Maryland
Maryland is a Mid-Atlantic state in the USA. Nicknamed America in Miniature, Maryland has sea and mountain, urban and rural, historic and modern. It ranges from some of the nation's most densely populated areas around Washington, D.C., to bucolic rural areas…| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Baltimore and Annapolis.
Baltimore
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Slices of American history are around every corner in Baltimore. Maryland's largest city is a gritty old seaport town that's perhaps most famous as the site of Fort McHenry, where, at the height of the War of 1812, the sight of a tattered but defiant American…
Annapolis
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Annapolis is the capital city of the U.S. state of Maryland. Annapolis was a thriving, wealthy town in the 1600s and 1700s. Many of the houses and other buildings from the 1800s remain, leaving a thriving, vibrant historic district with shops and restaurants along the waterfront.
Rockville
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Rockville is a city in Montgomery County, Maryland. It is characterized by rolling hills, historic towns, and high tech industries…
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Capital Region and Central Maryland.
Capital Region
The Capital Region of Maryland consists of the counties near Washington, D.C., which contain sprawling and densely populated suburbs, as well as numerous satellite cities.
Central Maryland
This region of Maryland contains both its capital, Annapolis, and its most populous city, Baltimore.
Eastern Shore
The Eastern Shore region is Maryland's part of the Delmarva Peninsula, which is shared with Delaware and Virginia's Eastern Shore. The area is rich in culture and history, making it a great travel destination for anyone who's looking to soak up the local culture!
Western Maryland
Western Maryland traditionally consists of Allegany, Garrett, and Washington counties, but often includes Frederick County and rarely, Carroll County.
Southern Maryland
Southern Maryland consists of Calvert, Charles and St. Mary's counties as well as the southern portions of Prince Georges and Ann Arundel counties.
Maryland
- Type: State with 6,260,000 residents
- Description: state of the United States of America
- Also known as: “Marialand”, “Marieland”, “Mariland”, “Mary-Land”, “Maryaland”, “Maryland, United States”, “MD”, “Md.”, “Merriland”, “Old Line State”, “State of Maryland”, and “US-MD”
- Neighbors: Delaware, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia
- Categories: U.S. state and locality
- Location: Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of center
39.5162° or 39° 30′ 59″ northLongitude of center
-76.9382° or 76° 56′ 18″ westPopulation
6,260,000Elevation
138 feet (42 metres)Abbreviation
“Md.”Abbreviation
“MD”OpenStreetMap ID
node 316964668OpenStreetMap feature
place=state
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Maryland” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Maryland”
- Albanian: “Maryland”
- Albanian: “Merilënd”
- Amharic: “ሜሪላንድ”
- Arabic: “ماريلند”
- Aragonese: “Maryland”
- Armenian: “Մերիլենդ”
- Arpitan: “Maryland”
- Asturian: “Maryland”
