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Fast Facts about New Jersey

Largest Towns:

  • Camden, Cherry Hill, Dover Township, Edison Township, Elizabeth, Hamilton, Harrison, Jersey City, New Brunswick, Newark, Paterson, Perth Amboy, Plainfield, Princeton, Trenton, Woodbridge Township

Business:

  • New Jersey ranked fourth in the total number of patents.
  • New Jersey ranked first in patents per capita in 2002.
  • New Jersey leads the nation in patents granted for instrumentation and electrical equipment.
  • New Jersey is first in the nation in electronics research and development.
  • New Jersey is among the top-five states in the number of electronics manufacturing facilities.
  • The first light bulb, phonograph, motion picture projector, color television, transistor, videotape recorder, and liquid crystal display were invented in New Jersey.
  • There are nearly 2,700 software and software related companies in New Jersey.
  • New Jersey was the eighth-largest exporting state in 2001 with total exports of $25.9 billion.
  • More than 250 million tons of cargo is shipped from New Jersey every year.
  • New Jersey is ranked third in the country for warehouse and distribution facilities.
  • Nearly half of the nation's R&D investment of $15+ Billion in new medicines is committed to New Jersey.
  • New Jersey pharmaceutical companies were responsible for more than one third of all the drugs and biologics approved by the U.S. FDA in 2002.

Education:

  • In New Jersey nearly 90% of high school students graduate from high school.
  • New Jersey high schools rank second in the U.S. in terms of student graduation.
  • Nearly 30% of all New Jersey adults hold at least a bachelor's degree.
  • New Jersey has twenty-two community colleges
  • New Jersey has 57 higher education universities and college.

General:

  • New Jersey is home to the Miss America pageant held in Atlantic City.
  • Atlantic City is where the street names came from for the game monopoly.
  • Atlantic City has the longest boardwalk in the world.
  • The first baseball game was played in Hoboken.
  • The first intercollegiate football game was played in New Brunswick, in 1869.
    (Rutgers College played Princeton. Rutgers won.)
  • The first drive-in movie theatre was opened in Camden.

 

 

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