New Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is bordered by Massachusetts to the south, Vermont to the west, Maine and the Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Canadian province of Quebec to the north. Concord is the state capital, while Manchester is the largest city. The New Hampshire primary is the first primary in the U.S. presidential election cycle.
About New Hampshire in brief
New Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is bordered by Massachusetts to the south, Vermont to the west, Maine and the Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Canadian province of Quebec to the north. Concord is the state capital, while Manchester is the largest city. New Hampshire has no general sales tax, nor income tax other than on interest and dividends. The New Hampshire primary is the first primary in the U.S. presidential election cycle. Its license plates carry the state motto, \”Live Free or Die\”. The state’s nickname, \”The Granite State\”, refers to its extensive granite formations and quarries. The White Mountain National Forest links the Vermont and Maine portions of the Appalachian Trail, and has the Mount Washington Auto Road, where visitors may drive to the top of 6,288-foot Mount Washington. With hurricane-force winds every third day on average, more than a hundred recorded deaths among visitors, and conspicuous krumholtz, the climate on the upper reaches of Mount Washington has inspired the weather observatory on the peak to claim that the area has the “World’s Worst Weather” New Hampshire’s major regions are the Great North Woods, the White Mountains, the Lakes Region, the Seacoast, the Merrimack Valley, the Monadnock Region and the Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee area. The state was named after the southern English county of Hampshire by Captain John Mason. It was the first of the British North American colonies to establish a government independent of the Kingdom of Great Britain’s authority in 1776.
In 1788, it was the ninth state to ratify the United States Constitution, bringing that document into effect. It ranks second among states by percentage of people claiming French American ancestry, with 24. 5% of the state identifying as such. It has the shortest ocean coastline of any U. S. coastal state, with a length of 18 miles, sometimes measured as only 13 miles. The range includes Mount Washington, the tallest in the northeastern U. s. —site of the second-highest wind speed ever recorded—as well as Mount Adams and Mount Jefferson. The Old Man of the Mountain, a face-like formation called the face-conia in Franconia until the formation disintegrated in May 2003, remains an enduring symbol for the state, seen on automobile license plates, state highway signs, and many private entities around New Hampshire. Its flatter southwest corner is the flatter corner of New Hampshire in the southwest corner of Massachusetts. Its lower half bisects the lower half of the Merriack River, which rises from a less eroded plain into the sea before passing into the Newport corner of the lower New Hampshire and reaching the sea in the north–south passing into Massachusetts in Newportbury. Its highest peak is Mount Monnock, which has given its name to a landmark of earth-signifying monadnocks.
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