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New Jersey (745 words) |
 | As of the 2000 census, the population of New Jersey is 8,414,350. |
 | New Jersey is also noted for being the most densely populated state in the nation and the wealthiest state in the nation, with a median income of $55,146 a year, according to the 2000 census. |
 | The New Jersey Turnpike is one of the best-known (and most-maligned) roadways in New Jersey. |
| New Jersey: Map, History and Much More from Answers.com (8771 words) |
 | New Jersey's "madness" for "municipal multiplication," notes one recent scholar, could clearly be observed in the colonial partisan politics of many founding town-ships, and is especially evident in the historical balkanization of dozens of large townships that developed along the lower bank of the Raritan. |
 | It is bordered on the north by New York, on the east by the Atlantic Ocean, on the southwest by Delaware, and on the west by Pennsylvania. |
 | New Jersey is bordered on the north and northeast by New York; on the east by the Atlantic Ocean; on the south and southwest by Delaware; and on the west by Pennsylvania. |