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Connecticut is a small state, full of charm, rural beauty and several major cities. The state's top tourist attractions include Yale University, which maintains numerous world-class museums, Mystic Seaport, the restaurant and nightlife scene in downtown , The Maritime Aquarium, and two major Native American casinos.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Hartford and New Haven.

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is the capital of the state of Connecticut in the United States of America. It is home to the country's oldest public art museum, and the Mark Twain House, in which the author wrote his most famous works and raised his family.

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is a city in the U.S. state of Connecticut. It is located on on the northern shore of . With a population of 134,023 at the 2020 census, it is the third-most populous city in Connecticut and the largest in the , with the metropolitan area having an estimated 577,000 residents.

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is a city in Connecticut. has beaches and parks, but the biggest attraction is the Klein Memorial Auditorium, a performing arts theater.

Destinations to Discover

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CT River Valley is in the states of Connecticut, , and , in the US. It features the region surrounding the Connecticut River's two largest cities, and .

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is a county of Connecticut in the , and is home to some of the wealthiest suburbs in the country.

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The comprise a geographic region in the northwestern corner of the U.S. state of Connecticut. It is roughly coterminous with the boundaries of Litchfield County, for which it is named.

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is the metropolitan area whose extent includes those towns in the U.S. state of Connecticut that share an economic, social, political, and historical focus on the city of .

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is in Connecticut.

