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Eastern Massachusetts has area codes 339, 351, 508, 617, 774, 781, 857, and 978. [8] Western Massachusetts has area code 413. [8] The numbering plan areas are organized into two local access and transport areas (LATAs): 126 comprises the western part, and 128 covers the central and eastern parts. [9]
The most restrictive definition of the Greater Boston area is the region administered by the Metropolitan Area Planning Council. [17] The MAPC is a regional planning organization created by the Massachusetts legislature to oversee transportation infrastructure and economic development concerns in the Boston area. The MAPC includes 101 cities ...
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.
name = Greater Boston area Name used in the default map caption; image = Location map Boston Metropolitan Area 2.svg The default map image, without "Image:" or "File:" top = 42.487 Latitude at top edge of map, in decimal degrees; bottom = 42.209 Latitude at bottom edge of map, in decimal degrees; left = -71.383 Longitude at left edge of map, in ...
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.
The intersection of the Massachusetts Turnpike and Route 128 is located in southeastern Weston. Several local state highways – U.S. Route 20 (Boston Post Road), Massachusetts State Route 30 (South Avenue), and Massachusetts State Route 117 (North Avenue) – also travel east and west through the town in addition to the Massachusetts Turnpike.
This 1858 map of north-central Norfolk County, shows Brookline (upper left) along with Dorchester, Roxbury, and West Roxbury, all three of which were later annexed by Boston. Once part of Algonquian territory, Brookline was first settled by European colonists in the early 17th century. The area was an outlying part of the colonial settlement of ...
Boston College, with Boston's skyline seen in the background Boston College Main Campus Historic District – 140 Commonwealth Ave. (in Newton) Chestnut Hill Historic District – roughly bounded by Middlesex Rd., Reservoir Ln., Denny Rd., Boylston St. and Dunster Rd. (added November 17, 1985) (mostly in Brookline, but includes a few properties ...