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Towns have an open town meeting or representative town meeting form of government; cities, on the other hand, use a mayor-council or council-manager form. Based on the form of government, as of 2023, [ 1 ] there are 292 towns and 59 cities in Massachusetts.
1894 map of Massachusetts The northern boundary of Massachusetts adjoins two other states: Vermont and New Hampshire . The majority of the boundary is roughly a straight line from the northwest corner of the state ( 42°44′44.7″N 73°15′54.13″W / 42.745750°N 73.2650361°W / 42.745750; -73.2650361 NAD27 [ 1 ] ) east to a ...
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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SVG map of Massachusetts with the townships Source my work based on Libre map project map Date 8-December-2008 Author Emma Pease Permission (Reusing this file)
This is a list of villages in Massachusetts, arranged alphabetically. In Massachusetts, villages usually do not have any official legal status; all villages are part of an incorporated municipality (town or city - see List of municipalities in Massachusetts ) which is the smallest official form of government.
In Eastern Massachusetts, Boston is located at the innermost point of Massachusetts Bay, at the mouth of the Charles River.The Charles River is longest river located entirely within Massachusetts, (although the Westfield River can be considered longer if one combines its upper and lower branches); however, the Connecticut River is the Commonwealth's—and New England's—longest, and most ...
Massachusetts with three major regions highlighted: Central Massachusetts in green and teal (used to show towns in Middlesex County), Eastern Massachusetts in purple and Western Massachusetts in pink. Central Massachusetts includes Worcester County and far northwestern Middlesex County Blackstone Valley; Montachusett-North County; South County