Salisbury

City and administrative headquarters of Wicomico County, southeastern Maryland, on the Wicomico River, in the south-central part of the Delmarva Peninsula, near the Delaware border; population (1990) 20,600. Its economy is primarily agricultural; regional farms produce poultry, fruits, and vegetables. Industries process foods and manufacture textiles, cabinets, plastics, service station equipment, and printed computer forms.

Founded in 1732, Salisbury developed as a distribution centre for the peninsula, and was long the second port of Maryland. Salisbury State University (1925) is here.