Population: 9.3 million
Capital: Trenton
Largest City: Newark
Major Industries: Pharmaceuticals, life sciences, financial services, advanced manufacturing, information technology, and transportation and logistic
New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York; on the east, southeast, and south by the Atlantic Ocean; on the west by the Delaware River and Pennsylvania; and on the southwest by Delaware Bay and the state of Delaware.
User Groups
| Location | Linux User Group |
|---|---|
| Clifton | New Jersey Linux User Group holds their monthly group meeting on the last Wednesday of every month. They also have some other member meetings at different times. |
| Woodbridge | New Jersey Red Hat Users Group is focused on bringing together the NJ Red Hat user community for business and technical presentations, conversations food and drink. |
The state was named in honor of British colonist George Carteret, who’d previously been governor of Jersey, a self-governing dependency of the United Kingdom.