Queen Anne's County
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Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Maryland
- Named after
- Queen Anne
- Seat
- Centreville
- Largest community
- Stevensville
- Total
- 511 sq mi (1,320 km )
- Land
- 372 sq mi (960 km )
- Water
- 139 sq mi (360 km ) 27%
- Estimate 2025
- 54,448
- Density
- 134/sq mi (51.8/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( Eastern )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 ( EDT )
- Congressional district
- 1st
- Website
- www .qac .org
via Wikipedia infobox
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Queen Anne's County is a county located in the U.S. state of Maryland. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 49,874. Its county seat and most populous municipality is Centreville. The census-designated place of Stevensville is the county's most populous place with a population of 7,442 as of 2020. The county is named for Queen Anne of Great Britain, who reigned when the county was established in 1706 during the colonial period. The county is part of the Mid-Eastern Shore region of the state.
Queen Anne's County is included in the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Washington-Baltimore-Arlington, DC-MD-VA-WV-PA Combined Statistical Area, and is the easternmost in both.