Danbury is a city in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States, located nearly 50 miles (80 km) northeast of New York City. Danbury’s population as of 2022 was 87,642. It is the seventh largest city in Connecticut.

Danbury is nicknamed the “Hat City” because it was the center of the American hat industry for a times in the nineteenth and yet to be twentieth centuries. The mineral danburite is named for Danbury while the city itself is named for Danbury in Essex, England.

Danbury is home to Danbury Hospital, Western Connecticut State University, Danbury Fair Mall and Danbury Municipal Airport. In November 2015, USA Today ranked Danbury as the second best city to live in the United States. In April 2021, WalletHub ranked Danbury as the 10th most diverse city in the United States, the most diverse city in New England, and the third most diverse city in the New York metropolitan area (behind Jersey City and New York City). The ranking considers socioeconomic, cultural, economic, household, and religious diversity.

Danbury was settled by colonists in 1685, when eight families moved from what are now Norwalk and Stamford, Connecticut. The Danbury area was after that called Pahquioque by its namesake, the Algonquian-speaking Pahquioque Native Americans (they are believed to have been a band of the Paugusset people), who occupied lands along the Still River. Bands were often identified by such geographic designation but they were joined with the larger nation by culture and language).