Electrical connector with surrounding shield member with outward protrusion connected to a circuit board

A connector that can be fitted with a counter connector in a first direction and is mounted on a board, the connector comprising:

• a contact that contacts a counter contact of the counter connector;
• a housing to which the contact is fitted and attached;
• and
• a surrounding wall disposed to surround the housing,
• wherein a gap is provided between the housing and the surrounding wall,
• wherein in a state where the connector is fitted with the counter connector, the surrounding wall is in contact with a counter surrounding wall of the counter connector that has entered the gap,
• wherein the surrounding wall includes a wall body rising from the board in the first direction, a bending portion connected to the wall body on an opposite side from the board in the first direction, and an extension portion extending from the bending portion to a side on which the board is situated in the first direction,
• wherein the extension portion is situated outside the wall body in a second direction intersecting the first direction, and an end on the board side of the extension portion in the first direction is in contact with the board,
• wherein the bending portion includes a plurality of bending portions disposed separately from one another in a third direction intersecting the first direction and the second direction,
• wherein the extension portion is provided at and extends from each of the bending portions, and
• wherein each of the bending portions has a same width in the third direction as that of the extension portion extending from each of the bending portions.