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State of the E USA; nickname Old Line State
or Free State area 31,600 sq km/12,198 sq mi
capital Annapolis towns Baltimore, Silver
Spring, Dundalk, Bethesda features Chesapeake
Bay, an inlet of the Atlantic; horse racing
(the Preakness Stakes at Baltimore); yacht
racing at Annapolis; Fort Meade, a government
electronic-listening centre products fruit,
cereals, tobacco, fish, oysters population
(1986) 4,463,000 famous people Francis Scott
Key, Stephen Decatur, H L Mencken, Upton
Sinclair history one of the original Thirteen
Colonies, first settled 1634; it became a
state 1788.