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Largest city: Boston
U.S. States: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont
Area: 181,440 kmР’Р†
Population: 13,922,517 (2006)

New England is a region of the United States located in the northeastern corner of the country. It includes the states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.

The region's most populous city, as well as its business and cultural center, is Boston.
New England is the oldest clearly-defined region of the United States, unique among U.S. geographic regions in that it is also a former political entity. While the region was originally inhabited by indigenous peoples, English Pilgrims, fleeing religious persecution in Europe, arrived nearly four hundred years ago at the beginning of the 17th century. It was one of the first regions of the original North American British colonies to demonstrate ambitions of independence from the British Crown in the 18th century, although it would later collectively oppose the War of 1812. In the 19th century, it played a prominent role in the movement to abolish slavery in the United States, became a source of some of the first examples of American literature and philosophy, and showed the first signs of the effects of the Industrial Revolution in North America.
A person from New England is referred to as a New Englander or a Yankee.
Together, the Mid-Atlantic and New England regions are generally referred to as the Northeastern region of the United States. New England is also a part of the greater U.S.-Canada Atlantic Northeast region.