Dover ( DOH-vər) is the capital and the second-most populous city of the U.S. state of Delaware, after Wilmington. It is also the county seat of Kent County and the principal city of the Dover metropolitan statistical area, which encompasses all of Kent County and is part of the Philadelphia metropolitan area. It is located on the St. Jones River in the Delaware River coastal plain. It was named by William Penn for Dover in Kent, England (for which Kent County is named). As of 2024, its population was estimated as 40,191.
From the Wikipedia article Dover, Delaware, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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ERA5 reanalysis from Copernicus, via Open-Meteo. Modelled on a ~25 km grid, not measured at a station.
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CAMS European and global air quality forecast, via Open-Meteo. Modelled on an 11–40 km grid; European AQI bands from the EEA.
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Articles with coordinates within 10 km, from English Wikipedia.
Towns around Dover
- Middletown36 km NW
- Bridgeton39 km NE
- Millville50 km NE
- South Vineland53 km NE
- Bear54 km N
- Vineland56 km NE
- Elkton57 km NW
- Newark62 km N
Straight-line distance and compass bearing from the town centre.