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Connecticut, the nation's third smallest state, covers 4,845 square miles. It has 3.4 million residents, making it the fourth most densely populated state. Most of the state's population is concentrated along the coast in Bridgeport, New Haven, and Stamford and in the center of the state in Hartford (the state capital) and Waterbury. Each of these cities has a population between 100,000 and 150,000, and these urban areas are more ethnically diverse than the rest of the state. The state's population is 77.5 percent Caucasian, 9.4 percent Hispanic or Latino, 9.1 percent African American, 2.4 percent Asian, and the remainder is American Indian or other races. The ethnic diversity of the state's urban areas provides the opportunity for drug distributors of various races or ethnicities to blend with the resident population.