- Aymara: “Maryland suyu”
- Azerbaijani: “Merilend”
- Balinese: “Maryland”
- Basque: “Maryland”
- Bavarian: “Maryland”
- Belarusian: “Мэрыленд”
- Belarusian: “Мэрылэнд”
- Bengali: “মেরিল্যান্ড”
- Betawi: “Marilan”
- Bhojpuri: “मैरीलैंड”
- Bishnupriya: “মেরিল্যান্ড”
- Bislama: “Maryland”
- Bosnian: “Maryland”
- Breton: “Maryland”
- Bulgarian: “Мериленд”
- Burmese: “မေရီလန်းပြည်နယ်”
- Catalan: “Maryland”
- Cebuano: “Maryland”
- Central Bikol: “Maryland”
- Central Kurdish: “مەریلەند”
- Central Kurdish: “مێریلەند”
- Chavacano: “Maryland”
- Chechen: “Мэриленд”
- Cherokee: “ᎺᎵᏂ”
- Chinese: “Maryland”
- Chinese: “馬利蘭州”
- Chinese: “馬里蘭州”
- Chinese: “马里兰州”
- Cornish: “Tir Maria”
- Corsican: “Maryland”
- Crimean Tatar: “Merilend”
- Croatian: “Maryland”
- Czech: “Maryland”
- Czech: “State of Maryland”
- Dagbani: “Maryland”
- Danish: “Maryland”
- Danish: “MD”
- Dimli (individual language): “Maryland”
- Dutch: “Maryland”
- Dutch: “MD”
- Eastern Mari: “Мэриленд”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ماريلاند”
- Esperanto: “Marilando”
- Esperanto: “Maryland”
- Estonian: “Maryland”
- Ewe: “Maryland”
- Faroese: “Maryland”
- Fiji Hindi: “Maryland”
- Finnish: “Maryland”
- French: “Maryland”
- Gagauz: “Maryland”
- Galician: “Maryland”
- Georgian: “მერილენდი”
- German: “Maryland”
- Gothic: “𐌼𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌴𐌹𐌻𐌰𐌽𐌳”
- Greek: “Μέριλαντ”
- Guarani: “Maryland”
- Gujarati: “મેરીલેન્ડ”
- Haitian: “Merilann”
- Hakka Chinese: “Maryland”
- Hausa: “Maryland”
- Hawaiian: “Melelana”
- Hebrew: “מרילנד”
- Hindi: “मैरिलैण्ड”
- Hindi: “मैरीलैंड”
- Hungarian: “Maryland”
- Icelandic: “Maryland”
- Ido: “Maryland”
- Igbo: “Mérílạnd”
- Iloko: “Maryland”
- Inari Sami: “Maryland”
- Indonesian: “Maryland”
- Interlingua: “Maryland”
- Interlingue: “Maryland”
- Inupiaq: “Marilaan”
- Inupiaq: “Maryland”
- Irish: “Maryland”
- Italian: “Maryland”
- Japanese: “メアリーランド州”
- Japanese: “メリーランド州”
- Javanese: “Maryland”
- Kabiyè: “Marilandɩ”
- Kabyle: “Maryland”
- Kalaallisut: “Maryland”
- Kalmyk: “Мэрилэнд”
- Kannada: “ಮೇರಿಲ್ಯಾಂಡ್”
- Karachay-Balkar: “Мэриленд”
- Kashmiri: “میرِلَنڈ”
- Kazakh: “Мэриленд”
- Kirghiz: “Мэриленд (штат)”
- Kirghiz: “Мэриленд”
- Komering: “Maryland”
- Korean: “맬리랜드”
- Korean: “맬리랜드주”
- Korean: “메릴랜드”
- Korean: “메릴랜드주”
- Kurdish: “Maryland”
- Ladin: “Maryland”
- Ladino: “Maryland”
- Latin: “Terra Mariae”
- Latvian: “Mērilenda”
- Ligurian: “Maryland”
- Limburgan: “Maryland”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Maryland”
- Literary Chinese: “馬里蘭州”
- Lithuanian: “Merilandas”
- Lombard: “Maryland”
- Low German: “Maryland”
- Luxembourgish: “Maryland”
- Macedonian: “Мериленд”
- Maithili: “मेरिल्याण्ड”
- Malagasy: “Maryland”
- Malay: “Maryland”
- Malayalam: “മെരിലാൻഡ്”
- Malayalam: “മേരിലാൻഡ്”
- Manipuri: “ꯃꯦꯔꯤꯂꯦꯟ꯭ꯗ”
- Manx: “Maryland”
- Maori: “Maryland”
- Maori: “Mererana”
- Marathi: “मेरीलँड”
- Mazanderani: “مریلند”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Maryland”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Maryland”
- Mingrelian: “მერილენდი”
- Mongolian: “Мэрилэнд”
- Moroccan Arabic: “ميريلاند”
- Nauru: “Maryland”
- Navajo: “Tóbinídahaazyíní Hahoodzo”
- Nepali: “मेरिल्याण्ड”
- Nepali: “मेरिल्यान्ड”
