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New Hampshire is a state located in the Northeastern United States. It is divided into 234 municipalities, including 221 towns and 13 cities. New Hampshire is organized along the New England town model, where the state is nearly completely incorporated and divided into towns, 13 of which are designated as "cities". For each town/city, the table ...
The last counties created were Belknap County and Carroll County, in 1840. The majority of New Hampshire's counties were named for prominent British or American people or geographic locations and features. Only one county's name originates in a Native American language: Coös County, named for an Algonquian word meaning "small pines".
English: Map of the State of New Hampshire Counties and Towns Based on GIS Information found in the map “New Hampshire Political Boundaries,” available through NH GRANIT, Complex Systems Research Center, University of New Hampshire, created from Digital Line Graphs from US Geological Survey data (April 2009)
Populated places in New Hampshire generally fall into one or more of the following categories (which see): Category:Cities in New Hampshire (13 cities) Category:Towns in New Hampshire (221 towns) Category:Census-designated places in New Hampshire (46 places) Category:Unincorporated communities in New Hampshire (villages, hamlets, settlements, etc.)
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All of New Hampshire's 10 counties shifted to the right in the presidential election between Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump, now the president-elect.. With 99% of ...
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 any U.S. coastal state, with a length of 18 miles (29 km), [26] sometimes measured as only 13 miles (21 km).
New Hampshire contains 234 incorporated towns and cities. Thirteen are cities and 221 are towns. Towns and cities are treated identically under state law. The primary difference is that cities are former towns who dropped the town meeting form of government in favor of a city form through special act of the New Hampshire General Court. Since ...