The present name is after the town of Stamford, Lincolnshire, England. Stamford was known as Rippowam by the Siwanoy Native American inhabitants of the region, and the very first European settlers in the area also called it that.
Main article: History of Stamford, Connecticut Its metropolitan division is home to colleges and universities including UConn Stamford and Norwalk Community College. Dominant sectors of Stamford's economy include financial management and real estate, tourism, information technology, healthcare, telecommunications, transportation, and retail. This gives it the largest financial district in the New York metropolitan region outside New York City and one of the nation's largest concentrations of corporations. It is in the Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk-Danbury metropolitan statistical area, which is part of the New York City metropolitan area (specifically, the New York–Newark, NY–NJ–CT–PA Combined Statistical Area).Īs of 2023, Stamford is home to eight Fortune 500 companies and numerous divisions of large corporations.
With a population of 135,470, Stamford passed Hartford and New Haven in population as of the 2020 census. It is the largest city in the Western Connecticut Planning Region, and Connecticut's second-most populous city, behind Bridgeport. Stamford ( / ˈ s t æ m f ər d/) is a city in Fairfield County, Connecticut, 34 miles (55 kilometers) outside of New York City.
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