The State of New
Jersey
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Geography
• Total area 13 204 km2
– Land area 11 936.5 km2
– Water area 1 125.8 km2
– Persons per square mile 1 826 persons/km2
– 21 counties:
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~800 lakes and ponds.
~100 rivers and creeks.
~55,150 km of highways and roads
Highest Elevation: 550 m (High Point)
Lowest Elevation: 0 m (Atlantic Ocean)
People
• Population, 2009 estimate 8,707,739.
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White people 75.8%
Black people 14.5%
Asian people 7.8%
American Indian and Alaska Native people 0.4%
Symbols
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State Seal- It contains five symbols:
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Helmet and Horse Head
Liberty
Ceres
Shield
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Scroll- The state's motto "Liberty and Prosperity"
State Flag
State Flower - The Violet
State Bird - The Eastern Goldfinch
State Tree - The Red Oak
State Bug - The Honeybee
• State Animal - The Horse
• State Fish- The Brook Trout
• State Shell- The Knobbed Whelk
• State Ship- The A.J. Meerwald
• State Fruit- The Blueberry
• State Dinosaur- Hadrosaurus foulkii
• State Dance- Square Dance
Do you know that...
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3,064,645 households
314 public libraries.
1,866 public elementary schools.
398 public secondary schools.
132 private high schools.
41 colleges.
Cities
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Trenton- The capital city of New Jersey (Population: 85,403)
Newark- The biggest city in NJ (Population: 273,546)
Jersey City
Paterson
Elizabeth
A Short History of New Jersey
• The first people were Delaware Indians.
• Lived in parts of Delaware, New Jersey, and eastern
Pennsylvania.
• 1524- Verrazano explores the Jersey coast.
• There were more ethnics than the other colonies.
• 1660- Bergen, now Jersey City, becomes the first permanent
town in New Jersey
• 1756- Princeton University is established
• 1776- N.J.'s first newspaper, the New Jersey Gazette, issues its
first edition
• 1787- New Jersey became the third state of the U.S.
Constitution.
A Short History of New Jersey
• In 1790, Trenton officially became the state capital of New
Jersey.
• William Livingston became New Jersey's first state
governor.
• Trenton produced clay products, iron, and steel.
• Most of the immigrants came from Ireland and Germany.
Later, from Italy and from Eastern Europe.
• On 3rd of May in 1919, the first passenger flight in
American history was flown from New York to Atlantic City.
• 1921- The first Miss America Pageant is held
Things You Might not Know
• 1846- The first organized baseball game in Hoboken in NJ
• New Jersey- the "Pathway of the Revolution." Over 100 battles were
fought on New Jersey soil.
• New Jersey has more horses per sq.km than any other state.
• The first state to sign the Bill of Rights.
• 1896- The first professional basketball game in Trenton in NJ.
• 204.4 km of coastline on the Atlantic Ocean.
• More than 9,800 farms covering ~3197 sq.km of farmland.
• More scientists and engineers per sq.mi. than anywhere else in the
world.
• Gay couples have the same legal rights as heterosexual couples.
• Princeton astronomer, Alicia Soderberg, was the first person who
saw a supernova.
• More millionaire residents than any other state in the U.S.
• The first nearly complete dinosaur fossil is found in Haddonfield
• Roselle is the first U.S. town to be lighted by electricity.
• Estonian president Toomas Hendrik Ilves has graduated Leonia High
School.
Famous people in NJ
Entertainers:
• Anne Hathaway
• John Travolta
• Bruce Willis
• Meryl Streep
Culture:
• James Fenimore Cooper – (1789 - 1851)
• Martha Stewart
Music:
• Jon Bon Jovi
• Akon
• Lauryn Hill
• Whitney Houston
• Jonas Brothers (Kevin, Joe, Nick)
• Frank Sinatra – (1915 -1998)
Sports:
• Tim Howard
• Carl Lewis
• Dean Randazzo
Science:
• Thomas A. Edison – (1847- 1931)
• Albert Einstein – (1879- 1955)
State Holidays
• Martin Luther King Jr. Day
• Lincoln's Birthday
• Presidents Day
• Good Friday
• Memorial Day
• Independence Day
• Labor Day
• Columbus Day
• Election Day
• Veteran's Day
• Thanksgiving Day
• Christmas Day
Literature
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http://www.state.nj.us/
http://www.famousnewjerseyans.com/index.html
http://www.theus50.com/newjersey/
“History of the U.S.”
“The new book of knowledge”
“Encyclopædia Britannica”
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