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The geographically largest and most populous peninsula in the United States is the Florida Peninsula, which is approximately 50,000 square miles and contains about 17 million persons.
Other US peninsulas with populations of a quarter million or more include:
The Lower Peninsula of Michigan (9.5 million)
The state of New Jersey (8.8 million)
The San Francisco Peninsula (1.5 million)
Pinellas Peninsula, Florida (900,000) - includes St. Petersburg - a peninsula on a peninsula
Delmarva Peninsula, DE/MD/VA (700,000)
Virginia Peninsula (475,000) - includes Hampton and Newport News
The Upper Peninsula of Michigan (300,000)
Marin Peninsula, California (250,000)
Note: The well-known Olympic Peninsula of Washington has just over 100,000 residents.
The geographically largest and most populous peninsula in the United States is the Florida Peninsula, which is approximately 50,000 square miles and contains about 17 million persons.
Other US peninsulas with populations of a quarter million or more include:
The Lower Peninsula of Michigan (9.5 million)
The state of New Jersey (8.8 million)
The San Francisco Peninsula (1.5 million)
Pinellas Peninsula, Florida (900,000) - includes St. Petersburg - a peninsula on a peninsula
Delmarva Peninsula, DE/MD/VA (700,000)
Virginia Peninsula (475,000) - includes Hampton and Newport News
The Upper Peninsula of Michigan (300,000)
Marin Peninsula, California (250,000)
Note: The well-known Olympic Peninsula of Washington has just over 100,000 residents.
Cape Cod is around 250,000 because it is Barnstable County+ a few towns
Note: The well-known Olympic Peninsula of Washington has just over 100,000 residents.
Way more than that. It is almost 500,000 if you also include a peninsula that shoots off the Olympic Peninsula. Without the Kitsap Peninsula (a little under 300,000 people), there is closer to 200,000 people. Draw a line from the southern tip of Puget Sound in Tumwater to where the Chehalis River flows directly west into Grays Harbor to find its boundaries. That includes Aberdeen, the west side of Olympia, and all portions of Mason County not on the Kitsap Peninusla or Hartstine Island.
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Just did the math: Olympic Peninsula (and all mainland off-shoots) - 526,000 in 2010
My information was taken from the website of the Peninsula Daily News, which states: "The North Olympic Peninsula population crested over the 100,000 mark in the 2010 Census. The combined population of Jefferson and Clallam counties was 101,276 in the count taken last year — compared with 90,478 in 2000." Could it be that the actual peninsula consists of more than two counties?
My information was taken from the website of the Peninsula Daily News, which states: "The North Olympic Peninsula population crested over the 100,000 mark in the 2010 Census. The combined population of Jefferson and Clallam counties was 101,276 in the count taken last year — compared with 90,478 in 2000." Could it be that the actual peninsula consists of more than two counties?
That's just the northern half of the peninsula, and it includes islands (near a thousand people) in that figure. The Olympic Peninsula and off shoots include Clallam, Jefferson (minus islands), Mason (minus Hartstine Island), Kitsap (minus Bainbridge Island) , northern Grays Harbor County (north of harbor, river, Black Hills), the mainland west sound portions of Pierce County (Gig Harbor area), and the NW corner of Thurston County.
El Paso is closer to two US state capitals and two Mexican state capitals than it is to its own capital of Austin.
Amarillo is closer to Wichita, Oklahoma City, Denver, and Albuquerque than it is to Austin. It's also closer to Cheyenne, Wyoming and Chihuahua (city) than it is to Houston.
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