New Jersey Trivia for the week:

 

  • NJ is a peninsula 
  • NJ is the only state in which all counties are classified as metropolitan areas 
  • NJ has the most diverse ecosystem of any state: mountains, seashore, farmland, forests and wetlands. 
  • NJ is 11th in population (8.9 million people in 2012) 
  • NJ is 46th in size with 8,224 square miles (166 miles top to bottom, 57 miles across) 
  • NJ has the highest population density in the US (1,189 people/sq. mile), more densely populated than most of the world's nations