MarylandMaryland covers 12407 square miles and has a population of 5,296,486 people.
Maryland's capital is
Annapolis,
which has a population of 35,838. Other important cities are
Baltimore (pop.
651,154), Aspen Hill (pop. 50,228),
Bethesda (pop.
55,277),
Columbia
(pop. 88,254), Dundalk (pop. 62,306), Ellicott City (pop. 56,397),
Frederick (pop.
52,767), Germantown (pop. 55,419), Bowie (pop. 50,269) and
Gaithersburg (pop.52,613).
Maryland was admitted to the Union on April, 28th, 1788 as the 7th state. It's bordered by
Delaware on the east,
West Virginia to the west,
Pennsylvania to the north and
Virginia to the south. The state flower
is the "Black Eyes Susan" and it's nickname is "Old Line State".
Maryland's economy is broken into two categories; agriculture and industry. Seafood,
poultry and eggs, dairy products, nursery stock, cattle, soybeans and corn provide for the
agricultural side. While electric equipment, food processing, chemical products, printing
and publishing, transportation equipment, machinery, primary metals, coal and tourism
provide for the industrial side.