Newark, New Jersey

Newark is the lairgest ceety in New Jersey, Unitit States, an the coonty seat o Essex Coonty. Newark haes a population o 278,154, makin it the lairgest municipality in New Jersey an the 68t lairgest ceety in the U.S.

Newark is locatit in the hert o New Jersey's Gateway Region. It is approximately 8 miles (13 km) wast o Manhattan (New York Ceety). Its location near the Atlantic Ocean on Newark Bay haes helped make its port facility, Port Newark, the major container shippin facility for the New York metropolitan aurie (Port of New York and New Jersey), an the lairgest on the East Coast. It is the hame o Newark Liberty Internaitional Airport, ane o the first major airports in the Unitit States, an ane o the busiest the day. Newark is hame tae major corporations such as Prudential Financial an PSE&G, an well as several major universities such as Rutgers University an New Jersey Institute o Technology, cultural institutions, an sports venues.

This ethnically diverse ceety is dividit intae five wards, an contains a variety o neighborhuids rangin in character frae bustlin urban destricts tae quiet suburban enclaves.

Internaitional relations

Twin touns - sister ceeties

Newark haes eleiven sister ceeties, as designatit bi Sister Cities International:

• Freeport, Bahamas
• Douala, Cameroon
• Xuzhou, Fowkrepublic o Cheenae
• Aveiro, Portugal
• Belo Horizonte, Brazil
• Banjul, Gambie
• Kumasi, Ghana
• Porto Alegre, Brazil
• Monrovia, Liberie
• Ganja, Azerbaijan
• Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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