About Delaware
Delaware is a small state on the Eastern Coast of the United States, bordered by Atlantic Ocean to the east and Delaware Bay to the west. With a surface area of 5,068 km2 (width 13-48 km, height 161 km), it consists of three counties: New Castle, Kent, and Sussex County.
The state’s capital is Dover, but the largest city is Wilmington, nowadays practically a suburb of the nearby Philadelphia. There are 800,000 inhabitants in Delaware. Neighboring states are Maryland, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The drive from Wilmington to Washington, D.C. or New York is a matter of a couple of hours.
Though Delaware is known by the name First State (as it was the first of the initial 13 colonies to ratify the United States Constitution), it is the 49th if measured by surface area; only Rhode Island is smaller. In that respect, the sole reason why Delaware is noteworthy is the fact that due to the state’s business-friendly legislation and taxation it is home to the majority of big businesses in the U.S., with a significant portion of all financial transactions at some point passing through Delaware banks and institutions.