Castle/Kent	11,580
	6	Milford	Kent/Sussex	11,353
	7	Seaford	Sussex	7,861
	8	Georgetown	Sussex	7,427
	9	Elsmere	New Castle	5,981
	10	New Castle	New Castle	5,529

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