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DE · Capital Dover · 3 counties · Eastern time · Letter or A4
Printable Delaware map
Delaware — three counties, one capital, and the only state whose northern border is an arc — printed on one page with Dover, Wilmington and Newark marked.
What prints
Delaware is the second-smallest state, so the sheet prints it large. The outline is a narrow strip on the Delmarva Peninsula, about 100 miles long and 35 miles across at its widest, bounded by the Delaware River and Bay on the east and the Atlantic on a short southern coast. Only three counties exist — New Castle, Kent and Sussex — and their two boundary lines print as clean horizontal divisions. Dover is the capital star in Kent County. The Major cities layer adds Wilmington and Newark, both in New Castle County near the Pennsylvania line; the state has few other cities of size, so the key table below is shorter than usual.
Page orientation
Delaware should be printed in portrait. The state is roughly three times as tall as it is wide, and in portrait it fills the height of a Letter or A4 sheet while leaving margins for notes on either side. In landscape the map is reduced to about a third of the page and the arc border becomes hard to see. There is no need to zoom; the default page view already fits the whole state.
What is labeled
- The state name and abbreviation DE.
- Dover, marked as capital in the centre of Kent County.
- Wilmington and Newark on the Major cities layer.
- The three county borders and the state boundary.
- The Twelve-Mile Circle — the arc centred on New Castle that forms the border with Pennsylvania — and the straight Mason-Dixon lines with Maryland.
The circular northern border is the sheet's most recognisable feature and is worth pointing out: it is the only state boundary in the US drawn as an arc. The western border with Maryland is the Transpeninsular Line's midpoint meridian, and the southern one is the Transpeninsular Line itself, both surveyed before Mason and Dixon finished their work. County seats and details are on the county map; the blank Delaware map strips everything out.
Key: capital and largest cities
| Place | Note | Latitude | Longitude |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dover | State capital, Kent County | 39.2°N | 75.5°W |
| Wilmington | Largest city, Christina and Delaware rivers | 39.7°N | 75.5°W |
| Newark | New Castle County, near the Maryland line | 39.7°N | 75.7°W |
| Middletown | Southern New Castle County | 39.5°N | 75.7°W |
| Smyrna | Kent County, north of Dover | 39.3°N | 75.6°W |
| Milford | Mispillion River, Kent and Sussex line | 38.9°N | 75.4°W |
Related maps
- Blank Delaware map — the same outline with every label removed.
- Delaware map — the interactive page with borders, geography and regions.
- Delaware county map — all 3 counties with seats.
- Dover — capital page.
- Mason-Dixon Line — the surveyed borders with Maryland and Pennsylvania.
- South Atlantic division, Mid-Atlantic and the Eastern Time Zone.
- All printable US maps — national sheets: labeled, capitals, regions, time zones, rivers.