40°44N 74°10W, pop (2000e) 273 500. Seat of Essex Co, NE New Jersey, USA; port on the Passaic R and Newark Bay; largest city in the state (but a 16% decline in population between 1980 and 1990); an important road, rail, and air centre; settled by Puritans from Connecticut, 1666; city status, 1836; scene of race riots, 1967; airport; railway; university (1934); chemicals, electrical equipment; insurance and financial centre; linked to New York City by underground rail; Trinity Cathedral, Newark Museum.
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Newark-on-Trent, England,
The original Newark, often just called 'Newark' Newark, Jamaica Newark, New Zealand
USA
Newark, New Jersey
, the largest "Newark" in this list Newark Liberty International Airport, formerly Newark International Airport Newark, Arkansas Newark, California Newark, Delaware
Newark, Illinois Newark, Maryland Newark, Missouri Newark, New York Newark, Ohio Newark, Texas Newark, Vermont Newark, Wisconsin
Former
Port Glasgow, Scotland, was called
Newark until 1667 Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada, was once called
Newark
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