Delaware
A river flowing from the Catskills through New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware in the northeastern United States and emptying into the Atlantic Ocean at Delaware Bay.
The Lenape people, the indigenous people of Lenapehoking, in what is now the Mid-Atlantic United States.
Two closely related Algonquian languages of these people, Munsee and Unami.
The first state of the United States. Capital: Dover. Largest city: Wilmington.
A river in the United States that flows from northeast Kansas into the Kansas River.
A city, the county seat of Delaware County, Ohio.
A city in Delaware County, Iowa.
A town in Sullivan County, New York.
A town in Nowata County, Oklahoma.
An unincorporated community in Ripley County, Indiana.
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The river in the northeastern United States was named for Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr (1577–1618). The people and the state were named for the river.
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