Cities

Hartford

Citation Formats

General Reference

Geography Atlas. "Hartford." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://geography.interactiveatlas.org/cities/hartford.

APA Style

Geography Atlas. (n.d.). Hartford. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://geography.interactiveatlas.org/cities/hartford

BibTeX

@misc{geographyatlas-hartford,
  author = {Geography Atlas},
  title = {Hartford},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://geography.interactiveatlas.org/cities/hartford},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

Hartford is the capital of Connecticut, in Hartford County, and the most populous city in the Capitol Planning Region, the central city of the Greater Hartford metropolitan area of about 1.17 million people. Established in 1635, it is among the oldest cities in the United States and is home to the nation's oldest continuously operating public art museum and the oldest continuously published newspaper.

Facts

Population

121,054 1

2020 census figure, from Hartford's own Wikipedia infobox.

Area (sq km)

45.01 1

Founding Year

1784 1

May 29, 1784 is the incorporation-as-city date the infobox itself gives (Hartford was founded October 15, 1635).

Population Estimate Year

2020 1

Latitude