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Dover
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city in and county seat of Kent County, Delaware, United States, and capital city of Delaware
Dover is the capital city of Delaware and serves as the county seat of Kent County. It matters as the center of state government and administration for Delaware.
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- Instance of
- county seat
- Official name
- Dover
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Kent County
- Population
- 39403
- Area
- 60.712152
- Elevation
- 11
- Time zone
- Eastern Time Zone
- Capital of
- Kent County
- Shares border with
- Wyoming
- Official website
- www.cityofdover.com
- Image
- Dover Delaware.jpg
- Households
- 14740
- Dialing code
- 302
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- category of associated people
- Category:People from Dover, Delaware
- Commons category
- Dover, Delaware
- topic's main category
- Category:Dover, Delaware
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Dover, Delaware
- inception
- 1683-00-00
- postal code
- 19906
- twinned administrative body
- Iwanuma
- water as percent of area
- 1.2524
- different from
- Dover
- per capita income
- 26419
- hashtag
- Dover
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Encyclopedic overview
Dover (/ˈdoʊvər/ DOH-vər) is the capital and the second-most populous city of the U.S. state of Delaware, after Wilmington. 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. It is located on the St. Jones River in the Delaware River coastal plain. It was named by William Penn for Dover in Kent, England (for which Kent County is named). As of 2024, its population was estimated as 40,191.
Etymology
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