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N ew Jersey is by far the nation’s most densely populated state. It’s home to nearly 14 times more people per square mile than the United States as a whole. These facts may call to mind images of crowded cities and sprawling suburban development. New Jersey certainly has its share of those, particularly in the northern part of the state. Yet New Jersey also lives up to its nickname, the Garden State. Survey results released in 2014 by the American Farmland Trust showed New Jersey leading all states in the percentage of farm- land protected from development. And the Pinelands National Reserve—a million acres of protected forests, wetlands, and areas of restricted development—stretches across parts of seven southern New Jersey counties. Geography New Jersey is located in the eastern United States, along the Atlantic seaboard . It has borders with three other states. Delaware is to the southwest. Pennsylvania lies to the west. New York borders New Jersey on the north and, for some 40 miles (64 kilometers), on the east. The rest of eastern New Jersey is bounded New Jersey

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