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Place Name
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Fairfield County
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Place Status (Type)
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county
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Capital is
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Bridgeport and Danbury
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Population
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827,645 (1990)
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Location
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Connecticut, United States, North America
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Latitude
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41°13'N
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Longitude
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73°22'W
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Fairfield
, county (
837 sq mi/2,168 sq km; 1990 pop.
827,645), SW Conn., on L.I. Sound and N.Y. state line, bounded E by
Housatonic R.;  Bridgeport and Danbury; 41°13'N 73°22'W.
Many residential communities lie within N.Y. city commuting radius.
Mfg. centers include Bridgeport (state's leading industrial city),
Danbury, Fairfield, Stamford, and Stratford. Mfg. (electrical equip.,
firearms, hats, machinery, metal prods., apparel, textiles, chemicals,
rubber, paper, wood and glass prods.). Home to many major corporate hq.
Agr. (fruit, truck, dairy prods.). Resorts on shore and L. Candlewood.
Drained by Housatonic, Norwalk, Aspetuck, and Poquonock rivers.
Constituted 1666.
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