Location
North America; on the east coast of the United States
Population
336.023.460 (2022)
National currency
US dollar
Conditional reduction of currency
USD
Climate, average max and min t°
Temperate; winters are quite long and cool, with temperatures sometimes dropping below 0 and rising to +6. Summers here are also not very hot, the average temperature stays around +20-+31
Time difference from Moscow
- 7 hours
Ethnic groups
79.96% European; 12.85% Black; 4.43% Asian; 0.97% American Indian and Alaska Native; 0.18% Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander; 1.61% other.
History
Before Europeans arrived, the state was settled by the Algonquin tribes of the Lenape (better known as the Delawares), who occupied the entire Delaware Plain, and the Nanticoke, who lived along the rivers flowing into the Chesapeake Bay.
The first Europeans on the territory of the future state were the Dutch, who in 1631 founded the colony of Swanendal (Dutch: "valley of swans") on the site of modern Luis. Just one year later all the settlers were killed in a conflict with the Indians. In 1638, the Swedes, under the leadership of the former governor of New Netherland, Peter Minuy, established the trading post and colony of Christina, their first settlement in North America. In addition to the Swedes and Dutch, the Finns (whose country was then part of Sweden) and Germans also participated in colonization. In 1651 the Dutch established Fort Casimir in the immediate vicinity - in what is now New Castle. A year later, the Dutch landed in the area and annexed New Sweden. Nine years later, in 1664, the Dutch were defeated by a fleet of British ships. Title to the land that later became the state of Delaware was granted in 1682 by James, Duke of York, to William Penn. The land was then part of the colony of Pennsylvania. Penn established a government and briefly consolidated his two estates under the control of the Commonwealth in 1682.
Delaware was one of 13 colonies that rebelled against British rule during the War of Independence.
Executive branch
The governor of the state
Legislative branch
State General Assembly
Judicial branch
Supreme Court, Superior Court, Chancery Court, Family Court, Civil Court, and small non-constitutional courts (magistrates' courts and elders' courts)
GDP per capita rank
11 (2020)
Corruption perceptions index rank
67 (2021)
