New Jersey is a peninsula.

 New Jersey has the highest population density in the US. An average of
 1,030  people per sq. mi., which is 13 times the national average.
 
 Highlands, New Jersey, has the highest elevation along the entire eastern
 seaboard, from Maine to Florida.
 
 New Jersey has the highest percentage urban population in the US with
 about 90% of the people living in an urban area.
 
 New Jersey is the only state where all its counties are classified as
 metropolitan areas.
 
 New Jersey has more race horses than Kentucky.

 New Jersey has more Cubans in Union City (1 sq. mi.) than Havana, Cuba.
 
 North Jersey is the car theft capital of the world, with more cars stolen
 in Newark then any other city. Even more than the 2 largest cities, NYC
 and  LA  put together.
 
 New Jersey has the most dense system of highways and railroads in the US.
 
 New Jersey has 108 toxic waste dumps, which is the most in any one state
 in the nation.
 
 New Jersey has the most diners in the world and is sometimes referred
 to as the diner capital of the world.
 
 North Jersey has the most shopping malls in one area in the world with
 seven major shopping malls in a 25 square mile radius.
 
 New Jersey is home to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island.
 
 The Passaic River was the site of the first submarine ride by inventor 
 John P. Holland.
 
 New Jersey has over 50 resort cities and towns, some of the nations most
 famous, Asbury park, Wildwood, Atlantic City, Seaside Heights, Cape May.

 New Jersey is a leading industrial state and is the largest chemical
 producing state in the nation.

 New Jersey is a major seaport state with the largest seaport in the US
 located in Elizabeth.
 
 The light bulb, phonograph (record player), motion picture projector were
 invented by Thomas Edison in his Menlo Park laboratory.

 The first sea-plane was built in Keyport.

 The first air-mail to Chicago was started from Keyport.
 
 The first phonograph records were made in Camden.
 
 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.
 
 New Jersey has the largest petroleum containment area outside of the
 Middle East countries.
 
 The first Indian reservation was in New Jersey.
 
 New Jersey has the tallest water tower in the world.
 
 New Jersey had the first Medical Center, Jersey City.
 
 The Pulaski Sky Way (first sky way highway) runs from Jersey City to
 Newark.
 
 The first tunnel under the Hudson River. (Holland Tunnel).

 The invention and manufacturing of the Colt Revolver was in Paterson.
 
 New Jersey is the only state in the nation which offers child abuse
 prevention workshops to every public school.

 The first baseball game was played in Hoboken.

 The first intercollegiate football game was played in New Brunswick in
 1889.  Rutgers College played Princeton.  Rutgers won.
 
 The first Drive-in Movie theater was opened in Camden.
 
 Home to two of NEW YORK'S Pro Football Teams.
 
 The first radio station and broadcast was in Paterson.

 Unofficially divided into two parts... this side and that side of the
 Parkway bridge.
 
 Jack Nicholson, Bruce Springsteen, Jon Bon Jovi, Jason Alexander, Queen
 Latifa, Shaq, Judy Blume, Aaron Burr, Joan Robertson, Joseph Czesnik,
 Dr. Carl Gedon, John Milewski, Ken Kross, Dionne Warwick, Sarah Vaughn,
 Marilynn McCoo, Flip Wilson, Alexander Hamilton, Whitney Houston,
 Eddie Money,  Frank Sinatra, Eileen Donnely, Grover Cleveland, Woodrow
 Wilson,  Walt Whitman,  Jerry Lewis, Richard Wojewodzki, Joyce Kilmer,
 Bruce Willis, Caesar  Romero,  Lou Costello, Nick Adams, Nathan Lane,
 Sandra Dee, Danny DaVito, Richard Conti, Joe Pesci, Robert Blake,
 John Forsyth, Meryl Streep, Loretta Swit,  Norman Lloyd, Jerry Herman,
 Gorden McCrae, Kevin Spacey, John Travolta, Phyllis Newman, and
 Patsy Locke are all New Jersey natives.

 And last but not least....
 New Jersey produces the most beautiful women in the world!