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The Atlantic coast at North Hampton, New Hampshire In this 2018 map by the N.H. Department of Transportation, New Hampshire's seacoast region (in lighter blue) lies at the southeastern corner of the state. The Seacoast Region is the southeast area of the U.S. state of New Hampshire that is centered around the city of Portsmouth.
New Hampshire's major regions are the Great North Woods, the White Mountains, the Lakes Region, the Seacoast, the Merrimack Valley, the Monadnock Region, and the Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee area. New Hampshire has the shortest ocean coastline of any U.S. coastal state, with a length of 18 miles (29 km), [26] sometimes measured as only 13 miles (21 km).
Two separate measurements are used: method 1 only includes states with ocean coastline and excludes tidal inlets; method 2 includes Great Lake shoreline and the extra length from tidal inlets. For example, method 2 counts the Great Bay as part of New Hampshire's coastline, but method 1 does not. Method 1 does not include the coastlines of the ...
Hampshire has a milder climate than most areas of the British Isles, [78] being in the far south with the climate stabilising effect of the sea, but protected against the more extreme weather of the Atlantic coast. Hampshire has a higher average annual temperature than the UK average at 9.8 to 12 °C (49.6 to 53.6 °F), [79] average rainfall at ...
A number of states and provinces along the North American coast drain into the Gulf of Maine. Much of that region is depicted here. The watershed of the gulf encompasses an area of 69,000 square miles (180,000 km 2 ), including all of Maine, 70% of New Hampshire, 56% of New Brunswick, 41% of Massachusetts, and 36% of Nova Scotia.
The place name East Coast derives from the idea that the contiguous 48 states are defined by two major coastlines, one at the western edge and one on the eastern edge. Other terms for referring to this area include the Eastern Seaboard, which is another term for coastline, [2] Atlantic Coast, and Atlantic Seaboard because the coastline lies along the Atlantic Ocean.
Island County Water body Elevation (feet) Elevation (metres) Badger Island: Carroll: Lake Winnipesaukee: 505 154 Barndoor Island: Belknap: Lake Winnipesaukee
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