Connecticut

Latitude of center
41.65° or 41° 39′ 0″ north
Longitude of center
-72.7342° or 72° 44′ 3″ west
Population
3,680,000
Elevation
148 feet (45 metres)
Abbreviation
“CT”
Open­Street­Map ID
node 316945353
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
4831725
Wiki­data ID
Q779
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Connecticut” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Connecticut”
  • Albanian: “Connecticut”
  • Albanian: “Kënektikëti”
  • Amharic: “ኮነቲከት”
  • Arabic: “كونيتيكت”
  • Aragonese: “Connecticut”
  • Armenian: “Կոնեկտիկուտ”
  • Arpitan: “Connecticut”
  • Asturian: “Connecticut”
  • Aymara: “Connecticut suyu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Konnektikut”
  • Balinese: “Connecticut”
  • Bashkir: “Коннектикут”
  • Basque: “Connecticut”
  • Bavarian: “Connecticut”
  • Belarusian: “Канектыкут”
  • Belarusian: “Канэктыкут”
  • Bengali: “কানেটিকাট”
  • Betawi: “Konèktikat”
  • Bhojpuri: “कनेक्टिकट”
  • Bishnupriya: “কানেকটিকাট”
  • Bislama: “Connecticut”
  • Bislama: “Konektikat”
  • Bosnian: “Connecticut”
  • Breton: “Connecticut”
  • Bulgarian: “Кънектикът”
  • Burmese: “ကွန်နက်တီကတ်ပြည်နယ်”
  • Burmese: “ကွန်​နက်​တီ​ကတ်​ပြည်နယ်”
  • Catalan: “Connecticut”
  • Cebuano: “Connecticut”
  • Central Bikol: “Connecticut”
  • Central Kurdish: “کۆنێتیکت”
  • Chavacano: “Connecticut”
  • Chechen: “Коннектикут”
  • Cherokee: “ᎧᏁᏓᎨᏗ”
  • Chinese: “Connecticut”
  • Chinese: “康乃狄克州”
  • Chinese: “康涅狄格州”
  • Chinese: “康湼狄格州”
  • Chuvash: “Коннектикут”
  • Cornish: “Connecticut”
  • Corsican: “Connecticut”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Konnektikut”
  • Croatian: “Connecticut”
  • Czech: “Connecticut”
  • Czech: “State of Connecticut”
  • Dagbani: “Connecticut”
  • Danish: “Connecticut”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Connecticut”
  • Dutch: “Connecticut”
  • Dutch: “CT”
  • Eastern Mari: “Коннектикут”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كونيتيكت”
  • Esperanto: “CT”
  • Esperanto: “Konektikuto”
  • Estonian: “Connecticut”
  • Faroese: “Connecticut”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Connecticut”
  • Finnish: “Connecticut”
  • French: “Connecticut”
  • Gagauz: “Connecticut”
  • Gagauz: “Konnektikut”
  • Galician: “Connecticut”
  • Georgian: “კონექტიკუტი”
  • German: “Conn.”
  • German: “Connecticut”
  • German: “CT”
  • German: “State of Connecticut”
  • Gothic: “𐌺𐌰𐌿𐌽𐌰𐌹𐍄𐌴𐌹𐌺𐌰𐍄”
  • Greek: “Κονέκτικατ”
  • Guarani: “Connecticut”
  • Gujarati: “કનેક્ટિકટ”
  • Haitian: “Konèktikòt”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Connecticut”
  • Hausa: “Connecticut”
  • Hawaiian: “Konekikuka”
  • Hebrew: “קונטיקט”
  • Hindi: “कनेक्टिकट”
  • Hungarian: “Connecticut”
  • Icelandic: “Connecticut”
  • Ido: “Connecticut”
  • Igbo: “Kónétíkùt”
  • Iloko: “Connecticut”
  • Inari Sami: “Connecticut”
  • Indonesian: “Connecticut”
  • Interlingua: “Connecticut”
  • Interlingue: “Connecticut”
  • Inupiaq: “Connecticut”
  • Inupiaq: “Kanaatikut”
  • Irish: “Connecticut”
  • Italian: “Connecticut”
  • Japanese: “コネチカット州”
  • Javanese: “Connecticut”
  • Kabiyè: “Kɔnɛtɩkuti”
  • Kabyle: “Connecticut”
  • Kalmyk: “Канетикуд”
  • Kannada: “ಕನೆಕ್ಟಿಕಟ್”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Коннектикут”
  • Kazakh: “Коннектикут”
  • Khmer: “ខុនណេកទីខាត់”
  • Kirghiz: “Коннектикут”
  • Komering: “Connecticut”
  • Korean: “코네티컷”
  • Korean: “코네티컷주”
  • Korean: “코넥티커트”
  • Kurdish: “Connecticut”
  • Ladin: “Connecticut”
  • Ladino: “Connecticut”
  • Latin: “Connecticuta”
  • Latvian: “Konektikuta”
  • Ligurian: “Connecticut”
  • Limburgan: “Connecticut”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Connecticut”
  • Literary Chinese: “康乃狄克州”
  • Lithuanian: “Konektikutas”
  • Lombard: “Connecticut”
  • Low German: “Connecticut”
  • Low German: “Konnektikut”
  • Luxembourgish: “Connecticut”
  • Macedonian: “Конектикат”
  • Maithili: “कनेक्टिकट”
  • Malagasy: “Connecticut”
  • Malagasy: “Kaonektikioty”
  • Malay: “Connecticut”
  • Malayalam: “കണെക്റ്റിക്കട്ട്”
  • Manipuri: “ꯀꯟꯅꯦꯛꯇꯤꯀꯠ”
  • Manx: “Connecticut”
  • Maori: “Connecticut”
