1 day ago · Boston, city, capital of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, and seat of Suffolk county, in the northeastern United States. It lies on Massachusetts Bay, an arm of the Atlantic Ocean. The city proper has an unusually small area for a major city, and more than one-fourth of the total—including part of the Charles River, Boston Harbor, and a ...
1 day ago · Greater Boston is the metropolitan region of New England encompassing the municipality of Boston (the capital of the U.S. state of Massachusetts and the most populous city in New England) and its surrounding areas. The region forms the northern arc of the Northeast megalopolis, so Greater Boston means both a metropolitan statistical area (MSA ...
- 8,466,186 (CSA), 4,941,632 (MSA)
- Boston, Worcester, Providence, Lowell, Cambridge, Quincy, Manchester, Concord
- United States
- Massachusetts (MA), Rhode Island (RI), New Hampshire (NH), Connecticut (CT)
3 days ago · Massachusetts (officially called a commonwealth) is bounded to the north by Vermont and New Hampshire, to the east and southeast by the Atlantic Ocean, to the south by Rhode Island and Connecticut, and to the west by New York. It is the seventh smallest of the U.S. states in terms of total area.
Mar 13, 2023 · Located onshore of the Atlantic Ocean is Boston – the capital, the largest and the most populous city in Massachusetts and of the larger New England region. It serves as the cultural, economic, IT, biotech, commercial, and financial hub of the state and also as an international educational center.
- Boston
- State of Massachusetts
- US-MA
Mar 19, 2023 · Its primate city, state capital, largest and most populous urban area, and major port is Boston (pop. 675,000). The largest metropolitan area is Greater Boston, with an estimated population of 4.7 million people, more than two-thirds of the total population of Massachusetts.