New Jersey
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New Jersey
Official Name
State of New Jersey
Aliases
The Garden State; "Joisey"
Location Details
Universe
Galaxy
Star System
Planet
Country
State
New Jersey
Characteristics
Dimensions
Area: 8,729 sq mi (22,608 km²)
Length: 150 miles (240 km)
Width: 70 miles (110 km)
Length: 150 miles (240 km)
Width: 70 miles (110 km)
Population
8,414,350 (8,717,925 as of 2005)
Population Density: 1,134/sq mi 438/km² (1st)
Population Density: 1,134/sq mi 438/km² (1st)
First appearance
Unknown
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History
New Jersey is one of the fifty states in the United States of America and is located on the East Coast. Southern New Jersey is home to one of the country's most infamous locales - Gotham City.[1]
Points of Interest
- Clay Banks
- Clay Banks is a small New Jersey neighborhood and the former headquarters of the criminal known as the Hooded Hunchback. In 1942, Starman unveiled a plot to murder the heirs to the Hetty Taylor fortune and traced the crime back to the Hooded Hunchback's tower. [2]
- Newark City College
- Newark City College is the alma mater of former athlete turned Cyborg Victor Stone.[citation needed]
- New Jersey Palisades
- The New Jersey Palisades are a line of steep cliffs along the west side of the lower Hudson River in northeast New Jersey and southern New York in the United States. The Fearsome Five once maintained their headquarters in a cave along the cliffs.[citation needed]
- Gotham City
- Gotham City is conterminous with the gambling resort Atlantic City and the greater Atlantic County area. However unlike the real Atlantic City, Gotham maintains its own subway system. During the "Knightfall" saga, the Joker and the Scarecrow once escaped the clutches of Batman (Jean-Paul Valley) by hiding inside one of South Jersey's most venerable landmarks - Lucy the Elephant.
- See also: Gotham City Locales
- Hoboken
- Hoboken is a city in Hudson County, New Jersey. Hoboken lies on the west bank of the Hudson River across from the Manhattan, New York City neighborhoods of the West Village and Chelsea between Weehawken Cove and Union City at the north and Jersey City at the south and west. Hoboken is the former base of operations for Doctor Will Magnus, the original Matches Malone (before Batman assumed his identity) and former Blackhawk Squadron pilot Carlos Sirianni.[citation needed]
- Princeton
- Princeton is home to Princeton University, one of the finer institutes of higher learning and the alma mater of a few of the world's heroes.[3]
- See also: Category:Princeton/Appearances
Residents
- See also: Gotham Characters
