Manyland plugin5/21/2023 Washington D.C.Īlbany, Anchorage, Annapolis, Atlanta, Atlantic City, Augusta, Baltimore, Baton Rouge, Bismarck, Boise, Boston, Carson City, Charleston, WV, Cheyenne, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbia, Concord, Des Moines, Detroit, Dover, DE, El Paso, Frankfort, Harrisburg, Hartford, Helena, Honolulu, Jackson, Jefferson City, Juneau, Kansas City, Lansing, Las Vegas, Lincoln, Little Rock, Long Beach, Madison, Memphis, Miami, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Montgomery, Montpelier, Nashville, New Orleans, Norfolk, Oklahoma City, Olympia, Orlando, Pierre, Pittsburgh, Portland, Providence, Richmond, VA, Raleigh, Sacramento, St. The main airport in the state is Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport ( IATA code: BWI).Īlabama | Alaska | Arizona | Arkansas | California | Colorado | Connecticut | Delaware | Florida | Georgia | Hawaii | Idaho | Illinois | Indiana | Iowa | Kansas | Kentucky | Louisiana | Maine | Maryland | Massachusetts | Michigan | Minnesota | Mississippi | Missouri | Montana | Nebraska | Nevada | New Hampshire | New Jersey | New Mexico | New York | North Carolina | North Dakota | Ohio | Oklahoma | Oregon | Pennsylvania | Rhode Island | South Carolina | South Dakota | Tennessee | Texas | Utah | Vermont | Virginia | Washington | West Virginia | Wisconsin | Wyomingġ. The population of Maryland is composed of White alone 50.5%, African American 30.9%, Hispanic or Latino 10.4%, Asian 6.7%, and Native American 0.6%. Major cities in the state are Baltimore, which is by far the largest city with a population of 602,000 citizens 2.8 million people live in the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson urban area.Īll other cities like Frederick, Gaithersburg, Rockville, and Bowie, have a population of under 70,000 people, including Annapolis, the state's capital.īesides those cities, there are urbanized census-designated places (CDP) likeĬolumbia (pop. Maryland has a population of 6 million people (in 2019). state capitol in continuous legislative use, dating to 1772. The Georgian style building houses the Maryland General Assembly, and offices of the Governor. Rendered image of Maryland State House in Annapolis. The highest point in the state is Hoye Crest at 1,024 m (3,360 ft) a.s.l., on Backbone Mountain in Garrett County on the Maryland-West Virginia border in the far west. In the south of the bay are the isolated Hoopers Islands, the Bloodsworth Island, a former shore bombardment and bombing range, the once settled and now abandoned Holland Island, and the car-free Smith Island on the border of Maryland and Virginia. Gibson island, a gated community with expensive real estate. Other islands in the Chesapeake Bay are rural Tilghman Island, Hart-Miller Island, a state-owned, public recreation area. The uninhabited Pooles Island is home to the oldest lighthouse still standing in Maryland. Islands located in the Chesapeake Bay: Kent Island in Maryland's Eastern Shore region is the largest island in the Chesapeake Bay.Įastern Neck Island is home to the Eastern Neck National Wildlife Refuge, a sanctuary for migratory birds. Maryland has 281 named islands, including river islands, islands in the Chesapeake, and other bays.Īssateague Island is an elongated barrier island off the east coast of the Delmarva Peninsula in the Atlantic Ocean.įenwick Island is a barrier spit along the Atlantic Ocean the barrier island is shared by Delaware and Maryland. Wild Beach at Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge, southern Assateague Island National Seashore. Finally, in the far southeast is the Atlantic Continental Shelf Province along Assateague Island. East of the bay is the Eastern Shore covering the west side of the Delmarva Peninsula, which Maryland shares with Delaware and Virginia. Maryland's portion of the plain surrounds the Chesapeake Bay west of the bay lies the Western Shore Lowlands Region in the north, and the Western Shore Uplands Region in the south. The Atlantic Coastal Plain is separated from the upland bedrock of the Piedmont Plateau by the Atlantic Seaboard Fall Line in the west. The Piedmont Plateau with its Lowland Section and its Upland Section with sprawling Baltimore at its edge.ģ. Further to the east lies the more separate Blue Ridge Province, which borders the Piedmont Plateau.Ģ. The state has its share of the Appalachian Mountains in the west, in the state's 'panhandle.' The Appalachian region is further divided into several physiographic provinces the Appalachian Plateaus Province (or Allegheny Mountains) in the far west borders the Ridge and Valley Province in the east, and the Great Valley Section in the areas around Hagerstown. Image: Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program Skipton Creek, a tributary of the Wye River, in Talbot County, Maryland.
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