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Section sizes

Section size for New Jersey (85 sections)
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(Top)	19,744	19,744
History	44	36,351
Prehistoric era	2,171	2,171
Colonial era	5,333	5,333
Revolutionary War era	7,736	7,736
19th century	5,119	5,119
20th century	6,539	6,539
21st century	9,409	9,409
Geography	6,086	23,550
Prominent geographic features	800	800
Climate	4,273	6,552
Climate change	2,279	2,279
Administrative divisions	473	10,112
Counties	1,799	1,799
Municipalities	7,840	7,840
Demographics	19	70,212
Population	9,877	9,877
Race and ethnicity	29,618	29,618
Birth data	4,510	4,510
Languages	10,657	10,657
Sexual orientation and gender identity	6,892	6,892
Religion	8,639	8,639
Education	3,155	9,913
Educational standards	6,758	6,758
Economy	710	39,329
Affluence	953	953
Fiscal policy	6,397	6,397
Federal taxation disparity	1,581	1,581
Industries	3,145	29,688
Scientific economy	2,262	2,262
Corporate and retail	1,815	1,815
Shipping, manufacturing, and logistics	695	695
Tourism	1,622	1,622
Gambling	6,293	6,293
Media	146	7,480
Television and film production	4,670	4,670
Newspapers	1,560	1,560
Radio stations	72	72
Television stations	1,032	1,032
Finance as Wall Street West	4,473	4,473
Natural resources and energy	1,903	1,903
Environment	1,119	1,119
Transportation	243	12,086
Roadways	5,191	5,191
Airports	1,543	1,543
Rail and bus	4,014	4,014
Ferries	1,095	1,095
Culture	322	16,530
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Cuisine	3,478	3,478
Music	5,479	5,479
Sports	628	16,367
Professional sports	8,317	8,317
Major league sports	958	958
Minor league sports	925	925
College sports	83	4,850
Major schools	3,579	3,579
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High school	689	689
Stadiums and arenas	983	1,316
Other notable sports venues	333	333
Government and politics	63	26,675
Executive	1,943	1,943
Legislative	1,169	1,169
Judicial	2,608	2,608
Counties	3,506	3,506
Municipalities	1,489	6,456
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Politics	48	10,930
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Capital punishment	975	975
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Boardwalks	2,611	2,611
Museums	949	949
National Park Service areas	1,150	1,150
Entertainment and concert venues	1,154	1,154
Theme parks	3,906	3,906
See also	198	198
Notes	47	47
References	28	28
External links	60	2,902
State government	911	911
U.S. government	788	788
Other	1,143	1,143
Total	286,160	286,160

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"Religion in New Jersey" is inconsistent

The section on "Religion in New Jersey seems internally inconsistent. The text states "By number of adherents, the largest religious traditions in New Jersey, according to the 2010 Association of Religion Data Archives, were the Roman Catholic Church with 3,235,290; Islam with 160,666; and the United Methodist Church with 138,052.[156]." However, the graphic to the right of this tells a different story, showing the largest groups as Catholic, Protestant, unaffiliated and Jewish, in descending order. There might be some way to reconcile these two orderings, by carefully changing the classifications (splitting Jews and Christians into multiple subcategories), but this is still not a good look. Per the graph, Muslims are 3% of the population; it would take an awful lot of subcategories of Protestant for each subcategory to be smaller than the Muslim population. At the least, the text seems somewhat misleading.

Spencer Klein, Berkeley 2601:644:600:65F0:AE:C0EA:918F:12B9 (talk) 19:53, 22 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

5th smallest state

Should be 4th smallest state 2A0D:6FC7:41F:9CDA:4371:768:E182:7CA4 (talk) 12:28, 20 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@2A0D:6FC7:41F:9CDA:4371:768:E182:7CA4 Source?? -Lemonaka 03:32, 15 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You'll need to give a source for this info. There are those who say that it's 4th-smallest by land area, but it's 5th-smallest by total area, which is what is generally used. Lindsey40186 (talk) 04:01, 15 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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In the History section, please remove the sentence “ Around 180 million years ago, during the Jurassic Period, New Jersey bordered North Africa.” This is not mentioned in the source provided. Also please add the subheading of “Prehistoric era”. 2600:100C:A216:3864:78B2:C9B5:2A6A:71BA (talk) 22:06, 2 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done ABG (Talk/Report any mistakes here) 02:31, 19 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

First paragraph of history should not be there!

Why does it start 180 million years ago with geography? Does not belong. Every other state page starts with natives. Odd addition. Parrski (talk) 04:43, 11 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Why doesn't it belong? Is there a problem with the WP:RS? Kire1975 (talk) 07:17, 11 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Chronologically, it makes more sense to start with geography, since the lands formed before the people came. I've checked a few states and they each had sections talking about the geography of the area. Lindsey40186 (talk) 03:55, 15 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

12th or 11th most populous?

The article currently claims that NJ is the 12th most populous state, although it recently said 11th. This is strange, given this claim links to the article showing states by population, which puts NJ at 11th. What's with the discrepancy? FiveInParticular (talk) 22:22, 20 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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 :Why doesn't it belong? Is there a problem with the [[WP:RS]]? [[User:Kire1975|Kire1975]] ([[User talk:Kire1975|talk]]) 07:17, 11 June 2024 (UTC)
 :Chronologically, it makes more sense to start with geography, since the lands formed before the people came. I've checked a few states and they each had sections talking about the geography of the area. <span style="font-family: Courier; background-color: black; padding: 2px 3px 1px 3px;">[[User:Lindsey40186|<span style="color: white"><b>Lindsey40186</b></span>]] [[User talk:Lindsey40186|<span style="color: white">(talk)</span>]]</span> 03:55, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
+== 12th or 11th most populous? ==
+The article currently claims that NJ is the 12th most populous state, although it recently said 11th. This is strange, given this claim links to the article showing [[List of U.S. states and territories by population|states by population]], which puts NJ at 11th. What's with the discrepancy? [[User:FiveInParticular|FiveInParticular]] ([[User talk:FiveInParticular|talk]]) 22:22, 20 June 2024 (UTC)