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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]
Massachusetts is the second wealthiest state in the United States of America, with a median household income of $89,026 (as of 2021), [1] and a per capita income of $48,617 (as of 2021). [2] Many of the state's wealthiest towns are located in the Boston suburbs.
Massachusetts College of Art and Design: Boston: Public: Special-focus: 1,986 1873 1954 Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences: Boston: Private: Special-focus: 6,321 1823 1974 Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Cambridge: Private: Research: 11,920 1861 1929 MGH Institute of Health Professions: Boston: Private: Special-focus ...
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 bay extends from Cape Ann on the north to Plymouth Harbor on the south, a distance of about 42 miles (68 km). Its northern and southern shores incline toward each other through the entrance to Boston Harbor, where they are about five miles apart. The depth from the base of the triangle to Boston Harbor is about 21 miles (34 km).
The islands of Massachusetts range from barren, almost completely submerged rocks in Massachusetts Bay (e.g. Abbott Rock, first on the list below) to the large, famous and heavily visited Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket. The recent history of Massachusetts' islands includes creation by flooding, connection to the mainland and subsumption into ...
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Other major highways include US 1, which carries traffic to the North Shore and areas south of Boston, US 3, which connects to the northwestern suburbs, Massachusetts Route 3, which connects to the South Shore and Cape Cod, and Massachusetts Route 2 which connects to the western suburbs.