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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 ...
The total population is 6,981,974, making it the 16th most populous state as of 2023 estimates. [5] Massachusetts has a density of 895 people per square mile, [6] making it the third most dense of the fifty states (fifth including District of Columbia and Puerto Rico).
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has designated more than 1,000 statistical areas for the United States and Puerto Rico. [2] These statistical areas are important geographic delineations of population clusters used by the OMB, the United States Census Bureau, planning organizations, and federal, state, and local government entities.
As the United States has grown in area and population, new states have been formed out of U.S. territories or the division of existing states. The population figures provided here reflect modern state boundaries. Shaded areas of the tables indicate census years when a territory or the part of another state had not yet been admitted as a new state.
Boston is the state capital in Massachusetts. The population of the city proper is 692,600, [393] and Greater Boston, with a population of 4,873,019, is the 11th largest metropolitan area in the nation. [394] Other cities with a population over 100,000 include Worcester, Springfield, Lowell, Cambridge, Brockton, Quincy, New Bedford, and Lynn.
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The population amounted to approximately 12.84% of the 2000 population of the entire state of Massachusetts, which was 6,349,097. [17] Its average population density is 293.07 inhabitants per square mile (113.16/km 2 ), compared to 422.34/km 2 (1,093.87/sq mi) for the rest of Massachusetts, and 312.68/km 2 (809.83/sq mi) for the state as a whole.