Atlantic City is a city in Atlantic County, southeastern New Jersey, United States. Famous for its boardwalk, casino gambling, sandy beaches, and spectacular view of the Atlantic Ocean. It is the inspiration for the board game Monopoly, Atlantic City is a resort community located on Absecon Island on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. In 1921 it hosted the first Miss America Beauty Pageant. The ten-mile-long island is separated from the mainland by a narrow strait and several miles of meadows partly covered with water at high tide. According to the 2007 US Census Bureau estimate, the population was 40,517 in the city, and 271,015 in the Atlantic City–Hammonton metropolitan statistical area.

Source: New World Encyclopedia