- Newari: “मेरिल्यान्द”
- Newari: “मेरील्यान्ड”
- Northern Frisian: “Maryland”
- Northern Luri: “مئریلأند”
- Northern Sami: “Maryland”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Maryland”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Md.”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “MD”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Maryland”
- Norwegian: “Maryland”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Maryland”
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܡܐܪܝܠܐܢܕ”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Marianland”
- Ossetian: “Мэриленд”
- Pali: “मेरील्यान्ड”
- Pampanga: “Maryland”
- Panjabi: “ਮੈਰੀਲੈਂਡ”
- Papiamento: “Maryland”
- Pennsylvania German: “Maryland”
- Persian: “مریلند”
- Picard: “Maryland”
- Piemontese: “Maryland”
- Polish: “Maryland”
- Portuguese: “Estado de Maryland”
- Portuguese: “Maryland”
- Portuguese: “MD”
- Pushto: “مریلنډ”
- Quechua: “Maryland suyu”
- Romanian: “Maryland”
- Romansh: “Maryland”
- Russia Buriat: “Мэриленд”
- Russian: “Мэриленд”
- Russian: “штат Мэриленд”
- Samoan: “Marilani”
- Samogitian: “Merilands”
- Sanskrit: “मेरिलैंड”
- Sanskrit: “मेरिलैण्ड”
- Santali: “ᱢᱮᱨᱤᱞᱟᱸᱰ”
- Sardinian: “Maryland”
- Saterfriesisch: “Maryland”
- Scots: “Maryland”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Maryland”
- Serbian: “Мериленд”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Maryland”
- Sicilian: “Maryland”
- Silesian: “Maryland”
- Sindhi: “ميري لينڊ”
- Sinhala: “මේරිලන්ඩ්”
- Slovak: “Maryland”
- Slovenian: “Maryland”
- Slovenian: “MD”
- Slovenian: “State of Maryland”
- Slovenian: “Zvezna država Maryland”
- South Azerbaijani: “مریلند ایالتی”
- South Azerbaijani: “مریلند”
- Spanish: “Estado de la línea Antigua”
- Spanish: “Estado de Maryland”
- Spanish: “Maryland (Estados Unidos)”
- Spanish: “Maryland”
- Spanish: “MD”
- Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵎⴰⵔⵉⵍⴰⵏⴷ”
- Swahili: “Maryland”
- Swedish: “Maryland”
- Swedish: “MD”
- Tagalog: “Maryland”
- Tajik: “Мэриленд”
- Talysh: “Merilend”
- Tamil: “மரிலாண்ட்”
- Tamil: “மேரிலாந்து”
- Tatar: “Мериленд”
- Tatar: “Мэриленд”
- Telugu: “మేరీల్యాండ్”
- Thai: “รัฐแมริแลนด์”
- Tibetan: “མ་རིས་ལེན་ཌ།”
- Tumbuka: “Maryland”
- Turkish: “Mar.”
- Turkish: “Mary.”
- Turkish: “Maryland eyaleti”
- Turkish: “Maryland, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri”
- Turkish: “Maryland”
- Turkish: “Md.”
- Turkish: “MD”
- Turkish: “State of Maryland”
- Turkish: “US-MD”
- Uighur: “Maryland Shitati”
- Ukrainian: “Мериленд”
- Ukrainian: “Меріленд”
- Urdu: “میری لینڈ”
- Uzbek: “Maryland”
- Venetian: “Maryland”
- Vietnamese: “Maryland”
- Vlaams: “Maryland”
- Vlax Romani: “Maryland”
- Volapük: “Maryland”
- Waray (Philippines): “Maryland”
- Welsh: “Maryland”
- Western Armenian: “Մերիլենտ”
- Western Frisian: “Marylân”
- Western Mari: “Мэриленд”
- Western Panjabi: “میری لینڈ”
- Western Panjabi: “میریلینڈ”
- Wu Chinese: “马里兰州”
- Xhosa: “IMarilandi”
- Yakut: “Мэрилэнд”
- Yiddish: “מארילאנד”
- Yiddish: “מערילאנד”
- Yoruba: “Maryland”
- Yue Chinese: “馬利蘭州”
- Zeeuws: “Maryland”
- Zhuang: “Maryland”
- Zulu: “Maryland”
- “ma Mewilan”
- “Maryland”
- “Merilands”
- “मैरीलैंड”
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