A few words about NEW JERSEY........ New Jersey is a peninsula. It has a West Coast. New Jersey has the highest population density in the US. An average 1,030 people per sq. mi., which is 13 times the national average. Highlands,New Jersey has the highest elevation along the entire eastern seaboard,from Maineto Florida. New Jersey has the highest percentage of urban population in the US with about 90% of the people living in an urban area. New Jersey is the only state where all its counties are classified as metropolitan areas. New Jersey has more race horses than Kentucky. New Jersey has more Cubans in Union City (1 sq. mi.) than Havana, Cuba. North Jersey is the car theft capital of the world, with more cars stolen in Newark then any other city. Even the 2 largest cities, NYC and LA put together. New Jersey has the most dense system of highways and railroads in the US New Jersey has 108 toxic waste dumps. Which is the most in any one state in the nation. New Jersey has the most Diner's in the world and is sometimes referred to as the Diner capital of the world. North Jersey has the most shopping malls in one area in the world, with seven major shopping malls in a 25 square mile radius. New Jersey is home to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. The PassaicRiverwas the site of the first submarine ride by inventor John P. Holland. New Jersey has over 50 resort cities and towns, some of the nations most famous, Asbury Park, Wildwood, Atlantic City, Seaside Heights, Cape May. New Jersey is a leading industrial state and is the largest chemical producing state in the nation. New Jersey is a major seaport state with the largest seaport in the US, located in Elizabeth. The light bulb, phonograph (record player), motion picture projector were invented by Thomas Edison in his Menlo Park laboratory. The first sea-plane was built in Keyport. The first air-mail to Chicago was started from Keyport. The first phonograph records were made in Camden. New Jersey is home to the Miss America pageant held in Atlantic City. Atlantic City is where the street names came from for the game Monopoly. Atlantic City has the longest boardwalk in the world. New Jersey has the largest petroleum containment area outside of the Middle East countries. The first Indian reservation was in New Jersey. New Jersey has the tallest water tower {sphere) in the world, located just off the Garden State Parkway in Union. New Jersey was home to the Boy Scouts of America with its headquarters formerly located in New Brunswick. Two thirds of the world's eggplants and three quarteres of the cranberry's are grown in New Jersey. New Jersey had the first Medical Center, Jersey City. The Pulaski Sky Way was the first sky way highway, it runs from Jersey City to Newark. The first tunnel under the Hudson River is in Jersey City. (Holland Tunnel) The invention and manufacturing of the Colt Revolver was in Paterson. New Jersey is the only state in the nation which offers child abuse prevention workshops to every public school. The first baseball game was played in Hoboken. The first intercollegiate football game was played in New Brunswick; in 1889 Rutgers College played Princeton, Rutgers won. The first Drive-in Movie theater was opened in Camden. New Jersey is the home to both of NEW YORK'S Pro Football Teams. The first radio station and broadcast was in Paterson. The State is unofficially divided into two parts..... this side and that side of the Parkway (Driscoll) bridge in South Amboy, over The Raritan River. Jack Nicholson, Frankie Valli, Bruce Springsteen, Bon Jovi, Jason Alexander, Queen Latifa, Shaq ONeil, Olympia Dukakis, Judy Blume, Aaron Burr, Joan Robertson, Joseph Czesnik, Dr. Carl Gedon, John Milewski, Ken Kross, Dionne Warwick, Sarah Vaughn, Marilynn McCoo, Flip Wilson, Alexander Hamilton, Whitney Houston, Eddie Money, Frank Sinatra, Eileen Donnely, Grover Cleveland, Woodrow Wilson, Walt Whitman, Jerry Lewis, Richard Wojewodzki, Joyce Kilmer Bruce Willis, Caesar Romero, Lou Costello, Nick Adams, Nathan Lane, Sandra Dee, Danny DaVito, Joe Piscopo, Richard Conti, Joe Pesci, Robert Blake, John Forsyth, Meryl Streep, Loretta Swit, Norman Lloyd, Jerry Herman, Gorden McCrae, Kevin Spacey, John Travolta, Phyllis Newman, and all New Jersey natives.d!