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Section sizes

Section size for New Jersey (84 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	19,804	19,804
History	2,286	36,357
Colonial era	5,333	5,333
Revolutionary War era	7,734	7,734
19th century	5,071	5,071
20th century	6,524	6,524
21st century	9,409	9,409
Geography	6,081	23,632
Prominent geographic features	800	800
Climate	4,333	6,614
Climate change	2,281	2,281
Administrative divisions	499	10,137
Counties	1,798	1,798
Municipalities	7,840	7,840
Demographics	19	69,958
Population	10,156	10,156
Race and ethnicity	29,309	29,309
Birth data	4,369	4,369
Languages	10,629	10,629
Sexual orientation and gender identity	6,961	6,961
Religion	8,515	8,515
Economy	829	39,176
Affluence	725	725
Fiscal policy	6,396	6,396
Federal taxation disparity	1,580	1,580
Industries	3,145	29,646
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	6,247	6,247
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	4,479	4,479
Natural resources and energy	1,901	1,901
Education	3,582	10,185
Educational standards	6,603	6,603
Environment	705	705
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	16,175
General	7,272	7,272
Cuisine	3,476	3,476
Music	5,105	5,105
Sports	628	16,355
Professional sports	8,305	8,305
Major league sports	958	958
Minor league sports	925	925
College sports	83	4,850
Major schools	3,579	3,579
Other schools	1,188	1,188
High school	689	689
Stadiums and arenas	983	1,316
Other notable sports venues	333	333
Government and politics	63	26,839
Executive	1,980	1,980
Legislative	1,169	1,169
Judicial	2,608	2,608
Counties	3,496	3,496
Municipalities	1,489	6,451
Forms of municipal government	4,962	4,962
Politics	48	11,072
Social attitudes and issues	5,010	5,010
Elections	4,781	4,781
Capital punishment	1,233	1,233
Points of interest	23	9,541
Boardwalks	2,566	2,566
Museums	949	949
National Park Service areas	1,150	1,150
Entertainment and concert venues	1,154	1,154
Theme parks	3,699	3,699
See also	198	198
Notes	47	47
References	28	28
External links	60	2,961
State government	910	910
U.S. government	788	788
Other	1,203	1,203
Total	285,363	285,363

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"Religion in New Jersey" is inconsistent[edit]

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[edit]

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

First paragraph of history should not be there![edit]

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]