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Demographics

Statehood: March 4, 1791, the 14th state

Capital: Montpelier

Total Area: 43rd among states, 24,903 sq km (9,615 sq mi)

Water Area: 948 sq km (366 sq mi)

Highest Point: Mount Mansfield, 1,339 m (4,393 ft)

Total Population:   49th among states
2000 census -  608,287
2005 estimate -  623,050

Population Density in 2000: 25 people per sq km (64 per sq mi)

Distribution in 1990: 32% Urban, 68% Rural

Economy:
Gross State Product - $14.6 billion (1996)
Personal income per Capita - $23,018 (1997)

Largest cities in 2000:
Burlington: 38,089
South Burlington: 15,814
Rutland: 4,038

In 1775 Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys won one of the first important American victories of the Revolutionary War by capturing Fort Ticonderoga and Crown Point.
Montpelier, with 8247 residents, has the smallest population of any state capital.
Woodstock in central Vermont became the site of the nation's first ski tow in 1933.
Vermont was the first state after the original 13 colonies to join the United States.
In ratio of cows to people, Vermont has the greatest number of dairy cows in the country.
Vermont makes more maple syrup, marble and monument granite than any other state.
Vermont's largest employer is IBM.
United States Presidents born in Vermont, Chester A. Arthur (1881, 23rd President) and Calvin Coolidge (1923, 30th President)
The area which is today Vermont was first explored by Frenchman Samuel de Champlain in 1609, when he claimed it for his home country.
Vermont’s state capitol building is one of only a few to have a gold dome. A statue of Ceres sits atop the dome.
The first Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream store opened in Burlington in 1978.

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