Delaware definitely does exist. You can find it by googling Salem, NJ, getting maps, then moving slowly west and bit north from Salem, past Supawna Meadows National Wildlife Center and there you will find a half square mile of uninhabited land clearly labeled Delaware.
Incidentally, Salem is SW from Philly, which most people claim is not possible.
New Jersey is way too small a state to have 3 separate sections.
There are really just two divisions - Jersey (the decaying cities and industrial/refining hellhole to the west of NYC and environs) and South Jersey.
Rumor has it that there is pretty forested/semi-mountainous country in the extreme north, but that’s really just part of New York State that drifted south over the line during the Pleistocene era.
If you, of all people, assert the existence of a Central New Jersey, you should be prepared for the obvious follow-up question as to its location.
I’ve met multiple people who, if you ask them where they’re from, will tell you Philadelphia. And it’s only once you ask for more specifics about where in Philadelphia, that they admit that they’re in an entirely different state.
Delaware exists but many people think it does not because it used to close on some days. I believe the cost of maintaining a state which consists of nothing but it’s existence as a state was too high to keep it open all day, every day. This led some people to believe it didn’t actually exist.
We moved to Pennington after 2 years. And said that was between Princeton and Trenton.
Princeton has become a tourist trap, over-expensive, full of chain stores. When we lived there there were lots of independent stores.
But we have a lot of people. We’re around 9 million people.
South Jersey is pretty rural though and Central Jersey is pretty much pure suburbs except for Middlesex that’s actually Urban.
There are 2 regions in New Jersey. There are the places within an hour’s drive of Newark Airport. And there is everywhere else.
If HBO has taught me anything, it’s that Tony Soprano controls North Jersey and Nucky Thompson controls South Jersey.
Who controls Central Jersey?
Why the Boss of course, Bruce Springsteen.
Between 78 and 195. Next question.
The 1676 Quintipartite Deed, dividing the future state into East Jersey and West Jersey, got it exactly right. Nothing’s changed much since:
(Scroll down to second map)
I doubt whether the residents of Union, Springfield, Newark (Southern part), Elizabeth, Rahway, Roselle, Cranford, Scotch Plains, Watchung, or Pohatcong consider themselves members of the Central Jersey community.
My dad’s from Teaneck, my moms from Atlantic City (actually Margate) and my aunt lived in Princeton. Those are three very different arras.
Are you kidding? I live in an entire country the size of NJ with at least 10 different sections. You just have to put some effort into it.
Wow - a border depending strongly on traffic on the Turnpike!
I traveled a lot for work, and lived pretty much equidistant from EWR and PHL. So distance to Newark Airport was very significant to me.
Rt 78 is too far North on the eastern side. Woodbridge is probably the northern town of Central Jersey, so around exit 132 on the Parkway living up to my user name.
The southern end of Central Jersey goes a bit further than Rt 195. The question is, is it Pt. Pleasant, Brick or Toms River? Some say it is all of Ocean County though that seems a bit much. Tuckerton is clearly South Jersey. Toms River & Seaside Heights are probably the south border on the eastern side of Central Jersey. So probably exit 77 as the furthest that Central Jersey goes south.
Burlington is pretty much South Jersey.
Here is the NJ.com attempt to define it, Here are the North, Central and South Jersey borders as determined by you (INTERACTIVE) - nj.com
**In conclusion, I think Central Jersey is a state of mind. **And without any question I am in it.
So… what is the Central Jersey state of mind?
Also, what’s the quintessential Central Jersey city? Trenton? (That used to be South Jersey.)
This rail line map from NJ transit seems somehow relevant: https://www.njtransit.com/sf/sf_servlet.srv?hdnPageAction=TrainSchedulesMapTo
Maybe Metropark is near the southern border of North Jersey?
ETA: How long has Central Jersey existed?
Central Jersey is probably a post-war phenom when suburbia really reached into Monmouth and then Ocean counties. Toms River is about the southern most town that has a fairly large number of commuters live in that crawl into NYC each day.
Before WWII Monmouth and Ocean were very rural and agricultural and really fit pretty well into the South Jersey concept rather then their own thing. Middlesex already had some real population and probably once Central Jersey became a concept was pulled into the concept as it straddles the Raritan River.
Middlesex is tricky though as a lot of it is urban now and Central Jersey is mostly suburban bedroom communities.
You beat me to it. Wikipedia article here:
That’s because you never said it to me.
Yardville is a couple blocks down the road from me, just past Acme.
ETA: Of course, posting my own location as “Trenton, NJ” proves your point. 
ETA2: Thoroughly Central NJ though!