New Hampshire
New Hampshire is a US state in the Northeast, admitted to the Union in 1788. Its capital is Concord, and it goes by the nickname "the Granite State". The USPS abbreviation is NH.
Its geographic centre sits at 43.68° N, 71.58° W, the reference point GEOPUNK measures your guesses against in the US state games.
- »New Hampshire has the shortest ocean coastline of any coastal state, about 29 km.
- »Its state house is the oldest in which a legislature still meets in its original chambers.
- »The Old Man of the Mountain, its rock-profile emblem, collapsed in 2003.
New Hampshire touches three neighbours. Taking each direction from one centre to the other and measuring the boundary they share: Vermont northwest, 313 km, Maine northeast, 263 km and Massachusetts south, 149 km. The longest of those runs is with Vermont.
Concord holds the first-in-the-nation primary machinery, and the state has legislated to protect that position against other states moving earlier.
23,994 km² (9,264 sq mi), 44th largest of 50 states by land area, almost exactly the size of Vermont.
Set against the country archive, that puts it closest in size to Belize.
The state seal on blue, showing the frigate Raleigh under construction at Portsmouth in 1776, one of the first warships built for the Continental Navy.
Easily confused with Nebraska, Michigan, New York, Idaho, Vermont and Kansas.
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