Delaware Bay
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bay on the east coast of the United States
Key facts
- Type
- Bay
- Primary inflows
- Delaware River
- Basin countries
- United States
- Surface area
- 782 square miles (2,030 km )
- Surface elevation
- 0 feet (0 m)
- Official name
- Delaware Bay Estuary
- Designated
- 20 May 1992
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- bay
- Part of
- Atlantic Ocean
- Named after
- Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Cape May County
- Area
- 2032
- Image
- Chesapeakelandsat.jpeg
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- heritage designation
- Ramsar site
- mouth of the watercourse
- Atlantic Ocean
- Commons category
- Delaware Bay
- discoverer or inventor
- Henry Hudson
- time of discovery or invention
- 1609-00-00
- native label
- Delaware Bay
- basin country
- Delaware
- P8168
- Betsy Brantley
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Delaware Bay is the estuary outlet of the Delaware River on the northeast seaboard of the United States, lying between the states of Delaware and New Jersey. Approximately 782 square miles (2,030 km) in area, the bay's freshwater mixes for many miles with the saltwater of the Atlantic Ocean.
The bay is bordered inland by the states of Delaware and New Jersey, and its mouth is framed by Cape Henlopen in Delaware and Cape May in New Jersey, on the Atlantic. Delaware Bay is bordered by six counties: Sussex, Kent, and New Castle in Delaware, and Cape May, Cumberland, and Salem in New Jersey. The Cape May–Lewes Ferry crosses Delaware Bay from North Cape May, New Jersey, to Lewes, Delaware. The bay's ports are managed by the Delaware River and Bay Authority.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Delaware Bay” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.