The Connecticut Panhandle is in southwestern Connecticut, where it abuts New York State. It is contained entirely in Fairfield County and includes Greenwich, Stamford, New Canaan, and Darien, housing some of the wealthiest residents of the United States.

The irregularity in the boundary is the result of territorial disputes in the late 1600s, culminating with New York giving up its claim to this area, whose residents considered themselves part of Connecticut, in exchange for an equivalent area extending northwards from Ridgefield, Connecticut to the Massachusetts border as well as undisputed claim to Rye, New York.

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• Connecticut's "Panhandle"

Geography of Connecticut | Panhandles