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Sideling Hill Road Cut, a man-made mountain pass on Interstate 68/U.S. Route 40 near Hancock, Maryland An enlargeable map of Maryland's 23 counties and one independent city. Western Maryland, also known as the Maryland panhandle or Mountain Maryland, [1] is the portion of the U.S. state of Maryland that typically consists of Frederick ...
The most recent county formation in Maryland occurred in 1872 when Garrett County was split from Allegany County. [2] However, there have been numerous changes to county borders since that time, most recently when portions of the city of Takoma Park that had previously been part of Prince George's County were absorbed into Montgomery County in 1997.
Map of the United States with Maryland highlighted. Maryland is a state located in the Southern United States. [1] As of the 2020 United States census, Maryland is the 18th-most populous state with 6,177,224 inhabitants and the ninth-smallest by land area, spanning 9,707.24 square miles (25,141.6 km 2) of land. [2]
Maryland, Missouri and Nevada are each composed entirely of counties, except that each also has exactly one independent city: Baltimore, St. Louis, and Carson City, respectively. The District of Columbia is a single federal district that is not part of any state or county. All of the above 136 exceptional cases are reckoned as county equivalents.
Location of the state of Maryland in the United States of America An enlargeable map of the 23 counties and 1 independent city of the state of Maryland. Prehistory of Maryland. Indigenous peoples; English Colony of Maryland, 1632–1694 History of slavery in Maryland; Maryland Toleration Act, 1649; English Province of Maryland, 1694–1707
Baltimore (Major airport: adjacent to Baltimore–Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, in Anne Arundel County) Washington, DC; Frederick, Maryland; Annapolis, Maryland; Hagerstown, Maryland
The western part of Maryland (including the present Allegany County) was originally part of Prince George's County when Maryland was formed in 1696. [6] This county included six current counties, and by repeated splitting, new ones were generated: Frederick from Prince George's in 1748; [7] and Montgomery and Washington from Frederick in 1776.
In western Maryland, the higher elevations of Allegany and Garrett counties—including the cities of Cumberland, Frostburg, and Oakland—display more characteristics of the humid continental zone, due in part to elevation. They fall under USDA Hardiness zones 6b and below.