The Garden State is full of quirky, illogical geographical entities
South Hackensack, which is located in three different parts of Begen County, is less than three-quarters of a square mile in area. Think you know a lot about New Jersey's 565 municipalities and 21 counties?
In a state that's home to five Washington townships, two named Monroe and two which call themselves Fairfield, Jersey geography can be a tricky thing.
Of course, you can't always go by a name to pinpoint where a landmark is located. After all, Voorhees Township is in Camden County. Yet Voorhees High School is more than 75 miles away in Lebanon Township, Hunterdon County.
And do we really need tiny burgs like South Hackensack, East Newark, and West Cape May where you could blink and have passed through them? Still, those obscure locales are actual municipalities, unlike West Trenton (that's a section of Ewing).
None of these quirky Garden State tidbits should be particularly surprising since we can't even agree on what constitutes north, central and South Jersey. All corners of the state are covered in our 10-question quiz, though:
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