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Section sizes

Section size for Delaware (67 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	14,453	14,453
Etymology	1,724	1,724
History	95	24,414
Native Americans	1,850	1,850
Colonial Delaware	3,824	3,824
American Revolution	3,693	3,693
Slavery and race	5,817	5,817
Reconstruction and industrialization	4,742	4,742
World War II to present	4,393	4,393
Geography	4,731	10,292
Topography	1,787	1,787
Climate	1,736	1,736
Environment	1,085	1,085
Environmental management	953	953
Municipalities	317	6,178
Counties	169	169
Cities	444	444
Towns	1,557	1,557
Villages	156	156
Unincorporated places	3,535	3,535
Demographics	8,600	28,576
Race and ethnicity	5,494	5,494
Birth data	4,652	4,652
Languages	1,231	1,231
Sexual orientation	1,288	1,288
Religion	7,311	7,311
Economy	110	11,619
Affluence	1,907	1,907
Agriculture	262	262
Industries	1,208	5,503
Industrial decline	4,295	4,295
Incorporation in Delaware	2,645	2,645
Food and drink	1,192	1,192
Media	11	1,607
Newspapers	340	340
Television	816	816
Radio	440	440
Tourism	5,007	5,007
Education	3,468	3,864
Colleges and universities	396	396
Transportation	3,473	17,636
Roads	6,062	6,062
Ferries	503	503
Rail and bus	4,626	4,626
Air	2,972	2,972
Law and government	466	16,110
Legislative branch	726	726
Judicial branch	2,522	2,522
Executive branch	1,002	1,002
Counties	1,405	1,405
Politics	3,988	3,988
Freedom of information	1,725	1,725
Taxation	2,523	2,523
Voter registration	1,753	1,753
Culture and entertainment	30	2,602
Festivals	45	45
Sports	2,527	2,527
Foreign Affairs	21	1,455
Sister State	1,434	1,434
Delawareans	455	455
See also	194	194
Notes	24	24
References	28	28
Bibliography	165	165
External links	67	2,441
History	155	155
General	2,219	2,219
Total	148,844	148,844

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Local food ? Culinary specialties of this state ?

I visited this page by chance, via the one on the President of the USA who is sleeping near my house tonight, and I cannot find what are the culinary specialties, the local food of this state. Cordially, --94.109.142.116 (talk) 03:24, 24 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Geography references

Gannett, Henry (1905). The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States (PDF) (Report). U.S. Government Printing Office.
L. W. HECK, A. J. WRAIGHT, D. J. ORTH,J. R. CARTER, L. G. VAN WINKLE, and JANET HAZEN (1966). Delaware Place Names (PDF). Geological Survey Bulletin 1245 (Report). Government Printing Office (U.S.A.).{{cite report}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
Boyd, William Henry (1874), The Delaware State Directory and Gazetteer for 1874-1875, Commercial printing Company
Gannett, Henry (1904). A Gazetteer of Delaware (Issue 230 of Geological Survey bulletin) (Report). U.S. Government Printing Office.
Federal Writers' Project (2013), The WPA Guide to Delaware: The First State, Trinity University Press (reprint), ISBN 9781595342072
Indigenous, European, and American Place Names of Streams and Waterways in Delaware (PDF) (Report). University of Delaware. 2021.
"Alphabetical Index of Subdivisions" (PDF). Delaware Department of Transportation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-04-19. Retrieved 2009-07-07.
Zelby, Frank R. (1947), Churches of Delaware (PDF)
These Are 30 of the Hottest Neighborhoods in Delaware
"Alphabetical Index of Subdivisions" (PDF). Delaware Department of Transportation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-04-19. Retrieved 2009-07-07.
Susan Mulchahey Chase, David LAmes, Rebecca J. Siders (June 1992). "Suburbanization in the Vicinity of Wilmington, Delaware, 1880-1950+/-:A Historic Context". Newark, Delaware: University of Delaware Center for Historic Architecture and Engineering College of Urban Affairs and Public Policy. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
"Plan and Specification for Street Sweeping 2018-2019" (PDF). Delaware Department of Transportation. 2017. Retrieved September 20, 2021. Djflem (talk) 07:13, 17 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Area of Delaware?

The recent edit is misleading, because it does not distinguish between land area and water+land. The U.S.Census publishes several tables which present this information clearly, e.g., State Area Measurements and Internal Point Coordinates. TEDickey (talk) 20:30, 12 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Buff

Can someone link the color buff in state colors to the wiki page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buff_(colour) 73.247.62.171 (talk) 14:49, 19 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. Done. GreenLoeb (talk) 15:37, 29 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

misused term

The term "concentrated" says in effect that African-Americans are found in Wilmington in a higher percentage than anywhere else in Delaware. The provided source has no relevant information to support this statement (and is by the way redundant for the subsequent comment given the other sources in the topic). TEDickey (talk) 18:55, 9 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Southeastern United States

If you are gonna keep on adding Delaware as a state in the Southeastern United States, then you should be doing the same action to Maryland's page too. The truth is, majority of Americans would probably not associate Maryland and Delaware as a Southern state, rather solely a Mid-Atlantic state given its proximity to other fellow Mid-atlantic cities like NYC, DC, Baltimore and Philadelphia. As long as those two states are within the territories of even the Northeast Megalopolis, both states are 100% not Southeastern. Maybe you should do an eye check, because if the Mason-Dixon Line defines the South's separation from the North, then Delaware is a northern state and should not even be close to having any affinity with the South(east). 2404:E801:2003:2EB1:38D0:D9AB:9A78:3B09 (talk) 13:30, 19 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The US Census lists Delaware as part of the Southern region. Most of Delaware is south of the Mason-Dixon line that forms most of the southern border of Pennsylvania. Delaware was once a slave-holding state. Stop with the WP:WHATABOUTX arguments. If either article needs to be fixed, it would then be the Maryland article.

You also need to learn how to use the edit summary. Peaceray (talk) 15:45, 19 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]