Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
There are 23 counties and one independent city in the U.S. state of Maryland. Though formally an independent city rather than a county, the City of Baltimore is considered the equal of a county for most purposes and is functionally a county-equivalent in most respects. Many of the counties in Maryland were named for relatives of the Barons ...
Location of the state of Maryland in the United States of America An enlargeable map of the 23 counties and 1 independent city of the state of Maryland. Prehistory of Maryland. Indigenous peoples; English Colony of Maryland, 1632–1694 History of slavery in Maryland; Maryland Toleration Act, 1649; English Province of Maryland, 1694–1707
Maryland ( US: / ˈmɛrɪlənd / ⓘ MERR-il-ənd) [ b] is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. [ 8][ 9] It borders Virginia to its south, West Virginia to its west, Pennsylvania to its north, Delaware and the Atlantic Ocean to its east, and the national capital of Washington, D.C. to the southwest.
Geography of Maryland. Physical regions of Maryland. The U.S. state of Maryland has a varied geography. It has an area of 12,406.68 square miles (32,133.2 km 2) and is comparable in overall area with Belgium [11,787 square miles (30,530 km 2 )]. [ 1] It is the 42nd largest and 9th smallest state and is closest in size to the state of Hawaii ...
The Maryland House of Delegates is the lower house of the Maryland General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. State of Maryland. Three delegates are elected from each district, though some districts are divided into sub-districts. In the original state constitution, four delegates were elected from each county to one-year terms, and ...
The following is a list of the 3,143 counties and county-equivalents in the 50 states and District of Columbia sorted by U.S. state, plus an additional 100 county-equivalents in the U.S. territories sorted by territory.
373,177. Time zone. UTC−5 ( EST) • Summer ( DST) UTC−4 ( EDT) Southern Maryland, also referred to as SoMD, is a geographical, cultural and historic region, as well as a National Heritage Area, [ 8] in Maryland composed of the state's southernmost counties on the Western Shore of the Chesapeake Bay.
Map of the United States with Maryland highlighted Maryland is a state located in the Southern United States . [ 1 ] As of the 2020 United States census , Maryland is the 18th-most populous state with 6,177,224 inhabitants and the ninth-smallest by land area , spanning 9,707.24 square miles (25,141.6 km 2 ) of land. [ 2 ]