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is the capital of Delaware. It is in the central part of the state in Kent County, approximately midway between and . is home to several historic sites and recreational areas are nearby.

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is the largest city in Delaware, though still small by U.S. standards with a population of only 70,000. Due to the state's business-friendly laws, is something of a center for businesses, with an incredible number of American corporations incorporated in the city.

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is a city in , United States. It is located 12 miles west-southwest of . According to the 2010 census, the population of the city is 31,454.

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is a city in , United States. The city is located six miles south of and is situated on the .

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is a town of 7,000 people in Delaware. It is known for its unusual town layout and for its many historic buildings. It is also the county seat for Sussex County.

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is a city in Delaware. is located along the Delaware Bay in Sussex County near the Atlantic Ocean.

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is a city of 1,100 people in Delaware. It is a beach town along the Atlantic Ocean in Sussex County.

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is a town in Kent County, Delaware. It is nestled between the towns Rising Sun and Little Heaven. is south of Dover, the state capital, and is about a mile away from the St.

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is in the US state of Delaware. It is a beach town located along the Atlantic Ocean in Sussex County. In addition to beaches along the Atlantic Ocean, is home to several nightclubs and restaurants along the bay, attracting famous acts and bands during the summer months.

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is a town in , United States. It is part of the Dover metropolitan area. The population was 3,715 in 2020.

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is a town in , United States. The population was 3,865 at the time of the 2020 census. is part of the .

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is a beach town in Sussex County, Delaware located north of , just over the Delaware border. The town is part of Delaware's beach resort area.

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is a town in , Delaware, United States. According to the 2020 census, the population is 2,568. It is part of the .

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is a city in Delaware. It is a beach town located along the Atlantic Ocean in Sussex County.

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, is a small, rapidly growing town in northern New Castle County, right on the border with Pennsylvania. Centered between two major highways, Route 7, or Limestone Road, and Route 41, Lancaster Pike, offers a quiet reprieve for travelers and residents alike.

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is a town in northern Delaware. A largely blue-collar suburb of , its borders are not clearly defined; it is generally accepted to have about 10,000 residents.

