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Lake Avenue/Quinsigamond Lake spans several neighborhoods in South Worcester and East Worcester. [2] Park Ave skirts the eastern edge of West Worcester. [2] The Edgemere neighborhood is primarily in neighboring Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. [2] The Arts District spans several neighborhoods in Central City. [3]
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.
Area code 774 was added to the 508 numbering plan area on May 2, 2001, forming an overlay complex and making ten-digit dialing mandatory for all calls. Some mobile telephone numbers assigned in the 1990s in communities in the former northern half of 508 (now the 978 area code) kept the area code after the split. [citation needed]
Numbering plan areas and area codes since May 2001 September 1997 [1] – May 2001 [2] July 1988 [3] – September 1997 [4] [5] October 1947 – July 1988 [6]. Massachusetts is divided into five distinct numbering plan areas (NPAs), which are served by nine area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP), [7] organized as four overlay complexes and a single-area code NPA.
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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the number of corporate headquarters (of the 2,000 largest corporations in the world) ... No other Massachusetts cities besides Boston and Worcester, made the list, and no cities in Maine, New ...
City Worcester Mayor-Council 43,782 29.7 sq mi (76.92 km 2) 28.9 sq mi (74.85 km 2) 1740 Beverly: City Essex Mayor-Council 42,670 22.6 sq mi (58.53 km 2) 15.1 sq mi (39.11 km 2) 1668 Billerica: Town Middlesex Representative town meeting 42,119 26.4 sq mi (68.38 km 2) 25.9 sq mi (67.08 km 2) 1655 Fitchburg: City Worcester Mayor-Council 41,946