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38°30′N 75°40′W / 38.500°N 75.667°W / 38.500; -75.667

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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Delmarva Peninsula

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/ 38.500°N 75.667°W / 38.500; -75.667 The Delmarva Peninsula, or simply Delmarva, is a large peninsula on the East Coast of the United States, occupied...

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Delmarva Shorebirds

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Salisbury and renamed it the Delmarva Shorebirds. The name "Shorebirds" refers to the marine waterfowl of the Delmarva Peninsula. The team name was chosen...

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List of peninsulas

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Cape Sable Maryland shares the Delmarva Peninsula east of Chesapeake Bay with Delaware and Virginia. St. Mary's Peninsula is defined by the Patuxent River...

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Delmarva Central Railroad

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Carload Express that operates 188 miles (303 km) of track on the Delmarva Peninsula in the states of Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia. The railroad operates...

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Maryland

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various official and unofficial geographic regions. For example, the Delmarva Peninsula is composed of the Eastern Shore counties of Maryland, the entire...

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Scrapple

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Maryland, Delaware, Southern New York, and the Delmarva Peninsula. Its popularity on the Delmarva Peninsula is celebrated the second weekend of October during...

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Delmarva Power

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Delmarva Power is an energy company that provides electricity and natural gas to customers on portions of the Delmarva Peninsula in the states of Delaware...

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Delaware

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colonial-era governor. Delaware occupies the northeastern portion of the Delmarva Peninsula, and some islands and territory within the Delaware River. It is the...

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Connected farm

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"big house, little house, colonnade and kitchen" is unique to the Delmarva Peninsula. The first section or "little house" was usually a small 1½-story...

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Delmarva fox squirrel

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subspecies of the fox squirrel. Its historical range included the Delmarva Peninsula, southeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey, but its natural...

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Area codes 757 and 948

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portion of the Delmarva Peninsula, and the vast majority of the Hampton Roads metropolitan area, which includes the Virginia Peninsula with Newport News...

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Eastern Shore of Maryland

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normally included in the region. The Eastern Shore is part of the larger Delmarva Peninsula that Maryland shares with Delaware and Virginia. As of the 2020 census...

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List of regions of the United States

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Plateau Columbia Basin Contiguous United States The Dakotas Deep South Delmarva Peninsula Dixie Dixie Alley Driftless Area East Coast Eastern United States...

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Effects of Hurricane Isabel in Virginia

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The effects of Hurricane Isabel in Virginia proved to be the costliest disaster in the history of Virginia. Hurricane Isabel formed from a tropical wave...

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Fox squirrel

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cottonwood. A subspecies native to several eastern U.S. states is the Delmarva Peninsula fox squirrel (S. n. cinereus). Fox squirrels are most abundant in...

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Great Cypress Swamp

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the Delmarva Peninsula 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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Virginia Barrier Islands

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marshy tidal bays along the entire coast of the Virginia end of the Delmarva Peninsula. Several of these islands were once significantly larger, covered...

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List of railroad lines in the Delmarva Peninsula

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

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Eastern Shore of Virginia

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the Chesapeake Bay. The 70-mile-long (110 km) region is part of the Delmarva Peninsula. Its population was 45,695 as of 2020. Accomac Shire was established...

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Patty Cannon

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abducted hundreds of free black people and fugitive slaves, along the Delmarva Peninsula, across multiple state lines to sell into slavery in southern states...

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Bay Coast Railroad

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December 2016, when the Delmarva Central Railroad leased 162 miles (261 km) of Norfolk Southern track on the Delmarva peninsula. Construction of a rail...

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Older Southern American English

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same is true for the very similar dialect area of the Delmarva (Delaware–Maryland–Virginia) Peninsula and neighboring islands in the Chesapeake Bay, such...

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Tomalley

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tomalley is yellow or yellow-green in color. In Maryland and on the Delmarva Peninsula, the hepatopancreas of the blue crab is called the "muster" or "mustard"...

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Assateague Island

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(60 km) long barrier island located off the eastern coast of the Delmarva Peninsula facing the Atlantic Ocean. The northern two-thirds of the island is...

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