Know as: Garden State

Capital: Trenton

Governor / Senators / Secy. of State / Atty. General

Resident population est. 8,143,412

Population under 18: 23.3%; 65 and over: 13.4%; median age: 34.3%

State Symbols: 
flower: purple violet (1913)
bird: eastern goldfinch (1935)
insect: honeybee (1974)
tree: red oak (1950)
animal: horse (1977)
colors: buff and blue (1965)
folk dance: square dance
dinosaur: hadrosaurus foulkii
fish: brook trout
shell: knobbed whelk

State parks: 35 (67,111 ac.)