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Coordinates: 44°28′33″N 73°12′43″W / 44.47583°N 73.21194°W[3] | |
Country | United States |
U.S. state | Vermont |
County | Chittenden |
Region | New England |
Settled | 1783 |
Organized (town) | 1785 |
Incorporated (city) | 1865 |
Government | |
• Mayor | Emma Mulvaney-Stanak (P) |
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Area | |
• City | 15.47 sq mi (40.13 km2) |
• Land | 10.31 sq mi (26.69 km2) |
• Water | 5.16 sq mi (13.44 km2) |
Elevation | 200 ft (61 m) |
Population | |
• City | 44,743 |
• Rank | Vermont: 1st |
• Density | 4,339.3/sq mi (1,675.4/km2) |
• Urban | 118,032 (U.S.: 289th) |
• Urban density | 1,903.3/sq mi (734.9/km2) |
• Metro | 225,562 (U.S.: 208th) |
Time zone | UTC−5 (EST) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC−4 (EDT) |
ZIP Codes | 05401–05402, 05405–05406, 05408 |
Area code | 802 |
FIPS code | 50-10675 |
GNIS feature ID | 1456663[3][10] |
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Website | www |
Burlington is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Vermont and the seat of Chittenden County. It is located 45 miles (72 km) south of the Canada–United States border and 95 miles (153 km) south of Montreal. As of the 2020 U.S. census, the population was 44,743. It is the least populous city in the 50 U.S. states to be the most populous city in its state.
A regional college town, Burlington is home to the University of Vermont (UVM) and Champlain College. Vermont's largest hospital, the UVM Medical Center, is within the city limits. The City of Burlington owns Vermont's largest airport, the Patrick Leahy Burlington International Airport, located in neighboring South Burlington. In 2015, Burlington became the first city in the U.S. to run entirely on renewable energy.[11]
Burlington was known as the 'Queen City' of Vermont at least as far back as 1848, when the telegraph first arrived in Burlington and the people of Troy, New York, addressed their congratulations to 'people of the Queen City.' The title really took hold, though, in June 1865, when the City of Burlington's first mayor, Albert L. Catlin...stated in one of his early speeches, 'We represent a young city, which may in time be known and distinguished as the Queen City of New England.'
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