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The North Shore has no fixed definition as a region. It may include only those communities between Boston and Cape Ann, as defined by the Metropolitan Area Planning Council (whose purview does not go beyond Greater Boston); [1] or the larger part of Essex County, including parts of the Merrimack Valley, as defined by the North Shore Chamber of Commerce. [2]
The U.S. state of Massachusetts has 14 counties, though eight [1] of these fourteen county governments were abolished between 1997 and 2000. The counties in the southeastern portion of the state retain county-level local government (Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Norfolk, Plymouth) or, in one case, (Nantucket County) consolidated city-county government.
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Two definitions are used by the United States Census to define the Boston–Cambridge–Newton, MA–NH Metro Area or Boston–Cambridge–Newton, MA–NH Metropolitan NECTA, which is defined as a New England City and Town Area. [21] [22] The metro area definition is based on counties, while the NECTA definition is based on city and town ...
The Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management limits its definition of the South Shore to the municipalities between Boston Harbor and Cape Cod, which includes Atlantic coastal and coastal watershed areas "from the three-mile (5 km) limit of the state territorial sea to 100 feet (30 m) beyond the first major land transportation route encountered (a road, highway, rail line, etc.)". [4]
The area was one of the few places in Boston where African Americans and whites intermingled. [5] Detail of 1814 map of Boston, showing Ann St. and vicinity North Street, looking up from North Square, ca.1894. Ann Street was the main thoroughfare through the neighborhood.
Boston is: a city. the county seat of Suffolk County; the capital of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts; primate city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts; Population of Boston: 673,184 (2016) Area of Boston: 89.63 sq mi (232.14 km 2) Atlas of Boston
In Eastern Massachusetts, Boston, on the coast of Massachusetts Bay, has an average January temperature of 29.0 °F (−1.7 °C). The island of Martha's Vineyard has the state's highest average temperature—31.8 °F (−0.1 °C), due to the warming effect of the Atlantic Ocean. Summer temperatures are highest in the state's urban centers, due ...