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Dover (/ ˈ d oʊ v ər / DOH-vər) is the capital and the second-most populous city of the U.S. state of Delaware. [3] It is also the county seat of Kent County and the principal city of the Dover metropolitan statistical area, which encompasses all of Kent County and is part of the Philadelphia–Wilmington–Camden, PA–NJ–DE–MD, combined statistical area.
Delaware has a "Legislative Hall". The State of Alabama has a State Capitol, but the Legislature has, since 1985, met in the State House. A capitol typically contains the meeting place for its state's legislature and offices for the state's governor, though this is not true for every state.
Twenty-two state capitals have been a capital longer than their state has been a state, since they served as the capital of a predecessor territory, colony, or republic. Boston, Massachusetts, has been a capital city since 1630; it is the oldest continuously running capital in the United States.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 26 January 2025. U.S. state This article is about the U.S. state. For other uses, see Delaware (disambiguation). State in the United States Delaware State Flag Seal Nickname(s): The First State; The Small Wonder; Blue Hen State; The Diamond State Motto: Liberty and Independence Anthem: "Our Delaware ...
Map of the United States showing the state nicknames as hogs. Lithograph by Mackwitz, St. Louis, 1884. The following is a table of U.S. state, federal district and territory nicknames, including officially adopted nicknames and other traditional nicknames for the 50 U.S. states, the U.S. federal district, as well as five U.S. territories.
In 1791, with the expansion of Sussex County to the south and west, the county seat was moved to Georgetown. [6] The county seat of St. Jones (renamed Kent County in 1681 [6]) is at Dover. [6] After 2000, a fourth "Appoquinimink County" was proposed to be carved out of New Castle County. The effort intended to end the zoning restrictions of the ...
Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, "the Nation's Summer Capital", has a sixteenfold increase in population from winter to summer. St. Michaels, Maryland, is a popular tourist destination. Salisbury, Maryland, is the county seat of Wicomico County, the second largest city in the peninsula and the lower peninsula's only urbanized area. It is known as the ...
Map of the United States with Delaware highlighted. Delaware is a state located in the Southern United States.According to the 2016 United States Census estimate, Delaware is the 6th least populous state with 989,948 inhabitants but the 2nd smallest by land area spanning 1,948.54 square miles (5,046.7 km 2) of land. [1]