Concord

Also known as Concord, New Hampshire, Concord N.H., Concord NH, Concord, NH

capital city of state of New Hampshire, United States; county seat of Merrimack County, New Hampshire

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Concord is the capital city of New Hampshire and serves as the county seat for Merrimack County. As the state capital, it is the center of New Hampshire's state government and politics.

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Official name: Concord
Population: 43976
Area: 174.766644
Elevation: 88
Official website: concordnh.gov
Image: Downtown Concord, NH, near the state capitol IMG 2719 (cropped).JPG
Households: 17761
Dialing code: 603

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Commons category: Concord, New Hampshire
Commons gallery: Concord, New Hampshire
native label: Concord
P8168: Lisa Stansfield
inception: 1733-00-00
water as percent of area: 4.7914
postal code: 03302
per capita income: 37223
hashtag: Concord

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Concord (/ˈkɒŋkərd/) is the capital city of the U.S. state of New Hampshire and the seat of Merrimack County. As of the 2020 United States census the population was 43,976, making it the 3rd most populous city in New Hampshire after Manchester and Nashua.

The area was first settled by Europeans in 1659. On January 17, 1725, the Province of Massachusetts Bay granted the Concord area as the Plantation of Penacook, and it was incorporated on February 9, 1734, as the Town of Rumford. Governor Benning Wentworth gave the city its current name in 1765 following a boundary dispute with the neighboring town of Bow; the name was meant to signify the new harmony between the two towns. In 1808, Concord was named the official seat of state government, and the State House was completed in 1819; it remains the oldest U.S. state capitol wherein the legislature meets in its original chambers.