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Connecticut
Connecticut is surrounded on the west by New York State, on the south by Long Island Sound, on the east by Rhode Island, and on the north by Massachusetts. Hartford is the state capital, and the other major cities include New London, New Haven, New Britain, Stamford, Milford, Norwalk, Norwich, Bridgeport, Danbury and Waterbury. In Connecticut There are 169 incorporated towns.
Bear Mountain in Salisbury which is the highest peak in Connecticut is in the northwest area of the state. The highest peak is immediately east of where New York, Massachusetts, and Connecticut meet , specifically 42° 3' N; 73° 29' W, resting on the southern incline of Mount Frissell, whose summit lies close by in Massachusetts.
The Connecticut River slices throughout the center of the state, gushing into Long Island Sound, Connecticut's channel to the Atlantic Ocean.
Highest point in Connecticut on the incline of Mount Frissell, as perceived from Bear Mountain
Despite its dimension, the state has regional differences in its culture and backdrop from the prosperous lands of Fairfield County's "Gold Coast" en route for horse-farms and the rolling mountains of the Litchfield Hills of northwest Connecticut. Connecticut's country areas and undersized towns in the northwest and northeast corners of the state difference harshly with its business cities, located next to the coastal highways from the New Haven to New York border, then northward to Hartford, in addition to further up the coast next to New London. Many towns center on a "green," for example the New Haven Green, Wethersfield Green which is the oldest in the state, Simsbury Green, Lebanon Green which the largest in the state, and Litchfield Green. close to the green normally stand historical image signs of New England towns, for example a small white church, a colonial tavern or "inn" ,a colonial meeting house quite a few colonial houses, and so on, establishing a picturesque historicity maintained for both the tourism trade and historic preservation.
The northern border of the state with Massachusetts is noticeable by the unique Granby Notch or Southwick Jog, an about 2.5 mile or 4.0 km square deviation into Connecticut a little west of the center of the border. The real origin of this irregularity is unsure, with stories ranging from having attempted to avoid hostile Native Americans, having taken a shortcut up the Connecticut River or the original surveyors having been drunk,; Massachusetts inhabitants having tried to evade Massachusetts' elevated taxes for the lesser taxes of Connecticut; Massachusetts' attention in the property represented by the Congamond Lakes which rests on the border of the jog; and the have to to balance Massachusetts for a sum of land given to Connecticut due to erroneous survey work.
The southwestern boundary of Connecticut, where it is adjacent to New York State, is noticed by a panhandle in Fairfield County, having the towns of Darien, Stamford, New Canaan and Greenwich. This abnormality in the border is the product of territorial disagreements in the late 1600s, concluding with New York giving up its ownership of the area, whose residents believed themselves part of Connecticut, in trade for a corresponding area extending northwards starting at Ridgefield, Connecticut to the Massachusetts border as well as undeniable ownership of Rye, New York.
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