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According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 9.4 square miles (24 km 2), of which 8.9 square miles (23 km 2) is land and 0.5 square miles (1.3 km 2), or 4.99%, is water.
Worcester (/ ˈ w ʊ s t ər / ⓘ WUUST-ər, locally ⓘ) [4] is the second-most populous city in the U.S. state of Massachusetts and the 114th most populous city in the United States. [a] [5] Named after Worcester, England, the city had 206,518 people at the 2020 census, [6] also making it the second-most populous city in New England, after Boston, Massachusetts.
Native Americans lived in northeastern Massachusetts for thousands of years prior to European colonization of the Americas.The peninsula that would become Salem was known as Naumkeag (alternate spellings Naemkeck, [9] Nahumkek, [10] Neumkeage [11]) by the native people who lived there at the time of contact in the early 1600s.