Connecticut

Connecticut, the third smallest state in the USA, is located in the northeast of the USA on the Atlantic Ocean. The state stretches 177 km between 40°58′N and 42°3′N and 113 km between 71°47′W and 73°44′W. Connecticut is bordered by Massachusetts to the north, Rhode Island to the east, Long Island Sound to the south, and New York to the west. The state is flowed through by the largest river in New England: the Connecticut River. Water covers 1,809 square miles (12.6 percent) of the state's land area, and 56 to 63 percent of the land area is forested; otherwise, hills, lakes, and plains (including the 10-mile-wide coastal plain) characterize the state. Part of the Appalachian Mountains form the highest elevations (Mount Frissell 725 m) of the state.

Connecticut is divided into eight counties: Fairfield, Hartford, Litchfield, Middlesex, New Haven, New London, Tolland, and Windham. These have only significance as police and judicial districts, the county administrations were abolished in 1960 and all powers transferred to the next lower level, the towns.