Maryland, with its six million plus residents, may not be the biggest state, but even before the creation of the United States, the colony’s location in the mid-Atlantic was key to its economic prosperity.
While the state’s central location on the Eastern seaboard is still vital for companies like Amazon and its massive Baltimore-area shipping enterprise, the proximity to another center, the federal capital, provides Maryland with its most important source of large employers.
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