Delmarva Peninsula
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peninsula
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Delaware , Maryland , Virginia
- Largest municipalities by population
- Dover , Salisbury
- Total
- 818,000
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- peninsula
- Named after
- Virginia
- Official name
- Delmarva Peninsula
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Virginia
- Image
- Chesapeakelandsat.jpeg
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- Commons category
- Delmarva Peninsula
- located in/on physical feature
- Mid-Atlantic
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Encyclopedic overview
The Delmarva Peninsula, or simply Delmarva, is a peninsula on the East Coast of the United States, occupied by the majority of the state of Delaware and parts of the Eastern Shore of Maryland and Eastern Shore of Virginia.
The peninsula is 170 miles (274 km) long. In width, it ranges from 70 miles (113 km) near its center, to 12 miles (19 km) at the isthmus on its northern edge, to less near its southern tip of Cape Charles. It is bordered by the Chesapeake Bay on the west, Pocomoke Sound on the southwest, and the Delaware River, Delaware Bay, and the Atlantic Ocean on the east.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Delmarva Peninsula” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.