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The Census Bureau classifies towns in Massachusetts as a type of "minor civil division" and cities as a type of "populated place". However, from the perspective of Massachusetts law, politics, and geography, cities and towns are the same type of municipal unit, differing primarily in their form of government and some state laws which set ...
Massachusetts is the seventh-smallest state in the United States with an area of 10,555 square miles (27,340 km 2). [1] It is bordered to the north by New Hampshire and Vermont, to the west by New York, to the south by Connecticut and Rhode Island, and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Maine. Massachusetts is the most populous New ...
Massachusetts is also home to the highest ranked private high school in the United States, Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, which was founded in 1778. [257] Massachusetts's per-student public expenditure for elementary and secondary schools was eighth in the nation in 2012, at $14,844. [258]
Massachusetts' claims to land in modern-day Michigan and Wisconsin, [2] by contrast, amounted to little more than lines drawn on a map. The Treaty of Paris (1763) that ended the war known as the French and Indian War in North America had France cede most of its claims to land on the continent to Great Britain and Spain.
The Trustees are the oldest regional land trust in the world. The Trustees of Reservations own title to over 100 properties on 25,000 acres (10,000 ha) in Massachusetts, all of which are open to the public; it maintains conservation restrictions on 200 more properties.
List of some Massachusetts quasi-public agencies: [36] the Massachusetts Industrial Finance Agency, established by 496 (3) -- 1978. the Community Development Finance Corporation, established by 866 (2) -- 1975. the Massachusetts Technology Development Corporation, established by 497 (1) -- 1978. the Government Land Bank, established by 212 -- 1975.
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.
On July 21, 2023, the OMB delineated two combined statistical area, seven metropolitan statistical areas, and three micropolitan statistical area in Massachusetts. [1] As of 2023, the largest of these is the Boston-Worcester-Providence, MA-RI-NH CSA , comprising the area around Massachusetts' capital and largest city of Boston .