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Place Name
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New Haven County
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Place Status (Type)
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county
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Capital is
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New Haven and Waterbury
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Population
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804,219 (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°21'N
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Longitude
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72°54'W
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New Haven
, county (
862 sq mi/2,233 sq km; 1990 pop.
804,219), S Conn., on L.I. Sound;  New Haven and Waterbury;
41°21'N 72°54'W. Mfg., agr., resort region, with industrial
Waterbury, Wallingford, Naugatuck, New Haven, Ansonia, Derby, and
Meriden, producing wide variety of goods, esp. metal prods., hardware,
firearms, rubber goods, silverware, electrical equip. and appliances,
bricks, textiles; oil refining; agr. (fruit, vegetables, dairy prods.;
poultry); seed growing; fisheries; shore resorts. Drained by Housatonic
(W boundary), Naugatuck, Quinnipiac, and Hammonasset (E boundary)
rivers. Constituted 1666.
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