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New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States of America.
The state is named after the island of Jersey in the English Channel. It is bordered on the north by
New York, on the east by the Atlantic Ocean, on the southwest by Delaware, and on the west by Pennsylvania.
Parts of New Jersey lie within the metropolitan areas of New York and Philadelphia.
New Jersey is broadly divided into three geographic regions: North Jersey, Central Jersey,
and South Jersey. North Jersey lies within New York City's general sphere of influence
(i.e. largely within the New York metropolitan area), and some residents commute to the city to work.
Central Jersey is a largely suburban area. South Jersey is within Philadelphia's general sphere of influence,
and most of it is included in the Delaware Valley. Such geographic definitions are loosely defined,
however, and there is often dispute over where one region begins and another ends. Some people do not
consider Central Jersey to exist at all, but most believe it is a separate geographic and cultural
area from the North and South.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Jersey
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