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Vermont (/vərˈmɒnt/ ^ⓘ vər-MONT) is a landlocked state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders Massachusetts to the south, New Hampshire to the east, New York to the west, and the Canadian province of Quebec to the north. As of the 2020 U.S. census, the state had a population of 643,503, ranking it the second least populated U.S. state ahead of Wyoming. It is the nation's sixth smallest state in area. The state's capital of Montpelier is the least populous U.S. state capital. No other U.S. state has a most populous city with fewer residents than Burlington. Vermont is also well known for being the largest producer of true maple syrup in the United States for over 200 years.

Native Americans have inhabited the area for about 12,000 years. The competitive tribes of the Algonquian-speaking Abenaki and Iroquoian-speaking Mohawk were active in the area at the time of European encounter. During the 17th century, French colonists claimed the territory as part of the Kingdom of France's colony of New France. After the Kingdom of Great Britain began to settle colonies to the south along the Atlantic coast, the two nations competed in North America in addition to Europe. After being defeated in 1763 in the Seven Years' War, France ceded its territory east of the Mississippi River to Great Britain.

Thereafter, the nearby British Thirteen Colonies, especially the provinces of New Hampshire and New York, disputed the extent of the area called the New Hampshire Grants to the west of the Connecticut River, encompassing present-day Vermont. The provincial government of New York sold land grants to settlers in the region, which conflicted with earlier grants from the government of New Hampshire. The Green Mountain Boys militia protected the interests of the established New Hampshire land grant settlers against the newly arrived settlers with land titles granted by New York. Ultimately, a group of settlers with New Hampshire land grant titles established the Vermont Republic in 1777 as an independent state during the American Revolutionary War. The Vermont Republic abolished slavery before any other U.S. state. It was admitted to the Union in 1791 as the 14th state. (Full article...)

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The Vermont Sesquicentennial half dollar, sometimes called the Bennington–Vermont half dollar or the Battle of Bennington Sesquicentennial half dollar, is a commemorative fifty-cent piece struck by the United States Bureau of the Mint in 1927. The coin was designed by Charles Keck, and on its obverse depicts early Vermont leader Ira Allen, brother of Ethan Allen.

On January 9, 1925, Vermont Senator Frank Greene introduced legislation for commemorative coins to mark the 150th anniversary of Vermont declaring itself fully independent in 1777 and of the American victory at the Battle of Bennington the same year. His bill passed the Senate without difficulty, but in the House of Representatives faced an array of problems. Treasury Secretary Andrew W. Mellon sent a letter opposing the bill and dispatched three Treasury officials to testify against it, arguing that the public was being confused as special coin issues entered circulation. The committee's resolve to have no more commemorative coins—after this one—did not impress the full House, which added two more half dollars to the legislation to mark other anniversaries. The Senate agreed to the changes, and President Calvin Coolidge signed the authorizing act on February 24, 1925. (Full article...)

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Burlington is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Vermont and the seat of Chittenden County. It is located 45 miles (72 km) south of the Canada–United States border and 95 miles (153 km) south of Montreal. As of the 2020 U.S. census, the population was 44,743. It is the least populous city in the 50 U.S. states to be the most populous city in its state.

A regional college town, Burlington is home to the University of Vermont (UVM) and Champlain College. Vermont's largest hospital, the UVM Medical Center, is within the city limits. The City of Burlington owns Vermont's largest airport, the Patrick Leahy Burlington International Airport, located in neighboring South Burlington. In 2015, Burlington became the first city in the U.S. to run entirely on renewable energy. (Full article...)

