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Communities

New Hampshire, region by region.

New Hampshire's 234 cities and towns are organized here by region. Each community page collects geography, housing, transportation and municipal information in one place.

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Municipal boundaries come from official US Census geography. Select a town to open its community guide, or hover a region to highlight its towns.

Hover, tap or tab to a municipality to see its name. Towns with a guide open their community page.

Boundaries: US Census Bureau 2023 Cartographic Boundary Files, New Hampshire county subdivisions.

Regions

Every one of New Hampshire's 259 municipalities is drawn from official Census boundaries. Hover or focus a region to highlight the towns assigned to it; towns outside the six editorial regions remain interactive.

Regions

Six regions

Sandy beach and rocky shoreline on the New Hampshire seacoast with shingled coastal homes above the bluff

Seacoast

Portsmouth, Rye, Hampton and New Hampshire's coastal communities.

Historic red brick Amoskeag mill buildings along the Merrimack River in Manchester, New Hampshire

Greater Manchester

Manchester and surrounding communities at the center of southern New Hampshire.

White colonial homes with black shutters and stone walls on a tree-lined southern New Hampshire street

Greater Nashua

Nashua, Hollis, Amherst and communities along the Massachusetts border.

Lake Winnipesaukee in summer with a wooden dock, pine islands and a shingled lakefront house

Lakes Region

Lake Winnipesaukee, Meredith, Wolfeboro and surrounding lake communities.

White farmhouse in a green meadow below the forested peaks of the White Mountains in early autumn

White Mountains

Mountain communities, recreation destinations and four-season living.

Brick main street buildings and a shaded town common with Mount Monadnock rising behind

Monadnock Region

Keene, Peterborough and the distinctive communities of southwestern New Hampshire.

Communities

Cities and towns

Portsmouth, New Hampshire waterfront with brick buildings, white clapboard houses and sailboats on the Piscataqua River

Portsmouth

Historic port city on the Piscataqua River with a compact, walkable downtown.

White clapboard colonial home with black shutters, granite steps and stone walls in summer

Bedford

Greater Manchester

Residential town on the west bank of the Merrimack River adjoining Manchester.

New England town common with a white steepled meeting house, shade trees and a brick sidewalk

Nashua

The state's second-largest city, at the confluence of the Nashua and Merrimack rivers.

Brick Amoskeag mill buildings beside the Merrimack River in Manchester, New Hampshire

Manchester

Greater Manchester

New Hampshire's largest city, built around the Amoskeag millyard on the Merrimack River.

White New England meeting house and shaded town common in summer

Concord

Greater Manchester

The state capital, on the Merrimack River in central New Hampshire.

Historic white meeting house and green town common in a New Hampshire village

Amherst

Town northwest of Nashua with a preserved eighteenth-century village center.

Colonial New England farmhouse with stone wall and mature plantings in summer

Hollis

Rural town on the Massachusetts border with substantial working farmland.

Brick and clapboard buildings around a New England town common

Exeter

Seacoast town at the head of tidewater on the Squamscott River.

New England downtown street with brick buildings and shade trees

Dover

Strafford County city on the Cocheco River with a restored mill downtown.

Tree-lined New England street with white clapboard buildings

Durham

Town on Great Bay and home to the University of New Hampshire.

Aerial view of a New Hampshire river valley with a white church steeple and forested hills

Hanover

Connecticut River town in the Upper Valley, home to Dartmouth College.

Summer view of Lake Winnipesaukee with docks, pine islands and a lakefront home

Meredith

Lakes Region town on Meredith Bay at the northwest corner of Lake Winnipesaukee.

Docks and clear water on Lake Winnipesaukee with forested shoreline

Wolfeboro

Town on the eastern shore of Lake Winnipesaukee with a compact downtown on the water.

Brick main street buildings and a shaded common with Mount Monadnock in the distance

Keene

Monadnock Region

Cheshire County seat and commercial center of southwestern New Hampshire.

Historic brick and clapboard village buildings below Mount Monadnock

Peterborough

Monadnock Region

Monadnock Region town at the confluence of the Contoocook and Nubanusit rivers.

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