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Section sizes

Section size for New Jersey (85 sections)
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(Top)	20,121	20,121
History	44	36,331
Prehistoric era	2,171	2,171
Colonial era	5,333	5,333
Revolutionary War era	7,736	7,736
19th century	5,119	5,119
20th century	6,519	6,519
21st century	9,409	9,409
Geography	6,086	23,613
Prominent geographic features	800	800
Climate	4,334	6,615
Climate change	2,281	2,281
Administrative divisions	473	10,112
Counties	1,799	1,799
Municipalities	7,840	7,840
Demographics	19	70,356
Population	10,218	10,218
Race and ethnicity	29,591	29,591
Birth data	4,510	4,510
Languages	10,629	10,629
Sexual orientation and gender identity	6,873	6,873
Religion	8,516	8,516
Education	3,155	9,913
Educational standards	6,758	6,758
Economy	710	39,301
Affluence	953	953
Fiscal policy	6,397	6,397
Federal taxation disparity	1,581	1,581
Industries	3,145	29,660
Scientific economy	2,262	2,262
Corporate and retail	1,815	1,815
Shipping, manufacturing, and logistics	695	695
Tourism	1,622	1,622
Gambling	6,265	6,265
Media	146	7,480
Television and film production	4,670	4,670
Newspapers	1,560	1,560
Radio stations	72	72
Television stations	1,032	1,032
Finance as Wall Street West	4,473	4,473
Natural resources and energy	1,903	1,903
Environment	1,119	1,119
Transportation	243	12,086
Roadways	5,191	5,191
Airports	1,543	1,543
Rail and bus	4,014	4,014
Ferries	1,095	1,095
Culture	322	16,156
General	7,251	7,251
Cuisine	3,478	3,478
Music	5,105	5,105
Sports	628	16,383
Professional sports	8,333	8,333
Major league sports	958	958
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College sports	83	4,850
Major schools	3,579	3,579
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High school	689	689
Stadiums and arenas	983	1,316
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Government and politics	63	26,640
Executive	1,943	1,943
Legislative	1,169	1,169
Judicial	2,608	2,608
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Capital punishment	975	975
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Boardwalks	2,635	2,635
Museums	949	949
National Park Service areas	1,150	1,150
Entertainment and concert venues	1,154	1,154
Theme parks	3,717	3,717
See also	198	198
Notes	47	47
References	28	28
External links	60	2,902
State government	911	911
U.S. government	788	788
Other	1,143	1,143
Total	286,138	286,138

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5th smallest state

Should be 4th smallest state 2A0D:6FC7:41F:9CDA:4371:768:E182:7CA4 (talk) 12:28, 20 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@2A0D:6FC7:41F:9CDA:4371:768:E182:7CA4 Source?? -Lemonaka 03:32, 15 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You'll need to give a source for this info. There are those who say that it's 4th-smallest by land area, but it's 5th-smallest by total area, which is what is generally used. Lindsey40186 (talk) 04:01, 15 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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In the History section, please remove the sentence “ Around 180 million years ago, during the Jurassic Period, New Jersey bordered North Africa.” This is not mentioned in the source provided. Also please add the subheading of “Prehistoric era”. 2600:100C:A216:3864:78B2:C9B5:2A6A:71BA (talk) 22:06, 2 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done ABG (Talk/Report any mistakes here) 02:31, 19 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

12th or 11th most populous?

The article currently claims that NJ is the 12th most populous state, although it recently said 11th. This is strange, given this claim links to the article showing states by population, which puts NJ at 11th. What's with the discrepancy? FiveInParticular (talk) 22:22, 20 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Citation missing in first paragraph

There should be a citation for the fact stated in the first paragraph of the article that New Jersey is the only state for which every county is deemed urban by the US Census Bureau. Is it certain that this fact is true? 73.153.196.210 (talk) 07:39, 8 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The citation for this is in the second paragraph of New_Jersey#Population. Per MOS:LEADCITE, Because the lead usually repeats information that is in the body, editors should balance the desire to avoid redundant citations in the lead with the desire to aid readers in locating sources for challengeable material. Kire1975 (talk) 07:56, 8 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The archived citation that is linked for the fact that "New Jersey is the only state for which every count is deemed urban" is a page from 1999 that shows all the metropolitan areas and components within the US. I have two concerns:

1. Is it true that if a county belongs to a metropolitan area that it is deemed urban? I believe that the Census Bureau has a separate designation for whether an area is deemed "urban," and these areas do not necessarily follow county lines. For example, here are the areas of Delaware that are designated as either an urban cluster or an urbanized area:

https://dhss.delaware.gov/dhss/dph/hp/files/ruralurban.pdf

Similarly, here is an interactive map that shows the urban areas in New Jersey:

https://njogis-newjersey.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/NJDOT::urbanized-areas/explore

Both of these maps show some amount of urban area in every county of both states.

2. If we do indeed just want to use the fact that all of New Jersey's counties belong to some Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), then I notice in the archived citation from 1999 that all five counties in Rhode Island belong to the Providence-Fall River-Warwick, RI-MA Metropolitan Statistical Area. New Jersey is not the only state for which each county belongs to an MSA. 2600:6C50:427F:E093:B5C9:DD74:43BC:B478 (talk) 18:57, 12 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Grammatical error

Culture > Cuisine: New Jersey's third-largest industry is food and agriculture just behind pharmaceuticals and tourism. RagingBoson (talk) 14:35, 26 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed. Thanks for pointing it out. oknazevad (talk) 19:06, 26 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]