About Maryland...
Maryland is a state located in the Mid Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia and the District of Columbia in the south and west, north, Pennsylvania, Delaware and in the east. Historically it was part of the Chesapeake Colonies where planters cultivated tobacco as a cash crop dependent on slave labor. comparable size to the European country of Belgium. According to U.S. Census Bureau, Maryland has the highest median household income of any state in the $ 68,080 in 2007, overtaking New Jersey in 2006.
This was the seventh state to ratify the Constitution of the United States and two bear nicknames, the Old Line State and the Free State. His history as a border state has led ga exhibiting characteristics and the northern and southern regions of the United States. In general, rural Western Maryland like the West virginian panhandle of southern and eastern regions Shore Maryland mimic a Southern culture, while densely-populated Central Maryland-radiated out from Baltimore and Washington Beltway-exhibits characteristics of the northeast.
Maryland is a life sciences hub with over 350 biotechnology companies, as the third-largest such cluster in the nation. Institutions and agencies located throughout Maryland include University System of Maryland, The Johns Hopkins University, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, celery Genomics, the human genome Science, J. Craig Venter Institute, food and medicine, MedImmune, National Institutes of Health and National Institute of Standards and technology.
Maryland Facts
Capital : Annapolis > Find Lodging
Population : 5,600,388
Nick Name : Free State; Old Line State
Motto : Fatti maschii, parole femine (Manly deeds, womanly words)
Official Website : http://www.mdisfun.org/
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