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Greenwich
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town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States, suburb of NYC
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- U s state
- Connecticut
- County
- Fairfield
- Region
- Western CT
- Named after
- Greenwich , London
- Type
- Representative town meeting
- First selectman
- Fred Camillo ( R )
- Selectwoman
- Lauren Rabin (R), Rachel Khanna (D)
- Town administrator
- Kathleen Clarke Buch
- Town meeting moderator
- Alexis Voulgaris
- Total
- 67.2 sq mi (174.0 km )
- Land
- 47.8 sq mi (123.8 km )
- Water
- 19.4 sq mi (50.3 km ) 28.88%
- Elevation
- 135 ft (41 m)
- Density
- 1,328.8/sq mi (513.1/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( Eastern )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 ( Eastern )
- Zip codes
- 06830, 06831, 06870, 06878
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- New England town
- Named after
- Greenwich
- Official name
- Greenwich
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Fairfield County
- Population
- 61171
- Area
- 174047201
- Elevation
- 28
- Time zone
- Eastern Time Zone
- Body of water
- Long Island Sound
- Shares border with
- Port Chester
- Official website
- www.greenwichct.org
- Image
- Greenwich, Connecticut skyline.jpg
- Households
- 22383
- Dialing code
- 475
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- category for people who died here
- Category:Deaths in Greenwich, Connecticut
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Greenwich, Connecticut
- Commons category
- Greenwich, Connecticut
- topic's main category
- Category:Greenwich, Connecticut
- inception
- 1640-00-00
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Greenwich, Connecticut
- native label
- Greenwich
- postal code
- 06836
- per capita income
- 108412
- located in the statistical territorial entity
- New York metropolitan area
- located in/on physical feature
- Connecticut panhandle
- contains settlement
- Riverside
- P8168
- Klas Östergren
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- P12749
- Skimmia japonica
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Encyclopedic overview
Greenwich (/ˈɡrɛnɪtʃ/ GREN-itch) is a town in southwestern Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 63,518. It is the largest town on Connecticut's affluent Gold Coast. Greenwich is home to many hedge funds and financial services firms due to its residential setting and proximity to Manhattan.
Greenwich is a principal community of the Bridgeport–Stamford–Norwalk–Danbury metropolitan statistical area, which comprises all of Fairfield County, and is part of both the greater New York metropolitan area and the Western Connecticut Planning Region. The town is the southwesternmost municipality in both the State of Connecticut and the six-state region of New England. The town is named after Greenwich, a royal borough of London in the United Kingdom.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Greenwich” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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