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Hartford

Also known as Hartford, Connecticut, Hartford, CT, Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut, Hartford (CT), City of Hartford, Connecticut, Hartford, Conn., Hartford CT, Capital of Connecticut

city in and capital of Connecticut, United States

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Hartford is the capital city of Connecticut, located in the northeastern United States. It serves as the center of state government and is an important urban hub in the region.

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Official name: Hartford
Population: 121054
Area: 46.764321
Elevation: 18
Official website: www.hartford.gov
Image: Hartford, CT skyline (cropped).jpg
Households: 47722
Dialing code: 959

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postal code: 06153
Commons category: Hartford, Connecticut
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Hartford is the capital city of the U.S. state of Connecticut. The city, located in Hartford County, had a population of 121,054 at the 2020 census and was estimated at 124,006 in 2025. Hartford is the most populous city in the Capitol Planning Region and the core city of the Greater Hartford metropolitan area with 1.17 million residents in total.

Founded in 1635, Hartford is among the oldest cities in the United States. It is home to the country's oldest continuously operating public art museum (Wadsworth Atheneum), the second oldest publicly funded park (Bushnell Park), the oldest continuously published newspaper (the Hartford Courant), the second-oldest secondary school (Hartford Public High School), and the oldest school for deaf children (American School for the Deaf), founded by Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet in 1817. It is the location of the Mark Twain House, in which the author Mark Twain wrote his most famous works and raised his family. He wrote in 1868, "Of all the beautiful towns it has been my fortune to see this is the chief."