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Chittenden

county, Vermont, United States
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Chittenden, county, northwestern Vermont, U.S. It lies between Lake Champlain (constituting the border with New York state) to the west and the Green Mountains to the east. The terrain is characterized by lowlands in the west, including a few islands and bay inlets in Lake Champlain, and mountains in the east, most prominently Mount Mansfield (4,393 feet [1,339 metres]), Vermont’s highest mountain. The county is bisected east-west by the Winooski River. Other waterways are the Lamoille, Browns, Huntington, and La Platte rivers, as well as Shelburne Pond, Lake Iroquois, and Arrowhead Mountain Lake. Forests consist of hardwoods and white pine. ...(100 of 248 words)

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