Vermont

Vermont, is a state located in the New England region. It borders New Hampshire to its east and New York to its west. To the north, it borders Canada’s province of Quebec. Vermont is the only state in New England that does not border the Atlantic Ocean. Vermont is the second-least-populated U.S. state after Wyoming and the sixth-smallest by area of the 50 U.S. states with a recorded population of 643,503 according to the 2020 U.S. census. The state capital is Montpelier, the least-populous state capital in the United States. Burlington is the most populous city and the most-populous in a state.

For some 12,000 years, indigenous peoples have inhabited this area. The historically competitive tribes of the Algonquian-speaking Abenaki and Iroquoian-speaking Mohawk were active in the area at the time of European encounter. The territory was claimed by French colonists in the 17th century as part of the colony of New France, the Kingdom of 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. France lost the Seven Years’ war in 1763 and ceded its territory east to Great Britain.