Delaware and Pennsylvania share the status as the two earliest states to be admitted into the then-newfound United States of America. However, Delaware was first, and Pennsylvania would become second. While Delaware was admitted separately and into an independent state, colonial Delaware was extremely linked with and connected to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Although both colonies had been represented through a shared William Penn heritage, Delaware was largely semiautonomous, with the Three Lower Counties on the Delaware effectively serving as Pennsylvanian access to the open Atlantic Ocean.
While Pennsylvania is the fifth-largest U.S. state by population, Delaware is ranked sixth-smallest. Also, the sizes are vastly different, with Pennsylvania containing a significantly larger land area overall than Delaware. Even though the population density may vary dramatically between the two (2) states, the vast rural stretches at the northern edge of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania result in a lower average population density than the State of Delaware, the latter of which is only surpassed by New Jersey, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, and a number of United States Territories as well as the District of Columbia. In comparison, however, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is ultimately at a significantly lower population density, for which Florida and New York are ahead of the Commonwealth while Delaware is ahead of both. Interestingly, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is of a nearly identical population density to that of western neighbor Ohio, while the State of Delaware does not have a comparable state in terms of population density. In terms of land area, however, of the fifty states, Pennsylvania is ranked thirty-second, while Delaware is ranked forty-ninth, ahead of only Rhode Island. As with the population density dichotomy, the land area dichotomy is every bit as important, in which the State of Delaware is the larger of the states by land area that are still smaller than the Territory of Puerto Rico 🇵🇷. While Rhode Island and New Jersey are located fairly nearby and are the only states with a higher population density than Puerto Rico, neither Pennsylvania nor Delaware can compare to the Puerto Rican population count, which exceeds the latter as well as around eighteen (18) other states.
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