History įor a chronological guide, see Timeline of Newark, New Jersey. Newark's Branch Brook Park is the oldest county park in the United States and is home to the nation's largest collection of cherry blossom trees, numbering over 5,000. Newark is divided into five political wards (East, West, South, North and Central) and contains neighborhoods ranging in character from bustling urban districts to quiet suburban enclaves.

Local cultural venues include the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, Newark Symphony Hall, the Prudential Center, The Newark Museum of Art, and the New Jersey Historical Society.

The United States District Court for the District of New Jersey is also located in the city. Several companies have their headquarters in Newark, including Prudential, PSEG, Panasonic Corporation of North America,, IDT Corporation, Manischewitz and AeroFarms.Ī number of higher education institutions are also in the city, including the Newark campus of Rutgers University (which includes law and medical schools and the Rutgers Institute of Jazz Studies) University Hospital (formerly the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey which included the schools of medicine and dentistry now under Rutgers University) the New Jersey Institute of Technology and Seton Hall University's law school. Newark Liberty International Airport was the first municipal commercial airport in the United States, and today is one of its busiest. Today, Port Newark–Elizabeth is the primary container shipping terminal of the busiest seaport on the U.S. Its location at the mouth of the Passaic River (where it flows into Newark Bay) has made the city's waterfront an integral part of the Port of New York and New Jersey. Settled in 1666 by Puritans from New Haven Colony, Newark is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The Population Estimates Program calculated a population of 305,3, making it the 66th-most populous municipality in the nation. As of the 2020 census, the city's population was 311,549, an increase of 34,409 (+12.4%) from the 2010 census count of 277,140, which in turn reflected an increase of 3,594 (+1.3%) from the 273,546 counted in the 2000 census. state of New Jersey and the seat of Essex County.

Newark ( / ˈ nj uː ər k/ NEW-ərk, locally ) is the most populous city in the U.S.

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