A report on Greater Boston, Boston and Watertown, Massachusetts

Light Blue represents the area in Massachusetts known as Greater Boston, while Dark Blue represents the Metro-Boston area and Red represents the City of Boston.

In 1773, a group of angered Bostonian citizens threw a shipment of tea by the East India Company into Boston Harbor as a response to the Tea Act, in an event known as the Boston Tea Party.

Cambridge and Boston; MIT and Kendall Square in the foreground, and Boston's Financial District in the background

Map showing a British tactical evaluation of Boston in 1775.

Saltonstall's landing spot in Watertown, also known as Elbridge Gerry Landing

Boston, as the Eagle and the Wild Goose See It, 1860, by J.W. Black, the first recorded aerial photograph

Edmund Fowle House, built in the 1700s and used by the Massachusetts government during the Revolutionary War

St. Patrick's Day Parade in Scituate, Massachusetts, in Plymouth County, the municipality with the highest percentage identifying Irish ancestry in the United States, at 47.5% in 2010. Irish Americans constitute the largest ethnicity in Greater Boston.

Boston's Chinatown, with its paifang gate, is home to many Chinese and also Vietnamese restaurants.

View of downtown Boston from Dorchester Heights, 1841

Boston gay pride march, held annually in June

Hairenik Association building – Watertown, Mass.

Harvard University, a leading global university, is located in Cambridge, MA in Greater Boston

The was home to the Boston city council from 1865 to 1969.

The MBTA district, with Commuter Rail lines in purple

General view of Boston, by J. J. Hawes, c. 1860s–1880s

The Salem Ferry, 92 ft. Catamaran is photographed approaching its dock off Blaney Street at the Salem Maritime National Historic Site in Salem, Massachusetts, United States.

Boston as seen from ESA Sentinel-2. Boston Harbor, at the center, has made Boston a major shipping port since its founding.

200 Clarendon Street is the tallest building in Boston, with a roof height of 790 ft.

Boston's skyline in the background, with fall foliage in the foreground

A graph of cumulative winter snowfall at Logan International Airport from 1938 to 2015. The four winters with the most snowfall are highlighted. The snowfall data, which was collected by NOAA, is from the weather station at the airport.

Per capita income in the Greater Boston area, by US Census block group, 2000. The dashed line shows the boundary of the City of Boston.

Map of racial distribution in Boston, 2010 U.S. Census. Each dot is 25 people:

Chinatown, with its paifang gate, is home to many Chinese and also Vietnamese restaurants.

U.S. Navy sailors march in Boston's annual St. Patrick's Day Parade. Irish Americans constitute the largest ethnicity in Boston.

Old South Church, a United Church of Christ congregation first organized in 1669

Boston Latin School was established in 1635 and is the oldest public high school in the US.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is often cited as among the world's top universities

Harvard Business School, one of the country's top business schools

A Boston Police cruiser on Beacon Street

The Old State House, a museum on the Freedom Trail near the site of the Boston massacre

In the nineteenth century, the Old Corner Bookstore became a gathering place for writers, including Emerson, Thoreau, and Margaret Fuller. Here James Russell Lowell printed the first editions of The Atlantic Monthly.

Symphony Hall, home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra

Population density and elevation above sea level in Greater Boston (2010)

Fenway Park is the oldest professional baseball stadium still in use.

Harvard Stadium, the first collegiate athletic stadium built in the U.S.

Chamber of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in the Massachusetts State House

Boston City Hall is a Brutalist landmark in the city

Harvard Medical School, one of the most prestigious medical schools in the world

An MBTA Red Line train departing Boston for Cambridge. Bostonians depend heavily on public transit, with over 1.3 million Bostonians riding the city's buses and trains daily (2013).

South Station, the busiest rail hub in New England, is a terminus of Amtrak and numerous MBTA rail lines.

Headquarters of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

Greater Boston is the metropolitan region of New England encompassing the municipality of Boston (the capital of the U.S. state of Massachusetts and the most populous city in New England) and its surrounding areas.

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Watertown is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, and is part of Greater Boston.

- Watertown, Massachusetts

The city is the economic and cultural anchor of a substantially larger metropolitan area known as Greater Boston, a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) home to a census-estimated 4.8 million people in 2016 and ranking as the tenth-largest MSA in the country.

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For its first quarter century Watertown ranked next to Boston in population and area.

- Watertown, Massachusetts

It is bordered to the east by the town of Winthrop and the Boston Harbor Islands, to the northeast by the cities of Revere, Chelsea and Everett, to the north by the cities of Somerville and Cambridge, to the northwest by Watertown, to the west by the city of Newton and town of Brookline, to the southwest by the town of Dedham and small portions of Needham and Canton, and to the southeast by the town of Milton, and the city of Quincy.

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Map showing the original boundaries of Cambridge and other Massachusetts cities and towns

1852 Map of Boston area showing Cambridge and regional rail lines and highlighting the course of the Middlesex Canal. Cambridge is toward the bottom of the map and outlined in yellow, and should not be confused with the pink-outlined and partially cropped "West Cambridge", now Arlington.

A view from Boston of Harvard's Weld Boathouse and Cambridge in winter. The Charles River is in the foreground.

Buildings of Kendall Square, center of Cambridge's biotech economy, seen from the Charles River

Longfellow House–Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site

Aerial view of part of MIT's main campus

The 1888 part of the Cambridge Public Library

The Weeks Bridge provides a pedestrian-only connection between Boston's Allston-Brighton neighborhood and Cambridge over the Charles River.

Engine 2, Paramedic Squad 2, Ladder 3 firehouse

Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, and part of the Boston metropolitan area as a major suburb of Boston.

As of the 2020 United States Census, the city's population was 118,403, making it the fourth most populous city in the state, behind Boston, Worcester, and Springfield.

Located at the first convenient Charles River crossing west of Boston, Newtowne was one of several towns (including Boston, Dorchester, Watertown, and Weymouth) founded by the 700 original Puritan colonists of the Massachusetts Bay Colony under Governor John Winthrop.