  • Maori: “Konetikati”
  • Marathi: “कनेटिकट”
  • Mazanderani: “کنتیکت”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Connecticut”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Connecticut”
  • Minangkabau: “Connecticut”
  • Mingrelian: “კონექტიკუტი”
  • Mongolian: “Коннектикут”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “كونيكتيكاط”
  • Nauru: “Connecticut”
  • Navajo: “Kanédikiʼ Hahoodzo”
  • Nepali: “कनेक्टिकट”
  • Newari: “कनेक्टिकट”
  • Newari: “कनेक्तिकत”
  • Northern Frisian: “Connecticut”
  • Northern Luri: “کانتیکت”
  • Northern Sami: “Connecticut”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Conn.”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Connecticut”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “CT”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Connecticut”
  • Norwegian: “Connecticut”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Connecticut”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܟܘܢܝܬܝܟܬ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Ceneticūt”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Connecticut”
  • Ossetian: “Коннектикут”
  • Pali: “कनेक्टिकट”
  • Pampanga: “Connecticut”
  • Panjabi: “ਕਨੈਟੀਕਟ”
  • Papiamento: “Connecticut”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Connecticut”
  • Persian: “کانتیکت”
  • Persian: “کنتیکت”
  • Picard: “Connecticut”
  • Piemontese: “Connecticut”
  • Polish: “Connecticut”
  • Portuguese: “Coneticute”
  • Portuguese: “Connecticut”
  • Pushto: “کنیټیکټ”
  • Quechua: “Connecticut suyu”
  • Romanian: “Connecticut”
  • Romansh: “Connecticut”
  • Russia Buriat: “Коннектикут”
  • Russian: “Коннектикут”
  • Samogitian: “Konektėkots”
  • Sanskrit: “कनेक्टिकट्”
  • Sardinian: “Connecticut”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Connecticut”
  • Scots: “Connecticut, Unitit States”
  • Scots: “Connecticut”
  • Scots: “CT”
  • Scots: “State o Connecticut”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Connecticut”
  • Serbian: “Конектикат”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Connecticut”
  • Sicilian: “Connecticut”
  • Silesian: “Connecticut”
  • Sindhi: “ڪنيڪٽيڪٽ”
  • Sindhi: “ڪونيڪٽيڪٽ”
  • Sinhala: “කනෙක්ටිකට්”
  • Sinhala: “කොන්නේස්ටිකට්”
  • Slovak: “Connecticut”
  • Slovenian: “Connecticut”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کانتیکت ایالتی”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کانتیکت”
  • Spanish: “Connecticut (Estados Unidos)”
  • Spanish: “Connecticut”
  • Spanish: “CT”
  • Spanish: “El Estado Constitucional”
  • Spanish: “Estado de Connecticut”
  • Swahili: “Connecticut”
  • Swedish: “Connecticut”
  • Tagalog: “Connecticut”
  • Tajik: “Коннектикут”
  • Talysh: “Konnektikut”
  • Tamil: “கனெக்டிகட்”
  • Tamil: “கனெடிகட்”
  • Tatar: “Коннектикут”
  • Telugu: “కనెక్టికట్”
  • Telugu: “కనెటికట్”
  • Thai: “รัฐคอนเนตทิคัต”
  • Thai: “รัฐคอนเนทิคัต”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Konetikati”
  • Turkish: “Conn.”
  • Turkish: “Connecticut eyaleti”
  • Turkish: “Connecticut, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri”
  • Turkish: “Connecticut”
  • Turkish: “CT”
  • Turkish: “State of Connecticut”
  • Turkish: “US-CT”
  • Uighur: “Konnéktikat Shitati”
  • Ukrainian: “Коннектикут”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Connecticut”
  • Urdu: “کنیکٹیکٹ”
  • Uzbek: “Konnektikut”
  • Venetian: “Connecticut”
  • Vietnamese: “Connecticut”
  • Vlaams: “Connecticut”
  • Vlax Romani: “Connecticut”
  • Volapük: “Connecticut”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Connecticut”
  • Welsh: “Connecticut”
  • Western Frisian: “Konettikut”
  • Western Frisian: “Konnetikut”
  • Western Mari: “Коннектикут”
  • Western Panjabi: “کنکٹیکٹ”
  • Wu Chinese: “康涅狄格”
  • Wu Chinese: “康涅狄格州”
  • Xhosa: “IKhonethikhati”
  • Yakut: “Коннектикут”
  • Yiddish: “קאנעטיקעט”
  • Yoruba: “Connecticut”
  • Yue Chinese: “康湼狄格州”
  • Zeeuws: “Connecticut”
  • Zhuang: “Connecticut”
  • Zulu: “Connecticut”
  • “Connecticut”
  • “Konektėkots”
  • “ma Kanesika”
  • “कनेक्टिकट”

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