Delaware

Latitude of center
38.692° or 38° 41′ 31″ north
Longitude of center
-75.4013° or 75° 24′ 5″ west
Population
936,000
Elevation
30 feet (9 metres)
Abbreviation
“DE”
Open­Street­Map ID
node 316945699
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
4142224
Wiki­data ID
Q1393
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zhuang—“Delaware” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Delaware”
  • Albanian: “Delaware”
  • Amharic: “ዴላዌር”
  • Arabic: “ديلاوير”
  • Aragonese: “Delaware”
  • Armenian: “Դելավեր”
  • Arpitan: “Delaware”
  • Asturian: “Delaware”
  • Aymara: “Delaware suyu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Delaver”
  • Balinese: “Délaware”
  • Bashkir: “Делавэр”
  • Basque: “Delaware”
  • Bavarian: “Delaware”
  • Belarusian: “Дэлавэр”
  • Belarusian: “Дэлаўэр”
  • Bengali: “ডেলাওয়্যার”
  • Betawi: “Délawara”
  • Bhojpuri: “डेलावेर”
  • Bishnupriya: “ডেলাওয়্যার”
  • Bislama: “Delaware”
  • Bosnian: “Delaware”
  • Breton: “Delaware”
  • Bulgarian: “Делауеър”
  • Burmese: “ဒယ်လာဝဲပြည်နယ်”
  • Catalan: “Delaware”
  • Cebuano: “Delaware”
  • Central Bikol: “Delaware”
  • Central Kurdish: “دەلاوێر”
  • Central Kurdish: “دێلاوێر”
  • Central Kurdish: “دێلەوەیر”
  • Chavacano: “Delaware”
  • Chechen: “Делавэр”
  • Cherokee: “ᏕᎳᏪᎢ”
  • Cheyenne: “Delaware”
  • Chinese: “Delaware”
  • Chinese: “德拉瓦州”
  • Chinese: “特拉华州 / 德拉瓦州 / 特拉華州”
  • Chinese: “特拉华州”
  • Chinese: “特拉華州”
  • Chuvash: “Делавэр”
  • Cornish: “Delaware”
  • Corsican: “Delaware”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Delaver”
  • Croatian: “Delaware”
  • Czech: “Delaware”
  • Czech: “State of Delaware”
  • Dagbani: “Delaware”
  • Danish: “Delaware”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Delaware”
  • Dutch: “DE”
  • Dutch: “Delaware”
  • Eastern Mari: “Делавэр”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ديلاوير”
  • Esperanto: “DE”
  • Esperanto: “Delavario”
  • Esperanto: “Delavaro”
  • Esperanto: “Ŝtato Delavaro”
  • Estonian: “Delaware”
  • Faroese: “Delaware”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Delaware”
  • Finnish: “Delaware”
  • French: “Delaware”
  • Gagauz: “Delaware”
  • Galician: “Delaware”
  • Georgian: “დელავერი”
  • Georgian: “დელავერის შტატი”
  • German: “Delaware”
  • Gilaki: “دلاوئر”
  • Gothic: “𐌳𐌰𐌹𐌻𐌰𐍅𐌰𐌹𐍂”
  • Greek: “Ντέλαγουερ”
  • Guarani: “Delaware”
  • Gujarati: “ડેલાવેર”
  • Haitian: “Delawè”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Delaware”
  • Hausa: “Delaware”
  • Hawaiian: “Kelawea”
  • Hebrew: “דלאוור”
  • Hebrew: “דלוור”
  • Hindi: “डेलावेयर”
  • Hungarian: “Delaware”
  • Icelandic: “Delaware”
  • Ido: “Delaware”
  • Igbo: “Déláwè”
  • Iloko: “Delaware”
  • Inari Sami: “Delaware”
  • Indonesian: “Delaware”
  • Interlingua: “Delaware”
  • Interlingue: “Delaware”
  • Inupiaq: “Delauaare”
  • Inupiaq: “Tialaviaraq”
  • Irish: “Delaware”
  • Italian: “Delaware”
  • Japanese: “デラウェア州”
  • Javanese: “Delaware”
  • Kabiyè: “Telawɛɛrɩ”
  • Kabyle: “Delaware”
  • Kalmyk: “Деләәвр”
  • Kannada: “ಡೆಲಾವೇರ್”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Делавэр”
  • Kazakh: “Делавэр”
  • Kirghiz: “Делавэр”
  • Korean: “델라웨어”
  • Korean: “델라웨어주”
  • Kurdish: “Delaware”
  • Ladin: “Delaware”
  • Ladino: “Delaware”
  • Latin: “DE”
  • Latin: “Delavaria”
  • Latvian: “Delavēra”
  • Ligurian: “Delaware”
  • Limburgan: “Delaware”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Delaware”
  • Literary Chinese: “德拉瓦州”
  • Lithuanian: “Delaveras”
  • Lombard: “Delaware”
  • Low German: “Delaware”
  • Luxembourgish: “Delaware”
  • Macedonian: “Делавер”
  • Maithili: “डेलावेयर”
  • Malagasy: “Delaware”
  • Malay: “Delaware”
  • Malayalam: “ഡെലവെയർ”
  • Manipuri: “ꯗꯦꯂꯥꯋꯦꯔ”
  • Manx: “Delaware”
  • Maori: “Delaware”
  • Maori: “Reraware”
  • Marathi: “डेलावेर”
