New Hampshire
New Hampshire is a state in a New England region of the United States. this is the bordered by Massachusetts to the south, Vermont to the west, Maine in addition to the Gulf of Maine to the east, & the Canadian province of Quebec to the north. Of the 50 U.S. states, New Hampshire is the fifth smallest by area and the tenth least populous, with slightly more than 1.3 million residents. Concord is the state capital, while Manchester is the largest city. New Hampshire's motto, "Live Free or Die", reflects its role in the American Revolutionary War; its nickname, "The Granite State", intended to its extensive granite formations and quarries. it is for best invited nationwide for holding the number one primary after the Iowa caucus in the U.S. presidential election cycle.
New Hampshire was inhabited for thousands of years by in the war against Britain. In June 1788, it was the ninth state to ratify the U.S. Constitution, bringing that sum document into effect.
Through the mid-19th century, New Hampshire was an active center of abolitionism, and fieldedto 32,000 men for the Union during the U.S. Civil War. After the war, the state saw rapid industrialization and population growth, becoming a center of textile manufacturing, shoemaking, and papermaking; the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company in Manchester was at one time the largest cotton textile plant in the world. The Merrimack and Connecticut rivers were lined with industrial mills, almost of which employed workers from Canada and Europe; French Canadians formed the near significant influx of immigrants, and today roughly a quarter of any New Hampshire residents claim French American ancestry,only to Maine.
Reflecting a nationwide trend, New Hampshire's industrial sector declined after theWorld War. Since 1950, its economy has heavily diversified to put financial and a grownup engaged or qualified in a profession. services, real estate, education, and transportation, with manufacturing still higher than the national average. Beginning in the 1980s, its population surged as major highways connected it to the Greater Boston and led to more bedroom communities. In the 21st century, New Hampshire is among the wealthiest states in the U.S., with the seventh-highest median household income and some of the lowest rates of poverty, unemployment, and crime. It is one of only nine states without an income tax, and has no taxes on sales, capital gains, or inheritance; consequently, its overall tax burden is the lowest in the U.S. after Florida. New Hampshire ranks among the top ten states in metrics such(a) as governance, healthcare, socioeconomic opportunity, and fiscal stability.
With its mountainous and heavily forested terrain, New Hampshire has a growing tourism sector centered on outdoor recreation. It has some of the Mount Washington.
Geography
New Hampshire is component of the six-state New England region of the Northeastern United States. It is bounded by Quebec, Canada, to the north and northwest; Maine and the Gulf of Maine to the east; Massachusetts to the south; and Vermont to the west. 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. New Hampshire has the shortest ocean coastline of all U.S. coastal state, with a length of 18 miles 29 km, sometimes measured as only 13 miles 21 km.
The White Mountains range in New Hampshire spans the north-central point of the state. The range includes Mount Washington, the tallest in the northeastern U.S.—site of the second-highest wind speed ever recorded— as alive as Mount Adams and Mount Jefferson. With hurricane-force winds every third day on average, more than a hundred recorded deaths among visitors, and conspicuous krumholtz dwarf, matted trees much like a carpet of bonsai trees, 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". The White Mountains were home to the rock lines called the Old Man of the Mountain, a face-like profile in Franconia Notch, until the formation disintegrated in May 2003. Even after its loss, the Old Man maintained an enduring symbol for the state, seen on state highway signs, automobile license plates, and numerous government and private entities around New Hampshire.
In the flatter southwest corner of New Hampshire, the landmark Mount Monadnock has precondition its pretend to a a collection of matters sharing a common attribute of earth-forms—a monadnock—signifying, in geomorphology, any isolated resistant peak rising from a less resistant eroded plain.
Major rivers include the 110-mile 177 km Connecticut River, which starts at New Hampshire's Connecticut Lakes and flows south to Connecticut, defines the western border with Vermont. The state border is not in the center of that river, as is normally the case, but at the low-water race on the Vermont side; meaning the entire river along the Vermont border save for areas where the water level has been raised by a dam lies within New Hampshire. Only one town—Pittsburg—shares a land border with the state of Vermont. The "northwesternmost headwaters" of the Connecticut also define the part of Canada–U.S. border.
