New Hampshire

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. New Hampshire is the 5th smallest by area and the 10th least populous of the 50 states. Concord is the state capital, while Manchester is the largest city in the state. It has no general sales tax, nor is personal income (other than interest and dividends) taxed at either the state or local level. 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. Historically, New Hampshire was a major center for textile manufacturing, shoemaking, and papermaking, with Amoskeag Manufacturing Company in Manchester at one time being the largest cotton textile plant in the world. Numerous mills were located along various rivers in the state, especially the Merrimack and Connecticut rivers. Many French Canadians migrated to New Hampshire to work the mills in the late 19th and early 20th century; New Hampshire still ranks second among states by percentage of people claiming French American ancestry, with 24.5% of the state. With some of the largest ski mountains on the East Coast, New Hampshire's major recreational attractions include skiing, snowmobiling, and other winter sports, hiking and mountaineering (Mount Monadnock in the state's southwestern corner is among the most climbed mountains in the U.S.), observing the fall foliage, summer cottages along many lakes and the seacoast, motor sports at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway, and Motorcycle Week, a popular motorcycle rally held in Weirs Beach in Laconia in June.

New Hampshire is known under different nicknames; aka Granite State, or The Live Free or Die State (official motto; "Live Free or Die" used on license plates), or Mother of Rivers, or White Mountain State, or Switzerland of America and detailed official information about New Hampshire can be found on the homepage at www. nh.gov.

The given New Hampshire location map shows that New Hampshire is located in the north-eastern part of the United States. Map of New Hampshire also illustrates that New Hampshire is the part of New England region and shares its state borders with Maine in the east, Massachusetts in the south, and Vermont in the west. Besides, it also shares international border with Canada in the north and has coastline in the south-east along the Atlantic Ocean.

It is one of the oldest regions that adopted as state. It has been incorporated as state in the year 1788; likewise, it became the ninth state to ratify the United States Constitution. Furthermore, New Hampshire was the first U.S. state who owned its own state constitution. The nickname of New Hampshire is The Granite State, because of its geology and its tradition of self-sufficiency.

The capital city of New Hampshire is Concord, whereas the largest city is Manchester. Interestingly, it has neither general sales tax, nor personal income (other than interest and dividends); however, taxed at either the state or local level. Above all, its license plates carry the state motto: Live Free or Die.

Pack the kids and the car and make your way up the Mount Washington Auto Road. The best time to go? The fall, hands down. Moreover, in the humid continental climate, New Hampshire offers various recreational activities include snowmobiling, skiing, and other winter sports, mountaineering and hiking, observing the fall foliage, summer cottages along many lakes and the seacoast, motor sports at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway, and Motorcycle Week, a popular motorcycle rally that use to taken place in Weirs Beach nearby Laconia in June.

The US State New Hampshire occupies 23,188 m², about 0,25 % of the total territory of the USA of 9,148,020 m². The total population of the US State New Hampshire with 1,342,795 inhabitants (in 2017) has already increased by 8,66 % in this millennium. Almost 40 years ago there were 1,250,734 fewer people. The capital Concord alone has 43,019 inhabitants.

Concord has been the capital city of New Hampshire since 1808. Levi Hutchins of Concord invented the first alarm clock in 1787. Manchester has approximately 110,506 residents.

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 (1,917 m) Mount Washington. The largest of New Hampshire's lakes is Lake Winnipesaukee, which covers 71 square miles (184 km²) in the east-central part of New Hampshire. 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 shortest ocean coastline of any state in the United States, approximately 18 miles (29 km) long. Hampton Beach is a popular local summer destination. The northern third of the state is locally referred to as the "north country" or "north of the notches," in reference to 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. New Hampshire, on occasion, is affected by hurricanes and tropical storms although by the time they reach the 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 occur annually statewide.