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Encyclopedia: Essex County, New Jersey |
 | | Essex County is also one of the most urban and densely populated counties in the nation, and is the second most urban and second most densely populated county in the state, both after Hudson County. |
 | | The county is one of the most Italian counties in America, with nearly 50% of residents in several towns of the West Essex area and in the "Pasta Triangle" (Bloomfield, Belleville, and Nutley) area being of Italian descent. |
 | | Though a majority of the county that practices religion is Christian, the county is also among the most Jewish places in the nation, concentrated in the SW Essex towns of Short Hills, Millburn, South Orange, West Orange, Maplewood, and especially Livingston, where the population is reportedly nearly 60% Jewish. |
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