Located in the Northeastern region of the U.S. and bordered by Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Atlantic Ocean, Delaware is the second smallest, the sixth least populous, but the sixth most densely populated of the 50 United States. It is interesting that most of the boundary with Pennsylvania was defined by an arc extending 12 miles from the cupola of the courthouse in the city of New Castle. Its name comes from Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, Virginia's first colonial governor.
