Greater Boston
The most densely populated region in Massachusetts, Greater Boston is roughly bounded by the I-95 beltway, Boston Harbor, and Massachusetts Bay.Photo: Hequals2henry, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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Popular Destinations
Boston
A city of history and tradition, Boston offers a proud legacy of culture, education, and numerous sporting championships.Downtown Boston
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Downtown Boston is really the heart of the city. Boston City Hall is here, and many powerful companies and agencies are headquartered in the area.
Destinations
Quincy
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Quincy is in Massachusetts. Quincy was the birthplace of presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams.
Lexington
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Lexington is a northwestern suburb of Boston in Massachusetts.
Somerville
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Older Bostonians might still derisively call it "Slummerville", but today that tired old moniker couldn't be further from the truth.
Brookline
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Brookline is a primarily residential, although fairly high density, suburb of Boston.
Medford
Medford is a city 6.7 miles northwest of downtown Boston on the Mystic River in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.Revere
Revere is a city in Massachusetts of 62,000. Revere Beach is the oldest public beach in the United States of America.Watertown
Watertown is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, part of Greater Boston.Everett
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Everett is a city in Massachusetts with a population of 49,000.
Woburn
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Woburn is a city in the Greater Boston region of Massachusetts with a population of 41,000.
Winthrop
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Winthrop is a town in Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States.
Dedham
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Dedham is a town in and the county seat of Norfolk County, Massachusetts.
Milton
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Milton is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States and an affluent suburb of Boston.
Stoneham
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Stoneham is a Massachusetts city of 23,000 about 9 miles northwest of Boston.
Wakefield
Wakefield, Massachusetts is a scenic town 12 miles north of Boston with a population of about 27,000.Weston
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Weston is a town in Massachusetts with a population of 12,000.
Boston Harbor Islands
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The Boston Harbor Islands are a group of thirty-four islands in Massachusetts that are a unit of the United States National Park System.
Greater Boston
- Type: metropolitan statistical area with 4,940,000 residents
- Description: metropolitan area in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Rhode Island, USA
- Category: region
- Location: Eastern Massachusetts, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude of centre
42.3582° or 42° 21' 29" northLongitude of centre
-71.0637° or 71° 3' 49" westPopulation
4,940,000Wikidata ID
Q1190137Greater Boston Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Armenian: Մեծ Բոստոն
- Asturian: Gran Boston
- Bulgarian: Голям Бостън
- Catalan: Gran Boston
- Central Kurdish: بۆستنی گەورە
- Chinese: 大波士頓
- Chinese: 大波士顿
- Chinese: 大波士顿地区
- Chinese: 波士頓都會區
- Czech: velký Boston
- English: Boston area
- English: Boston metro area
- English: Boston metropolitan area
- Esperanto: Granda Bostono
- French: Grand Boston
- Galician: Gran Boston
- German: Greater Boston
- German: Metropolregion Greater Boston
- Greek: Ευρύτερη Βοστώνη
- Hebrew: בוסטון רבתי
- Indonesian: Boston Raya
- Italian: Area metropolitana di Boston
- Japanese: グレイター・ボストン
- Japanese: グレーター・ボストン
- Japanese: ボストン都市圏
- Japanese: 大ボストン
- Korean: 그레이터 보스턴
- Korean: 메트로 보스턴
- Korean: 보스턴권
- Korean: 보스턴 대도시권
- Persian: بوستون بزرگ
- Polish: Wielki Boston
- Russian: Большой Бостон
- Scots: Greater Boston
- Slovenian: Greater Boston
- Slovenian: Metropolitansko območje Boston
- Slovenian: Veliki Boston
- South Azerbaijani: قرئیتر بوزتون
- Spanish: Area metropolitana de Boston-Cambridge-Quincy
- Spanish: Gran Boston
- Spanish: Área metropolitana de Boston-Cambridge-Quincy
- Swedish: Greater Boston
- Swedish: Storboston
- Tamil: பெருநகர பாஸ்டன்
- Ukrainian: Великий Бостон
- Urdu: بوسٹن عظمی
- Vietnamese: Vùng đô thị Boston
- Vietnamese: Đại Boston
- Vùng Đại Boston
- 보스턴 도시권
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Greater Boston. Photo: Traveler100, CC BY-SA 3.0.