Dover, Delaware
Dover (/ˈdoʊvər/ DOH-vər) is the capital and second-most populous city of the U.S. state of Delaware.[3] 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–Wilmington–Camden, PA–NJ–DE–MD, combined statistical 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 2020, its population was 39,403.
This article is about the capital of Delaware. For other uses, see Dover (disambiguation).
Dover
1683
1717
23.97 sq mi (62.09 km2)
23.67 sq mi (61.30 km2)
0.30 sq mi (0.79 km2)
30 ft (9 m)
39,403
1,664.82/sq mi (642.79/km2)
152,255
10-21200
217882[2]
Etymology[edit]
The city is named after Dover, Kent, in England. First recorded in its Latinised form of Portus Dubris, the name derives from the Brythonic word for waters (dwfr in Middle Welsh). The same element is present in the town's French (Douvres) and Modern Welsh (Dofr) forms.