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.