South Jersey and the wider Philadelphia metropolitan area have become a U.S. North Jersey is generally described as including the counties north of South Jersey that fall within the New York metropolitan area. South Jersey may be defined geographically as the area below I-195 that includes the state's lower seven counties: Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester, and Salem.
īenjamin Franklin called the state "a barrel tapped at both ends". South Jersey is part of the Philadelphia metropolitan area, the seventh-largest metropolitan region in the nation with 6.288 million residents in the core metropolitan statistical area and 7.366 million residents in the combined statistical area as of 2020. The designation of South Jersey with a distinct toponym is a colloquialism rather than an administrative definition and reflects geographical and perceived cultural and other differences between South Jersey and the northern part of the state. state of New Jersey located between the lower Delaware River in the west and the Atlantic Ocean in the east. South Jersey comprises the southern portion of the U.S. A September 2007 aerial view of Atlantic City, a seaside resort famous for its boardwalk and casino gambling
For the southern part of the British island of Jersey, see Geography of Jersey. This article is about a region in the United States.
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