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Longest east-west: 198.6 miles-Fairfax Stone to Delaware Line. Longest north-south: 125.5 miles-Pennsylvania line to Virginia line at Smith Point on south shore mouth of Potomac River.
Maryland is bordered by Pennsylvania in the north, Delaware and the Atlantic Ocean in the east, the Atlantic Ocean and Virginia in the south, and West Virginia in the west. The state can be divided into five geographical regions. The Mid-Atlantic Coastal Plain spreads across the south and east of the state.
Charles Mason and Jeremiah surveyed the Mason-Dixon Line in 1763 to determine the border between Pennsylvania and Maryland. In 1767 the Mason-Dixon Line was established as Maryland's northern border.
Maryland State has a total land area of 12,407 square miles which is occupied by approximately six million Marylanders. The Chesapeake Bay, the largest estuary in America, dominates the eastern side of Maryland. Maryland borders four states: Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia, and West Virginia.
The Calvert family, which controlled Maryland, and the Penn family, which controlled Pennsylvania, decided in 1750 to engage two surveyors, Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, to establish a boundary. They surveyed what became known as the Mason–Dixon Line, which became the boundary between the two colonies.
Maryland is bordered by Delaware, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Virginia, and the District of Columbia.
Sixteen of Maryland's 23 counties and Baltimore City border on tidal water. The Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries follow 11,684 miles of shoreline and 4,480 square miles of surface area. Such an extensive shoreline allows for over 700 public access points on the Chesapeake Bay.
It borders the states of Virginia to its south, West Virginia to its west, Pennsylvania to its north, Delaware and the Atlantic Ocean to its east, and the national capital and federal district of Washington, D.C. to the southwest.
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