- The State of Connecticut is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.
- Total Area: 48th among states, 14,359 sq km (5,544 sq mi)
- Southwestern Connecticut is part of the New York metropolitan area; three of Connecticut's eight counties, including most of the state's population, are in the New York City combined statistical area, commonly called the Tri-State Region
- In 1898 the first car insurance in America is issued at Hartford.
- Connecticut's center of population is in Cheshire, New Haven County.
- The New Haven District Telephone Company published the first telephone book ever issued on February 1878, in New Haven.
- Connecticut is the 29th most populous state, with 3.4 million residents, and is ranked 48th in size by area, making it the 4th most densely populated state.
- The first automobile law was passed in 1901. The speed limit was set at 12 miles per hour. In 1937, Connecticut became the first state to issue permanent license plates for cars.
- Called the Constitution State and the Nutmeg State,[1] Connecticut has a long history dating from early colonial times and was influential in the development of the federal government.
- Cattle branding began in Connecticut when farmers were required by law to mark all of their pigs.
- The first major settlements were established in the 1630s by the English.
- The first cookbook written by an American was published in Hartford in 1796. The book was American Cookery by Amelia Simmons.
- Connecticut enjoys a temperate climate due to its long coastline on Long Island Sound.
- Connecticut is home to the oldest US newspaper still being published: the Hartford Courant, established in 1764. It is also home to the first hamburger (1895), Polaroid camera (1934), helicopter (1939), and color television (1948).
- Connecticut have the highest per capita income, Human Development Index, and median household income in the country.
- Connecticut was a major producer of military machinery during the Cold War and was the first producer of nuclear-powered submarines.
- Connecticut is bordered on the south by Long Island Sound, on the west by New York State, on the north by Massachusetts, and on the east by Rhode Island.
- Inventor Eli Whitney began manufacturing his cotton gins, which revolutionized the economy of the South, at New Haven in 1793.
- The state capital is Hartford, and the other major cities include Bridgeport, New Haven, Stamford, Waterbury, Norwalk, Danbury, New Britain and Bristol.
- In the mid-1990s Connecticut led the nation in per capita wealth.
- The highest peak in Connecticut is Bear Mountain in Salisbury in the northwest corner of the state.
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