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This is a list of the cities and towns in New England with population over 25,000 as of the 2020 census. Massachusetts contains the most cities and towns on the list with 80, while Vermont contains the fewest with just one. Neither Vermont's nor Maine's state capitals fall within the top 150 by population.
A 1638 engraving depicting the Mystic massacre An English map of New England c. 1670 depicts the area around modern Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Relationships alternated between peace and armed skirmishes between colonists and local Native American tribes, the bloodiest of which was the Pequot War in 1637 which resulted in the Mystic massacre. [22]
New England is a region consisting of six states in the Northeastern United States: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. It is bordered by the state of New York to the west and by the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick to the northeast and Quebec to the north.
By 1860, New York City, based on its present-day boundaries, was the first U.S. city to reach a population exceeding one million. [45] [page needed] Due to the settlement of the Midwest and Great Plains, agriculture would collapse in the Mid-Atlantic and New England, with many farms being abandoned by the end of the century, returning to rural ...
The city is the site of 25 skyscrapers that rise at least 492 feet (150 m) in height, more than any other city in New England. As of 2018 [update] , the skyline of Boston is ranked 10th in the United States and 79th in the world with 57 buildings rising at least 330 feet (100 m) in height.
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.
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Massachusetts – U.S. state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic Ocean.