Connecticut is the southernmost state in the region of the United States known as New England.
This state is the third smallest state by area, the 29th most populous, and the fourth most densely populated of the 50 United States. Connecticut's first European settlers were Dutch. They established a small lived settlement in present day Hartford at the confluence of the Park and Connecticut rivers, called Huys de Goede Hoop.
And significant The Connecticut River have given Connecticut a strong maritime tradition, which continues today.