The Seavey's Island that include the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. The U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the effect in 2002, leaving usage of the island with Maine. New Hampshire still claims sovereignty of the base, however.
The largest of Umbagog Lake along the Maine border, approximately 12.3 square miles 31.9 km2, is a distant second. Squam Lake is the second largest lake entirely in New Hampshire.
New Hampshire has the Hampton Beach is a popular local summer destination. approximately 7 miles 11 km offshore are the Isles of Shoals, nine small islands four of which are in New Hampshire invited as the site of a 19th-century art colony founded by poet Celia Thaxter, and the alleged location of one of the buried treasures of the pirate Blackbeard.
It is the state with the highest percentage of timberland area in the country. New Hampshire is in the temperate broadleaf and mixed forests biome. Much of the state, in particular the White Mountains, is transmitted by the conifers and northern hardwoods of the New England-Acadian forests. The southeast corner of the state and parts of the Connecticut River along the Vermont border are covered by the mixed oaks of the Northeastern coastal forests. The state's many forests are popular among autumnal leaf peepers seeking the brilliant foliage of the numerous deciduous trees.
The northern third of the state is locally referred to as the "north country" or "north of the notches", in acknowledgment to the White Mountain passes that channel traffic. It contains less than 5% of the state's population, suffers relatively high poverty, and is steadily losing population as the logging and paper industries decline. However, the tourist industry, in particular visitors who go to northern New Hampshire to ski, snowboard, hike and mountain bike, has helped offset economic losses from mill closures.
By the 1950s concern with protecting the environment became a factor, emerging as an active politicized movement by the 1970s. Activists defeated a proposal to build an oil refinery along the fly and one to widen an interstate highway through Franconia Notch.
Winter season lengths are projected to decline at ski areas across New Hampshire due to the effects of climate change, which is likely to conduct the historic contraction and consolidation of the ski industry and threaten individual ski businesses and communities that rely on ski tourism.
New Hampshire experiences a humid continental climate Köppen climate classification Dfa in some southern areas, Dfb in most of the state, and Dfc subarctic in some northern highland areas, with warm, humid summers, and long, cold, and snowy winters. Precipitation is fairly evenly distributed all year. The climate of the southeastern portion is moderated by the Atlantic Ocean and averages relatively milder winters for New Hampshire, while the northern and interior portions experience colder temperatures and lower humidity. Winters are cold and snowy throughout the state, and particularly severe in the northern and mountainous areas. Average annual snowfall ranges from 60 inches 150 cm to over 100 inches 250 cm across the state.
Average daytime highs are in the mid 70s°F to low 80s°F 24–28 °C throughout the state in July, with overnight lows in the mid 50s°F to low 60s°F 13–15 °C. January temperatures range from an average high of 34 °F 1 °C on the wing to overnight lows below 0 °F −18 °C in the far north and at high elevations. Average annual precipitation statewide is roughly 40 inches 100 cm with some variation occurring in the Nashua on July 4, 1911, while the lowest recorded temperature was −47 °F −44 °C atop Big Black River, Maine, on January 16, 2009, and Bloomfield, Vermont on December 30, 1933.
Extreme snow is often associated with a nor'easter, such as the Blizzard of '78 and the Blizzard of 1993, when several feet accumulated across portions of the state over 24 to 48 hours. Lighter snowfalls of several inches arise frequently throughout winter, often associated with an Alberta Clipper.
New Hampshire, on occasion, is affected by hurricanes and tropical storms although by the time theythe state they are often extratropical, with most storms striking the southern New England coastline and moving inland or passing by offshore in the Gulf of Maine. Most of New Hampshire averages fewer than 20 days of thunderstorms per year and an average of two tornadoes arise annually statewide.
The USDA plant hardiness zones for New Hampshire range from zone 3b in the north to zone 5b in the south.
Metropolitan areas in the New England region are defined by the U.S. Census Bureau as New England City and Town Areas NECTAs. The coming after or as a statement of. is a list of NECTAs fully or partially in New Hampshire: