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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(not streetcar or rapid transit) lines that have been built in the DelmarvaPeninsula south of the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad, and...
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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(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...