Talk:Jersey/@comment-3552681-20160523000339

Geography notes:

The real life Delaware only has three counties yet is the second smallest state in the US. The smallest state goes to Rhode Island but has five counties.

A reference note to our International SU fans: The United States is divided into 50 states, but each state (with exception of Washington, DC and the state of Alaska) is divided up into smaller divisions called counties. In some places, like my home town of St. Louis, independent cities are separate from their counties and counted as their own county. Thus the City of St. Louis is an independent city separate from St. Louis County which surrounds much of it.

One of these independent cities separate from the county is Baltimore, Maryland. We've identified that in SU, Charm City, Delmarva is the in universe for the real Charm City itself.

Delaware (IRL) is 30 miles wide and 90 miles tall with Maryland (IRL) bordering all most all of it's land border except for a small part of Northern New Castle County at the Pennsylvannia-Delaware border, which forms a arc that's center point is the city of New Castle that creates a 12 mile radius which missed the tri-junction of the PA-MD-DE border 3/4 of a mile west of the arc, and 3 miles north of the other side of the arc. This error in geometry around the arc, know as the 12-mile Circle, created a disputed land area known as the Delaware Wedge that until 1921 never was resolved!

Steven spoke of "The Tri-State Area" which would imply that because Delmarva is the combination of Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware, there are two other states near Beach City, which could be Keystone and Jersey. The US Census Bureau list New Castle County as part of the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington PA-NJ-DE-MD Metropolitian Statistical Area (MSA), Kent County part of the Dover, DE MSA, and Sussex County part of the Salsbury MD-DE MSA. New Castle and Kent Counties are includede as part of the Philadephila-Reading-Camden PA-NJ-DE-MD Combined Statistical Area (CSA), but Sussex County is not part of any CSA despite that Reading County, PA sticks out like a sore thumb. (Can any one say "gerrymandering"?)

It is important to note that America's "First State" made up of New Castle, Kent, and Sussex Counties were part of Pennsylvania until America declared its independence in 1776. So you could say that America declared its independence from Britain and Delaware declared its independence from Pennsylvania, except in terms of economic statistics.