Hamden
Hamden is a suburb of the city of New Haven, Connecticut. Quinnipiac University has a significant impact on the town. The town's nickname is "The Land of the Sleeping Giant". It had about 59,500 in 2025.
Photo: Streetsim, Public domain.- Type: Town with 57,800 residents
- Description: town in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States
- Also known as: “Hamden (Connecticut)”, “Hamden, Connecticut”, “Hamden, CT”, “Land of the Sleeping Giant”, “Ҳамден”, “ランド・オヴ・ザ・スリーピング・ジャイアント”, “哈姆登 (康涅狄格州)”, and “眠れる巨人の土地”
- Postal codes: 06514, 06517, and 06518
- Neighbors: New Haven
Places of Interest
Highlights: Hamden Middle School and Hamden High School.
Hamden High School
School
Photo: Streetsim, Public domain.Places in the Area
Nearby places include North Haven and Pines Bridge Historic District.
North Haven
North Haven is a town in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States on the outskirts of New Haven.
Hamden
Latitude
41.3836° or 41° 23′ 1″ north
Longitude
-72.902° or 72° 54′ 7″ west
Population
57,800
Elevation
102 feet (31 metres)
UN/LOCODE
US AEU
Open location code
87H993MX+C5
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Hamden” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “هامدن”
- Armenian: “Համդեն”
- Basque: “Hamden”
- Catalan: “Hamden”
- Cebuano: “Hamden”
- Chechen: “Гамден”
- Chinese: “哈姆登”
- Czech: “Hamden”
- Danish: “Hamden”
- Dutch: “Hamden”
- Egyptian Arabic: “هامدن”
- French: “Hamden”
- Galician: “Hamden”
- German: “Hamden”
- Greek: “Χάμντεν”
- Haitian: “Hamden, Connecticut”
- Haitian: “Hamden”
- Hebrew: “האמדן”
- Hungarian: “Hamden”
- Irish: “Hamden”
- Italian: “Hamden”
- Japanese: “ハムデン”
- Kazakh: “Xamdén”
- Kazakh: “Хамдэн”
- Kazakh: “حامدەن”
- Kirghiz: “Хамдэн”
- Korean: “햄든”
- Mazanderani: “هامدن”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Hamden”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hamden”
- Norwegian: “Hamden”
- Polish: “Hamden”
- Portuguese: “Hamden”
- Russian: “Хамден”
- Russian: “Хамдэн”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Hamden”
- Silesian: “Hamden”
- Slovak: “Hamden”
- Slovenian: “Hamden”
- Spanish: “Hamden”
- Swedish: “Hamden, Connecticut”
- Swedish: “Hamden”
- Tatar: “Гамден”
- Turkish: “Hamden, Connecticut”
- Turkish: “Hamden”
- Ukrainian: “Гамден”
- Urdu: “ہیمڈن، کنیکٹیکٹ”
- Urdu: “ہیمڈن”
- Uzbek: “Hamden”
- Volapük: “Hamden”
- Welsh: “Hamden, Connecticut”
- Welsh: “Hamden”
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