<Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Released in 1999 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Lists of United States state symbols </Td> </Tr> <P> Connecticut (/ kəˈnɛtɪkət / (listen)) is the southernmost state in the New England region of the northeastern United States . As of the 2010 Census, it has the highest per - capita income, Human Development Index (0.962), and median household income in the United States . It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, New York to the west, and Long Island Sound to the south . Its capital is Hartford and its most populous city is Bridgeport . It is part of New England, although portions of it are often grouped with New York and New Jersey as the Tri-state area . The state is named for the Connecticut River, a major US river that approximately bisects the state . The word "Connecticut" is derived from various anglicized spellings of an Algonquian word for "long tidal river". </P> <P> Connecticut's first settlers were Dutchmen who established a small, short - lived settlement called Fort Hoop in Hartford at the confluence of the Park and Connecticut Rivers . Half of Connecticut was initially part of the Dutch colony New Netherland, which included much of the land between the Connecticut and Delaware Rivers . The first major settlements were established in the 1630s by the English . Thomas Hooker led a band of followers overland from the Massachusetts Bay Colony and founded the Connecticut Colony; other settlers from Massachusetts founded the Saybrook Colony and the New Haven Colony . The Connecticut and New Haven colonies established documents of Fundamental Orders, considered the first constitutions in North America . In 1662, the three colonies were merged under a royal charter, making Connecticut a crown colony . This was one of the Thirteen Colonies that rejected British rule in the American Revolution . </P>

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