Ocean City has a population of about 7000, a vacationer population of about 35,000 and 8 million visitors.Ītlantic City, New Jersey, is on Absecon Island and is somewhat bigger than Ocean City. Atlantic City has a population of about 40,000 and 30 million visitors.
Both are in Mid-Atlantic states.īoth places have quite small resident populations, but this is vastly outweighed by the hundreds of thousands of vacationers and day visitors. Atlantic City, New Jersey, and Ocean City, Maryland, are two of the major resorts on the Eastern coast of the United States.