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The largest of New Hampshire's lakes is Lake Winnipesaukee, which covers 71 square miles (184 km 2) in the east-central part of New Hampshire. Umbagog Lake along the Maine border, approximately 12.3 square miles (31.9 km 2), is a distant second. Squam Lake is the second largest lake entirely in New Hampshire.
New England is a region in the North Eastern United States consisting of the states Rhode Island, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine.Most of New England consists geologically of volcanic island arcs that accreted onto the eastern edge of the Laurentian Craton in prehistoric times.
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 ...
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).
The Atlantic coast at North Hampton, New Hampshire In this 2018 map by the N.H. Department of Transportation, New Hampshire's seacoast region (in lighter blue) lies at the southeastern corner of the state. The Seacoast Region is the southeast area of the U.S. state of New Hampshire that is centered around the city of Portsmouth.
In this 2018 map by the N.H. Department of Transportation, the Great North Woods region is located at the northern tip of New Hampshire, colored blue-green in this map. The Great North Woods Region , also known as the North Country , is located at the northern tip of New Hampshire , United States , north of the White Mountains Region and is ...
Towns in the Merrimack Valley of New Hampshire. In New Hampshire, the Merrimack Valley Region is an area of the south-central part of the state, about 35 miles (56 km) wide, centered on the Merrimack River, and running from Canterbury [3] south to the Massachusetts border. Henniker marks the western extent, and Nottingham the eastern.
Chester is in southeastern New Hampshire, in the western part of Rockingham County.The highest point in town is found on an unnamed hill west of Bell Hill and northwest of Harantis Lake; it has two knobs of almost equal elevation of at least 635 feet (194 m), according to the most recent (2011–2012) USGS 7.5-minute topographical map.