Cape May
Cape May is a resort town in the state of New Jersey, in the United States. It lies at the southernmost point in New Jersey, on the Cape May Peninsula, on the Atlantic Coast.
- Type: Town with 3,810 residents
- Description: city in New Jersey, United States
- Also known as: “Caep May”, “Cape Island”, “Cape May Town”, “Cape May, New Jersey”, and “Cape May, NJ”
- Postal code: 08204
Places of Interest
Highlights include Emlen Physick Estate and Episcopal Church of the Advent/St. John’s Chapel.
Emlen Physick Estate
Museum
Episcopal Church of the Advent/St. John’s Chapel
Church
Photo: WhisperToMe, Public domain.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include West Cape May and Cape May Point.
West Cape May
Village
Photo: WhisperToMe, Public domain.Cape May Point
Village
Photo: WhisperToMe, Public domain.Schellenger Landing
Hamlet
Lower Township is a township in Cape May County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The township, and all of Cape May County, is part of the Ocean City metropolitan statistical area, and is part of the Philadelphia metropolitan area.
Cape May
- Categories: city in New Jersey and locality
- Location: City of Cape May, Cape May County, Jersey Shore, New Jersey, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
38.9334° or 38° 56′ 0″ north
Longitude
-74.9214° or 74° 55′ 17″ west
Population
3,810
Elevation
7 feet (2 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US CGF
Open location code
87C7W3MH+9C
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Cape May” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كابي ماي”
- Basque: “Cape May”
- Bulgarian: “Кейп Мей”
- Catalan: “Cape May”
- Catalan: “City of Cape May”
- Cebuano: “Cape May”
- Chechen: “Кеп-Мей”
- Chinese: “Cape May”
- Chinese: “五月岬”
- Chinese: “开普梅”
- Chinese: “開普梅”
- Czech: “Cape May”
- Dagbani: “Cape May”
- Dutch: “Cape May”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كيب ماى”
- French: “Cape May”
- German: “Cape May”
- Greek: “Κέιπ Μέι”
- Haitian: “Cape May, New Jersey”
- Haitian: “Cape May”
- Hebrew: “קייפ מיי”
- Interlingua: “Cape May”
- Irish: “Cape May, New Jersey”
- Irish: “Cape May”
- Italian: “Cape May City”
- Italian: “Cape May”
- Italian: “City of Cape May”
- Japanese: “ケープ・メイ”
- Japanese: “ケープメイ (ニュージャージー州)”
- Kazakh: “Кэйп Мэй”
- Kirghiz: “Кэйп Мэй”
- Korean: “케이프 메이”
- Korean: “케이프메이”
- Ladin: “Cape May”
- Mazanderani: “کیپ می (نیوجرسی)”
- Mazanderani: “کیپ می”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Cape May”
- Neapolitan: “Cape May”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Cape May”
- Norwegian: “Cape May”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Mæġennæssburh”
- Panjabi: “ਕੇਪ ਮੇ”
- Persian: “کیپ می، نیوجرسی”
- Persian: “کیپ می”
- Polish: “Cape May”
- Portuguese: “Cape May”
- Romanian: “Cape May”
- Russian: “Кейп-Мей”
- Sardinian: “Cape May, New Jersey”
- Sardinian: “Cape May”
- Serbian: “Кејп Меј”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Cape May, New Jersey”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Cape May”
- Silesian: “Cape May”
- Slovak: “Cape May”
- South Azerbaijani: “کئیپ مای، نیوجرسی”
- Spanish: “Cape May (Nueva Jersey)”
- Spanish: “Cape May”
- Swedish: “Cape May”
- Tamil: “கேப் மே, நியூ செர்சி”
- Tamil: “கேப் மே”
- Tatar: “Кеп-Мей”
- Turkish: “Cape May, New Jersey”
- Turkish: “Cape May”
- Ukrainian: “Кейп-Мей”
- Ukrainian: “Кеп-Мей”
- Urdu: “کیپ مے، نیو جرسی”
- Uzbek: “Cape May”
- Waray (Philippines): “Cape May, New Jersey”
- Waray (Philippines): “Cape May”
- Welsh: “Cape May, New Jersey”
- Welsh: “Cape May”
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