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Danbury

Also known as Danbury, Connecticut, Danbury, CT

city in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States

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Danbury is a city located in Fairfield County in Connecticut, in the northeastern United States. It is one of the municipalities in the region and serves as a local population and economic center for the area.

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Instance of: city in the United States
Official name: Danbury
Country: United States
Population: 86518
Area: 114.328755
Elevation: 121
Time zone: UTC−04:00
Shares border with: New Fairfield
Official website: www.danbury-ct.gov
Image: Danbury Hospital (53563760592).jpg
Households: 31074
Dialing code: 475

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category for people who died here: Category:Deaths in Danbury, Connecticut
category for people born here: Category:Births in Danbury, Connecticut
twinned administrative body: Gouveia
Commons category: Danbury, Connecticut
topic's main category: Category:Danbury, Connecticut
category of associated people: Category:People from Danbury, Connecticut
inception: 1702-00-00
water as percent of area: 5.0988
P8168: Ecaterina Szabo
native label: Danbury
postal code: 06813
water area: 5.829369
per capita income: 36512
median income: 74600
described by source: Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
located in the statistical territorial entity: New York metropolitan area
P12749: Nepenthes aristolochioides

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Encyclopedic overview

Danbury (/ˈdænbɛri/ DAN-berr-ee) is a city in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States, located approximately 50 miles (80 km) northeast of New York City. Danbury's population as of 2020 was 86,518. It is the third-largest city in Western Connecticut, and the seventh-largest city in Connecticut. Located within the heart of the Housatonic Valley region, the city is a historic commercial hub of western Connecticut, home to many commuters and summer residents from the New York metropolitan area and New England.

Danbury is nicknamed the "Hat City", because it was once the center of the American hat industry, during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The mineral danburite is named after Danbury, while the city itself is named for Danbury in Essex, England.

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