Maryland (usa)

Maryland

Maryland ranks 3,402nd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Limanowa, Saint-Cloud, and Edison, New Jersey. Memorable people born in Maryland include Frank Stallone, Edith Clarke, and Josephine Diebitsch Peary. Memorable people who died in Maryland include Charles Greeley Abbot. Maryland has been the birth place of many writers and actors and the death place of many astronomers. Maryland is located in United States.

Maryland is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. The state borders Virginia to its south, West Virginia to its west, Pennsylvania to its north, Delaware to its east, the Atlantic Ocean, and the national capital of Washington, D.C. With a total area of 12,407 square miles (32,130 km2), Maryland is the ninth-smallest state by land area, and its population of 6,177,224 ranks it the 18th-most populous state and the fifth-most densely populated. Maryland's capital is Annapolis, and the most populous city is Baltimore. Occasional nicknames include Old Line State, the Free State, and the Chesapeake Bay State. It is named after Henrietta Maria, the French-born queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland during the 17th century. Read more on Wikipedia