Newport is an American seaside city on Aquidneck Island in Newport County, Rhode Island. It is located in Narragansett Bay, approximately 33 miles (53 km) southeast of Providence, 20 miles (32 km) south of Fall River, Massachusetts, 74 miles (119 km) south of Boston, and 180 miles (290 km) northeast of New York City. It is known as a New England summer resort and is famous for its historic mansions and its rich sailing history.

It was the location of the first U.S. Open tournaments in both tennis and golf, as capably as all challenge to the America’s Cup between 1930 and 1983. It is moreover the home of Salve Regina University and Naval Station Newport, which houses the United States Naval War College, the Naval Undersea Warfare Center, and an important Navy training center. It was a major 18th-century port city and boasts many buildings from the Colonial era.

The city is the county chair of Newport County, which has no governmental functions extra than court administrative and sheriff corrections boundaries. It was known for brute the location of the “Summer White Houses” during the administrations of presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy. The population was 25,163 at the 2020 census.

Newport was founded in 1639 upon Aquidneck Island, the Narragansett state for Rhode Island. Its eight founders and first officers were Nicholas Easton, William Coddington, John Clarke, John Coggeshall, William Brenton, Jeremy Clark, Thomas Hazard, and Henry Bull. Many of these people were allocation of the settlement at Portsmouth, along past Anne Hutchinson and her followers. They not speaking within a year of that settling Portsmouth, so Coddington and the others began the agreement of Newport upon the southern side of the island.