Delmarva Peninsula

38°30′N 75°40′W / 38.500°N 75.667°W / 38.500; -75.667

A map of the Delmarva Peninsula map with the Eastern Shore of Virginia (in yellow), the Eastern Shore of Maryland (in orange), and part of Delaware (also in yellow)

The Delmarva Peninsula, or simply Delmarva, is a large peninsula on the East Coast of the United States, occupied by the vast majority of the state of Delaware and parts of the Eastern Shore of Maryland and Eastern Shore of Virginia.

The peninsula is 170 miles (274 km) long. In width, it ranges from 70 miles (113 km) near its center, to 12 miles (19 km) at the isthmus on its northern edge, to less near its southern tip of Cape Charles. It is bordered by the Chesapeake Bay on the west, Pocomoke Sound on the southwest, and the Delaware River, Delaware Bay, and the Atlantic Ocean on the east.

The population of the twelve counties entirety on the peninsula totals approximately 818,000 people as of the 2020 census.


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