New Jersey

This is the New Jersey state category. New Jersey's capital city is Trenton, and its postal abbreviation is NJ. Other large cities in the state include Atlantic City, Newark, and Paterson. New Jersey entered the Union as the 3rd state, on December 18, 1787. It is the 46th largest state, with an area of 8,215 square miles. New Jersey is located in eastern United States, on the mid-Atlantic coast. Settlement in the area began in the 1620s, when the Dutch founded New Netherland. The British took over the colony in 1664, separating the land between the Hudson and Delaware rivers and naming it New Jersey. Northern New Jersey is in the Appalachian highlands; southeast of this region are Piedmont plains, and the southeastern half of the state is a coastal plain. New Jersey's nickname is the Garden State, and a wide variety of crops are grown. However, New Jersey is densely populated and very industrialized. 

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