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The Southeastern Connecticut region comprises, as the name suggests, the southeastern corner of the state of Connecticut. It is sometimes referred to as Greater New London or by the tourist slogan Mystic and More.

Southeastern Connecticut has historically been an area heavily dependent on traditional New England economic activities such as fishing, whaling, oystering, and the defense industry. In the present day, the area remains the primary home of the state's fishing and shellfish activity, but has since diversified its economic base to include tourism, gambling, and other services. Culturally, the area is heavily influenced by a mixture of its Yankee past and more recent immigrant groups, most notably Portuguese-Americans. The region can be said to be somewhat similar in this aspect to New Bedford, Massachusetts.

The area is home to the United States Coast Guard Academy in New London, a United States Navy base in Groton (also home to Electric Boat where the first U.S. nuclear submarine, the USS Nautilus (SSN-571), was launched, on January 21, 1954), a Pfizer research facility, and the Mohegan Sun and Foxwoods casinos.

Contents 1 Definitions 1.1 Southeastern Connecticut 1.2 Southeast Service Delivery Area 1.3 New England City and Town Area 1.4 Metropolitan Statistical Area 1.5 New London Labor Market Area

There are several official definitions for the region. In all definitions, the following 16 towns are always included:

• Bozrah
• East Lyme
• Franklin
• Griswold
• Groton
• Ledyard
• Lisbon
• Montville
• New London (central city)
• North Stonington
• Norwich (central city)
• Preston
• Salem
• Sprague
• Stonington
• Waterford

This is an official region administered by the Southeastern Connecticut Council of Governments. It consists of 18 towns and oversees land use and transportation infrastructure planning for its member towns. In addition to the towns listed above, the towns of Colchester and Voluntown are also included.

This definition adds the towns of Lyme, Old Lyme, and Voluntown to the 16 core towns listed above for a total of 19 towns.

The Norwich-New London NECTA is the metropolitan area surrounding the Norwich/New London urbanized area using towns as building blocks. This definition contains 21 towns and adds the towns of Canterbury, Lyme, Old Lyme, Voluntown, as well as the town of Westerly in Rhode Island.

The Norwich-New London MSA is a metropolitan area definition using counties as building blocks. It consists of the 21 towns of New London County and adds the towns of Colchester, Lebanon, Lyme, Old Lyme, and Voluntown.

This definition contains 22 towns and adds the towns of Canterbury, Old Lyme, Old Saybrook, and Plainfield, as well as two towns in Rhode Island: Hopkinton and Westerly.

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