A report on Cambridge, 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.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Somerville is a city located directly to the northwest of Boston, and north of Cambridge, in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.

The first buildings were upon land now included within the limits of Cambridge known as Gerry's Landing.

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Harvard University in Cambridge is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States, with the largest financial endowment of any university.

It is included in the Census Bureau's Boston–Cambridge–Newton, MA–NH Metropolitan Statistical Area.

It crosses the Charles River from the Back Bay neighborhood of Boston into the city of Cambridge via the Harvard Bridge, where passes both US-Route 3 and MA-Route 3, it then bisects the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, passes through Central Square, and curves around two sides of Harvard Yard at Harvard Square.

Newton was settled in 1630 as part of "the newe towne", which was renamed Cambridge in 1638.

Near its mouth, it forms the border between downtown Boston and Cambridge and Charlestown.