Ocean County
Ocean County is on the Jersey Shore. It is the southernmost county in the New York City metropolitan area. The county is also home to many tourist attractions such as the beachfront communities of Seaside Heights, Long Beach Island, and Point Pleasant Beach…| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Long Beach Island and Point Pleasant.
Long Beach Island
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Long Beach Island, famous Exit 63 off the Garden State Parkway, is an 18-mile-long barrier island in Ocean County, New Jersey. The island has evolved from an important fishing hub to a playground for well-to-do men and women.
Point Pleasant
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Point Pleasant is a small borough in the New Jersey Shore region. This close-to-the-coast community is often confused with its coastal neighbor, Point Pleasant Beach.
Lakewood
Lakewood Township is the most populous township in Ocean County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. A rapidly growing community, as of the 2020 United States census, the township's population was 135,158, its highest decennial count ever and an increase of 42,315 from the 2010 census count of 92,843, which in turn reflected an increase of 32,491 from the 60,352 counted in the 2000 census.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Toms River and Point Pleasant Beach.
Toms River
Toms River is the county seat of Ocean County, New Jersey. It is a few miles west of the beaches of the Jersey Shore Region, midway between New York and Philadelphia and a short distance from Atlantic City.
Point Pleasant Beach
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Point Pleasant Beach is a small borough in the New Jersey Shore region. This seaside community is often called Point Pleasant by tourists. In fact Point Pleasant Beach, a coastal town that sees a large influx of summer visitors, is a separate political entity from its western neighbor - Point Pleasant.
Seaside Heights
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Seaside Heights is a borough with almost 3,000 residents in the New Jersey Shore region. Seaside Heights is a beach town on a barrier island that faces the Atlantic Ocean on the east and Barnegat Bay on the west.
Bay Head
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Bay Head is a village of fewer than 1,000 people in Ocean County, New Jersey It lies 80 km east of Philadelphia, 110 km south of New York City and 40 km north of Atlantic City, along the Jersey coast.
Ortley Beach
Ortley Beach, also called Dover Beach South, is part of Ocean County, on the Jersey Shore. It is located on the Barnegat Peninsula and is physically separated from its governing entity, the city of Toms River.Jackson Township
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Jackson Township is a town of 60,000 people in Ocean County. Jackson is the site of Six Flags Great Adventure and Six Flags Hurricane Harbor theme parks. This article also covers Plumsted Township, a community of about 8,000 people to the west of Jackson.
Lakehurst–Manchester
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Manchester Township is a township in Ocean County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The township is noted for containing the Lakehurst Naval Air Station, the site of the infamous Hindenburg disaster of May 6, 1937.
Brick Township
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Brick Township is a township situated on the Jersey Shore within Ocean County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the city retained its position as the state's 13th-most-populous municipality, with a population of 73,620…
Southern Ocean County
Southern Ocean County is the less densely populated part of Ocean County, New Jersey.Ocean County
- Type: county of New Jersey with 577,000 residents
- Description: county in New Jersey, United States
- Also known as: “Ocean”, “Ocean County, New Jersey”, and “Ocean County, NJ”
- Neighbors: Atlantic County, Burlington County, and Monmouth County
- Location: Jersey Shore, New Jersey, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Western Panjabi—“Ocean County” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Ocean County”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة أوشن”
- Armenian: “Օուշն շրջան”
- Asturian: “condáu d’Ocean”
- Azerbaijani: “Oşen”
- Basque: “Ocean konderria”
- Bavarian: “Ocean County, New Jersey”
- Bavarian: “Ocean County”
- Belarusian: “Оўшэн”
- Bishnupriya: “ওসিয়ান কাউন্টি, নিউ জার্সি”
- Bishnupriya: “ওসিয়ান কাউন্টি”
- Bulgarian: “Оушън”
- Catalan: “comtat d’Ocean”
- Cebuano: “Ocean County”
- Chechen: “Ошен (гуо, Нью-Джерси)”
- Chechen: “Ошен”
- Chinese: “Ocean Kūn”
- Chinese: “大洋县”
- Chinese: “大洋縣”
- Chinese: “海洋县”
- Chinese: “海洋縣”
- Dutch: “Ocean County”
- Esperanto: “Kantono Ocean”
- Esperanto: “Kantono Oceano”
- Finnish: “Oceanin piirikunta”
- French: “Comte d’Ocean”
- French: “comté d’Ocean”
- French: “Comté d’Ocean”
- French: “Ocean County”
- Georgian: “ოუშენის ოლქი”
- German: “Ocean County”
- Gilaki: “اوشن ٚ شأرستان (نيۊجرسي)”
- Gilaki: “اوشن ٚ شأرستان”
- Greek: “Κομητεία Όσεαν”
- Hebrew: “מחוז אושן”
- Hungarian: “Ocean megye”
- Irish: “Contae Ocean”
- Italian: “contea di Ocean”
- Italian: “Contea di Ocean”
- Japanese: “オーシャン郡”
- Korean: “오션군”
- Low German: “Ocean County”
- Mazanderani: “اوشن شهرستان (نیوجرسی)”
- Mazanderani: “اوشن شهرستان”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Ocean Gông”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Ocean Kūn”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ocean County”
- Norwegian: “Ocean County”
- Persian: “شهرستان اقیانوس”
- Persian: “شهرستان اوشن، نیوجرسی”
- Persian: “شهرستان اوشن”
- Polish: “Hrabstwo Ocean”
- Portuguese: “Condado de Ocean”
- Romanian: “Comitatul Ocean, New Jersey”
- Romanian: “Comitatul Ocean”
- Russian: “Оушен”
- Russian: “Ошен”
- Sardinian: “contea de Ocean”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Ocean County”
- Serbian: “Округ Оушан”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ocean County, New Jersey”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ocean County”
- Slovenian: “Ocean County”
- Slovenian: “Okrožje Ocean”
- Spanish: “Condado de Ocean (Nueva Jersey)”
- Spanish: “Condado de Ocean”
- Swedish: “Ocean County, New Jersey”
- Swedish: “Ocean County”
- Tatar: “Ошен (округ, Нью-Джерси)”
- Tatar: “Ошен”
- Tumbuka: “Ocean County”
- Turkish: “Ocean County, N.J.”
- Turkish: “Ocean County, New Jersey”
- Turkish: “Ocean County, NJ”
- Turkish: “Ocean County”
- Turkish: “Ocean ilçesi, N.J.”
- Turkish: “Ocean ilçesi, New Jersey”
- Turkish: “Ocean ilçesi, NJ”
- Turkish: “Ocean ilçesi”
- Ukrainian: “Оушен”
- Urdu: “اوشن کاؤنٹی، نیو جرسی”
- Urdu: “اوشن کاؤنٹی”
- Venetian: “contea de Ocean”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Đại Dương, New Jersey”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Đại Dương, Tân Jersey”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Đại Dương”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Ocean, New Jersey”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Ocean, Tân Jersey”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Ocean”
- Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Ocean, New Jersey”
- Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Ocean”
- Welsh: “Ocean County, New Jersey”
- Welsh: “Ocean County”
- Western Panjabi: “اوشین کاؤنٹی”
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