A map of the Delmarva Peninsula map with the Eastern Shore of Virginia (in yellow), the Eastern Shore of Maryland (in orange), and part of Delaware (also in yellow)
The Delmarva Peninsula, or simply Delmarva, is a large peninsula on the East Coast of the United States, occupied by the vast 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.
The population of the twelve counties entirety on the peninsula totals approximately 818,000 people as of the 2020 census.
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the DelmarvaPeninsula in south Delaware and southeastern Maryland, United States. As of 2000, it is the largest contiguous forest on the Delmarva Peninsula...
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abducted hundreds of free black people and fugitive slaves, along the DelmarvaPeninsula, across multiple state lines to sell into slavery in southern states...
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cottonwood. A subspecies native to several eastern U.S. states is the DelmarvaPeninsula fox squirrel (S. n. cinereus). Fox squirrels are most abundant in...
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(not streetcar or rapid transit) lines that have been built in the DelmarvaPeninsula south of the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad, and...
(60 km) long barrier island located off the eastern coast of the DelmarvaPeninsula facing the Atlantic Ocean. The northern two-thirds of the island is...
the Chesapeake Bay. The 70-mile-long (110 km) region is part of the DelmarvaPeninsula. Its population was 45,695 as of 2020. Accomac Shire was established...
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