15 Surprising Facts About New Jersey.

Most commonly nicknamed “The Garden State,” New Jersey was the 3rd state to join the United States of America on December 18, 1787.

It has a population of 8,882,190 people (as of 2019), making it the 11th most populous state. New Jersey is bordered by the states of Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New York.

With 8,722 square miles (22,591 square kilometers) of land and water, it is the 47th largest state.

The capital of New Jersey is Trenton, situated centrally in the state.

That’s enough fast facts about the Garden State for now; we’re here to learn some of the more interesting facts!

Modern theorists agree that most of the Americas were settled by a group of people referred to as the Paleo-Indians.

These early settlers made their way into the Americas from the far east of modern-day Russia, where they crossed the Bering Strait into modern-day Alaska between 15,000 and 10,000 BC.

They slowly spread further and further south and settled in North and South America from this point.

The region now known as New Jersey was underneath a great sheet of ice until around 13,000 BC, and it was after this ice sheet receded, that the Paleo-Indians moved into the region.