  • Mazanderani: “دلاویر”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Delaware”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Delaware”
  • Minangkabau: “Delaware”
  • Mingrelian: “დელავერი”
  • Mingrelian: “დელავერიშ შტატი”
  • Mongolian: “Делавар”
  • Mongolian: “Делавэр”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “ديلاوير”
  • Nauru: “Delaware”
  • Navajo: “Déláwee Hahoodzo”
  • Nepali: “डेलावेयर”
  • Newari: “डेलावेर”
  • Newari: “देलावेर”
  • Northern Frisian: “Delaware”
  • Northern Luri: “دلاویر”
  • Northern Sami: “Delaware”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “DE”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Del.”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Delaware”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Delaware”
  • Norwegian: “Delaware”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Delaware”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܕܝܠܐܘܝܪ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Delaware”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Delawarland”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Delaƿarland”
  • Ossetian: “Делавэр”
  • Pali: “डेलावेर”
  • Pampanga: “Delaware”
  • Panjabi: “ਡੇਲਾਵੇਅਰ”
  • Papiamento: “Delaware”
  • Persian: “دلاور”
  • Persian: “دلاویر”
  • Picard: “Delaware”
  • Piemontese: “Delaware”
  • Polish: “DE, US”
  • Polish: “DE”
  • Polish: “Delaware, United States”
  • Polish: “Delaware”
  • Polish: “Lenape”
  • Polish: “State of Delaware”
  • Portuguese: “Delauare”
  • Portuguese: “Delaware”
  • Quechua: “Delaware suyu”
  • Romanian: “Delaware”
  • Romansh: “Delaware”
  • Russia Buriat: “Делавэр”
  • Russian: “Делавэр”
  • Samogitian: “Delavers”
  • Sanskrit: “डेलावेर्”
  • Santali: “ᱰᱮᱞᱟᱣᱮᱨ”
  • Sardinian: “Delaware”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Delaware”
  • Scots: “Delaware”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Delaware”
  • Serbian: “Делавер”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Delaver”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Delaware”
  • Sicilian: “Delaware”
  • Silesian: “Delaware”
  • Sindhi: “ڊيلاويئر”
  • Sinhala: “ඩෙලවෙයාර්”
  • Sinhala: “දෙලාවරේ”
  • Skolt Sami: “Delaware”
  • Slovak: “Delaware”
  • Slovenian: “Delaware”
  • Somali: “Delaware”
  • South Azerbaijani: “دلاویر ایالتی”
  • South Azerbaijani: “دلاویر”
  • Spanish: “DE”
  • Spanish: “Delaware (Estados Unidos)”
  • Spanish: “Delaware”
  • Spanish: “El Estado Diamante”
  • Spanish: “El Primer Estado”
  • Spanish: “Estado de Delaware”
  • Spanish: “Estado de la Gallina Azul”
  • Spanish: “La Pequeña Maravilla”
  • Swahili: “Delaware”
  • Swedish: “Delaware”
  • Tagalog: “Delaware”
  • Tajik: “Делавэр”
  • Talysh: “Delaver”
  • Tamil: “டெலவாரே”
  • Tamil: “டெலவெயர்”
  • Tatar: “Делавэр”
  • Telugu: “డెలావేర్”
  • Thai: “รัฐเดลาแวร์”
  • Tibetan: “དྷེའི་ལ་ཝར།”
  • Turkish: “DE”
  • Turkish: “Del.”
  • Turkish: “Delaware eyaleti”
  • Turkish: “Delaware, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri”
  • Turkish: “Delaware”
  • Turkish: “State of Delaware”
  • Turkish: “US-DE”
  • Uighur: “Délawiyer Shitati”
  • Ukrainian: “Делавер”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Delaware”
  • Urdu: “ڈیلاویئر”
  • Uzbek: “Delaver”
  • Venetian: “Delaware”
  • Veps: “Delaver”
  • Vietnamese: “Delaware”
  • Vlaams: “Delaware”
  • Vlax Romani: “Delaware”
  • Volapük: “Delaware”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Delaware”
  • Welsh: “Delaware”
  • Western Frisian: “Delaware”
  • Western Mari: “Делавэр”
  • Western Panjabi: “ڈیلاویئر”
  • Wu Chinese: “特拉华州”
  • Xhosa: “IDelaweri”
  • Yakut: “Делауэр”
  • Yiddish: “דעלעווער”
  • Yoruba: “Delaware”
  • Yue Chinese: “特拉華州”
  • Zeeuws: “Delaware”
  • Zhuang: “Delaware”
  • “Delavers”
  • “Delaware”
  • “ma Telawe”
  • “डेलावेर”

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