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Maryland Counties

Counties

County Basics

The tables below feature information about every in . (Note: Louisiana is divided into parishes, Alaska into boroughs.) The first table lists each ’s name, the seat, area in square miles, area in square kilometers (km), population density (number of people per square mile), density per square kilometer (km) and population. County (or parish, borough) seats that also serve as state capitals are highlighted in yellow. The second table focuses on race.

You can see this information for all fifty states at Reference > North America > USA > Counties. Also, see the Counties home page.
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Name Seat Area (km) Density (km) Pop(2000) Pop(1990)
Allegany Cumberland 425 1,102 176 68 74,930 74,946
Anne Arundel Annapolis 416 1,077 1,027 397 489,656 427,239
Baltimore Towson 599 1,550 1,156 446 754,292 692,134
Baltimore City Baltimore 81 209 9,108 3,517 651,154 736,014
Calvert Prince Frederick 215 557 239 92 74,563 51,372
Caroline Denton 320 829 84 33 29,772 27,035
Carroll Westminster 449 1,163 275 106 150,897 123,372
Cecil Elkton 348 902 205 79 85,951 71,347
Charles La Plata 461 1,194 219 85 120,546 101,154
Dorchester Cambridge 558 1,444 54 21 30,674 30,236
Frederick Frederick 663 1,717 227 88 195,277 150,208
Garrett Oakland 648 1,679 43 17 29,846 28,138
Harford Bel Air 440 1,141 414 160 218,590 182,132
Howard Ellicott City 252 653 743 287 247,842 187,328
Kent Chestertown 279 724 64 25 19,197 17,842
Montgomery Rockville 495 1,281 1,531 591 873,341 757,027
Prince George’s Upper Marlboro 486 1,260 1,499 579 801,515 729,268
Queen Anne’s Centreville 372 964 91 35 40,563 33,953
Somerset Princess Anne 327 848 72 28 24,747 23,440
St. Mary’s Leonardtown 361 936 210 81 86,211 75,974
Talbot Easton 269 697 114 44 33,812 30,549
Washington Hagerstown 458 1,187 265 102 131,923 121,393
Wicomico Salisbury 377 977 197 76 84,644 74,339
Worcester Snow Hill 473 1,226 74 29 46,543 35,028
(Source: U.S. Census Bureau)

Race

The table below lists the population of various ethnic and cultural groups in : Native American (American Indian, Eskimo and Aleut), white (Caucasian), black (African American), Asian American, Pacific Islander, “Some Other Race,” people whose ancestry includes two or more races, and Hispanic.
County Native White Black Asian PI Other Race2 Hisp
Allegany 114 69,702 4,006 390 19 140 559 571
Anne Arundel 1,455 397,789 66,428 11,225 310 4 8,285 12,902
Baltimore 1,923 561,132 151,600 23,947 242 4 10,763 13,774
Baltimore City 2,097 205,982 418,951 9,985 222 4 9,554 11,061
Calvert 220 62,578 9,773 655 21 368 948 1,135
Caroline 110 24,322 4,398 163 5 376 398 789
Carroll 330 144,399 3,433 1,134 28 471 1,102 1,489
Cecil 280 80,272 3,361 593 25 430 990 1,306
Charles 907 82,587 31,411 2,192 70 869 2,510 2,722
Dorchester 70 21,302 8,708 202 1 119 272 385
Frederick 404 174,432 12,429 3,269 61 1 2,876 4,664
Garrett 22 29,496 128 57 7 26 110 131
Harford 498 189,678 20,260 3,313 129 1 3,212 4,169
Howard 583 184,215 35,730 19,037 87 2 5,435 7,490
Kent 28 15,288 3,343 103 9 199 227 546
Montgomery 2,544 565,719 132,256 98,651 412 43 30,117 100,604
Prince George’s 2,795 216,729 502,550 31,032 447 27 20,884 57,057
Queen Anne’s 90 36,120 3,560 232 10 173 378 444
Somerset 92 13,949 10,172 116 4 118 296 334
St. Mary’s 291 70,320 12,003 1,553 67 525 1,452 1,720
Talbot 60 27,720 5,193 270 45 259 265 615
Washington 239 118,348 10,247 1,050 55 611 1,373 1,570
Wicomico 185 61,438 19,717 1,478 18 678 1,130 1,842
Worcester 86 37,791 7,754 282 9 170 451 596
(Source: U.S. Census Bureau)


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