Dover International Speedway is also home to the Firefly Music Festival, a 4-day music festival which attracts a large number of visitors to the city.ĭover has a humid subtropical climate with four seasons. The city is home to Dover Downs, a hotel and casino that has a harness racetrack located inside Dover International Speeedway, a 1-mile-long racetrack that is home to a NASCAR race weekend which attracts tens of thousands of race fans to the city. To the east of Dover is the Delaware Bay, which is home to marshland and wildlife areas. To the west of Dover are rural areas that are home to several Amish families and businesses.
As such, there is a sizable military presence in the city.
Dover Air Force Base is home to the 436th Airlift Wing of the Air Mobility Command and the 512th Airlift Wing of the Air Force Reserve Command and contains the largest military mortuary in the United States. Dover is also home to Dover Air Force Base, in the southeastern part of the city. Dover is home to several historic sites and recreational areas are nearby.Īs the state capital, the state government is a major employer in Dover and there are many government offices in the area.
It is in the central part of the state in Kent County, approximately midway between Wilmington and Rehoboth Beach.
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