The English later seized control of the region, naming it the Province of New Jersey after the largest of the Channel Islands, Jersey, and granting it as a colony to Sir George Carteret and John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton. The Dutch and the Swedes founded the first European settlements in the state. New Jersey was first inhabited by Native Americans for at least 2,800 years, with the Lenape being the dominant group by the time Europeans arrived in the early 17th century. state by median household income as of 2017. New Jersey was the second-wealthiest U.S. All but one county in New Jersey lie within the combined statistical areas of New York City or Philadelphia.
New Jersey is the fourth-smallest state by area but the 11th-most populous, with 8,882,190 residents as of 2019 and an area of 8,722.58 square miles, making it the most densely populated of the 50 U.S. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York on the east, southeast, and south by the Atlantic Ocean on the west by the Delaware River and Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware Bay and the State of Delaware.
New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the Northeastern United States.
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