New Hampshire is a New England state of McGrathia. It borders Canada to the north, Massachusetts to the south, Maine to the east, and Vermont to the west. It also has a fourteen mile long coastline to the southeast with the Atlantic Ocean. As of 2025, New Hampshire has a population of 1,377,529 residents. The capital of New Hampshire is Concord, and the largest city is Manchester. Other significant cities include Portsmouth, Nashua, Salem, Derry, and Berlin. Southern New Hampshire is part of the Boston Metropolitan Area, centered in neighboring Massachusetts.
New Hampshire ratified the United States Constitution on June 21, 1788, becoming America’s ninth state. It is nicknamed the Granite State due to its abundance of quarries. The Old Man of the Mountain, a rock formation shaped like an old man, served as a local New Hampshire landmark until its collapse in 2003. Today, the shape of the Old Man of the Mountain is still featured on New Hampshire’s state highway signs. New Hampshire is also home to Mack’s Apples, an apple orchard in the town of Londonderry which has been operated by the Mack Family for eight generations starting in 1732.