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Image 1Mount Mansfield, at 4,393 feet (1,339 m), is the highest-elevation point in Vermont. Other high points are Killington Peak, Mount Ellen, Mount Abraham, and Camel's Hump. The lowest point in the state is Lake Champlain at 95 feet (29 m). The state's average elevation is 1,000 feet (300 m). (from History of Vermont)
Image 2The former Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant, in Vernon (from Vermont)
Image 3Vermont towns hold a March town meeting for voters to approve the town's budget and decide other matters. Marlboro voters meet in this building. (from Vermont)
Image 4Mount Mansfield (from Vermont)
Image 5Vellum manuscript of the Constitution of Vermont, 1777. This constitution was amended in 1786, and again in 1793, two years after Vermont's admission to the federal union in 1791. See Constitution of Vermont (1777) and Constitution of Vermont. (from History of Vermont)
Image 6Fall foliage seen from Hogback Mountain, Wilmington (from Vermont)
Image 7A c.1775 flag used by the Green Mountain Boys (from Vermont)
Image 8Vermont Route 17 in Addison with Snake Mountain at right (from Vermont)
Image 9The West Dummerston Bridge, the longest covered bridge in Vermont (from Vermont)
Image 10The Vermont Supreme Court's building in Montpelier (from Vermont)
Image 11Senators Bernie Sanders and Patrick Leahy and Representative Peter Welch greet supporters in 2017.
Image 121791 Act of Congress admitting Vermont into the Union (from Vermont)
Image 13Senators Bernie Sanders and Patrick Leahy and Representative Peter Welch greet supporters in 2017.
Image 14Map of Vermont showing cities, roads, and rivers (from Vermont)
Image 15Silurian and Devonian stratigraphy of Vermont (from Vermont)
Image 16Vermont towns hold a March town meeting for voters to approve the town's budget and decide other matters. Marlboro voters meet in this building. (from Vermont)
Image 17Vermontasaurus sculpture in Post Mills, in 2010 (from Vermont)
Image 18Western face of Camel's Hump Mountain (elevation 4,079 feet (1,243 m)) (from Vermont)
Image 19Mount Mansfield (from Vermont)
Image 20The hermit thrush, the state bird of Vermont (from Vermont)
Image 21The hermit thrush, the state bird of Vermont (from Vermont)
Image 22The Old Constitution House at Windsor, where the Constitution of Vermont was adopted on July 8, 1777 (from Vermont)
Image 23The Ethan Allen Express alongside the Island Line Trail in Burlington (from Vermont)
Image 24Lake Champlain (from Vermont)
Image 25Stowe Resort Village (from Vermont)
Image 26The University of Vermont's Old Mill, the oldest campus building (from Vermont)
Image 27The West Dummerston Bridge, the longest covered bridge in Vermont (from Vermont)
Image 28The University of Vermont's Old Mill, the oldest campus building (from Vermont)
Image 29Stowe Resort Village (from Vermont)
Image 30Autumn in Vermont (from Vermont)
Image 31Vermontasaurus sculpture in Post Mills, in 2010 (from Vermont)
Image 32Western face of Camel's Hump Mountain (elevation 4,079 feet (1,243 m)) (from Vermont)
Image 33The flag of the Green Mountain Boys (from History of Vermont)
Image 34Map of Vermont showing cities, roads, and rivers (from Vermont)
Image 35Vermont in 1827. The county boundaries have since changed. (from Vermont)
Image 36Watercolor of Abenaki couple, 1700s (from Vermont)
Image 37A c.1775 flag used by the Green Mountain Boys (from Vermont)
Image 38Köppen climate types of Vermont, using 1991–2020 climate normals (from Vermont)
Image 39Autumn in Vermont (from Vermont)
Image 40Edward F. Knapp State Airport in Berlin (from Vermont)
Image 41The gold leaf dome of the neoclassical Vermont State House (Capitol) in Montpelier (from Vermont)
Image 42Edward F. Knapp State Airport in Berlin (from Vermont)
Image 43The Cumberland ice-breaking ferry headed toward Grand Isle in winter (from Vermont)
Image 44Population density of Vermont (from Vermont)
Image 45Vermont Route 17 in Addison with Snake Mountain at right (from Vermont)
Image 46The Vermont Supreme Court's building in Montpelier (from Vermont)
Image 47The former Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant, in Vernon (from Vermont)
Image 48The Ethan Allen Express alongside the Island Line Trail in Burlington (from Vermont)
Image 49Lake Champlain (from Vermont)
Image 50The Old Constitution House at Windsor, where the Constitution of Vermont was adopted on July 8, 1777 (from Vermont)
Image 51Lyndon Institute, a non-profit high school in Lyndon, Vermont with both day and boarding students. (from Vermont)
Image 52The gold leaf dome of the neoclassical Vermont State House (Capitol) in Montpelier (from Vermont)
Image 53Silurian and Devonian stratigraphy of Vermont (from Vermont)
Image 54Lyndon Institute, a non-profit high school in Lyndon, Vermont with both day and boarding students. (from Vermont)
Image 55Vermont in 1827. The county boundaries have since changed. (from Vermont)
Image 56Population density of Vermont (from Vermont)
Image 57Watercolor of Abenaki couple, 1700s (from Vermont)
Image 58Fall foliage at Lake Willoughby (from Vermont)
Image 591791 Act of Congress admitting Vermont into the Union (from Vermont)
Image 60Fall foliage seen from Hogback Mountain, Wilmington (from Vermont)
Image 61MVRTD's "The Bus" in Rutland (from Vermont)
Image 62MVRTD's "The Bus" in Rutland (from Vermont)
Image 63The Cumberland ice-breaking ferry headed toward Grand Isle in winter (from Vermont)
Image 64The gold leaf dome of the Vermont State House in Montpelier is visible for many miles around the city. This is the third State House on the site, and like the second, was built in the Greek Revival architectural style. It was completed in 1857. Montpelier became the state capital in 1805. (from History of Vermont)
Image 65Fall foliage at Lake Willoughby (from Vermont)
Image 66Köppen climate types of Vermont, using 1991–2020 climate normals (from Vermont)

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... that in 1979, Vermont ETV received more donations from viewers in Quebec than it did from Vermonters?
... that Amtrak called the Vermont Rail System the worst host railroad in the country in 2010 due to delays on the Ethan Allen Express?
... that Alison H. Clarkson, the majority leader of the Vermont Senate, worked as a theatrical producer and on New York Theatre Workshop's board?
... that New York City's Mansfield Hotel was developed by two neighbors from Vermont, one of whom later served as Vermont's governor?
... that Vermont folk musician Pete Sutherland hosted concerts at his house for $10—or $9 if you brought your own chair?
... that an apparently jobless man wearing a cardboard box who taped himself to a lamppost was actually a new DJ for a Vermont radio station?

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Cities

Vermont has nine incorporated cities.

City populations (2010 Census)
City	Population
Burlington	42,417
South Burlington	17,904
Rutland	16,495
Barre	9,052
Montpelier	7,855
Winooski	7,267
St. Albans	6,918
Newport	5,005
Vergennes	2,741

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