Question: Andover, located in Essex County, Massachusetts, is an example of a basic unit of local government and local division of state authority in each of the six New England states, commonly referred to in other states as what?
Context: A Vermont municipality is a particular type of New England municipality.  It is the basic unit of local government. The Essex Junto was a powerful group of New England Federalist Party lawyers, merchants, and politicians, so named because many of the original group were from Essex County, Massachusetts.  The term was coined by John Hancock in 1778 to describe the main opponents of a proposed constitution for the state of Massachusetts.  The proposed constitution was rejected by the people; the state adopted its constitution in 1780.  John Adams is also frequently credited with disseminating the name.  Over the following years the group expanded to include politicians from other New England states who were opposed to Democratic-Republican Party policies that dominated national politics. Lawrence is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States, on the Merrimack River.  As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 76,377, which had risen to an estimated 78,197 as of 2014.  Surrounding communities include Methuen to the north, Andover to the southwest, and North Andover to the southeast.  Lawrence and Salem are the county seats of Essex County.  Lawrence is part of the Merrimack Valley. Essex County Airport (IATA: KCDW, ICAO: CDW) , informally "Caldwell Airport", is a public use airport located in Fairfield Township, Essex County, New Jersey, two nautical miles (4 km) north of the central business district of Caldwell, a borough of northwestern Essex County in the U.S. state of New Jersey.  It is owned by the Essex County Improvement Authority.  This facility is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a general aviation "reliever airport". The Northeast Interstate Dairy Compact is an agreement among the six New England states to support the farm price of milk used for fluid consumption at a higher level than under federally mandated minimum prices in the region.  From 1997 until its expiration on September 30, 2001, the Northeast compact required processors in the region to pay dairy farmers at least $16.94/cwt.  for farm milk used for fluid consumption.  The law allowed membership in the compact to expand to New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and Virginia, if the prospective state was contiguous to a member state, and if the compact was approved by the state legislature of the prospective state and the U.S. Congress.  Although many states expressed interest in joining the compact or forming a separate compact, no congressional approval was granted beyond the six New England states, because of strong opposition from Upper Midwest dairy farmers and dairy processors.  The dairy compact has been replaced with Milk Income Loss Contract (MILC) payments under the 2002 farm bill (P.L. 107-171, Sec. 1502), which mandates direct federal payments to all participating dairy farmers nationwide when the minimum price for fluid farm milk in the Northeast falls below $16.94 per cwt. The New England District is one of the 35 districts of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS), and encompasses all six New England states: Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut.  In addition, three in southwest Connecticut are in the non-geographic SELC District.  The New England District includes approximately 70 congregations and missions, subdivided into 9 circuits, as well as 24 preschools and 5 elementary schools.  Baptized membership is over 22,000; with New England's total population standing at 14,240,000 as of 2005, the District's membership represents only 0.16% of the local population – the lowest of any of the LCMS' 33 geographical districts. a humid continental climate, with warm summers and cold, snowy winters.  Massachusetts is a state located in the New England region of the northeastern United States.  Most of its population of 6.4 million live in the Boston metropolitan area.  The eastern half of this relatively small state is mostly urban and suburban.  Massachusetts is the most populous of the six New England states and ranks third in overall population density and fourth by GDP per capita.  Massachusetts receives about 50 inches (1016 mm) of rain annually, fairly evenly distributed throughout the year, slightly wetter during the winter.  Summers are warm with average high temperatures in July above 80 °F (26.7 °C) and overnight lows above 60 °F (15.5 °C) common throughout the state.  Winters are cold, but generally less extreme on the coast with high temperatures in the winter averaging above freezing even in January, although areas further inland are much colder.  The state does have extreme temperatures from time to time with 90 °F (32.2 °C) in the summer and temperatures below 0 °F (-17.8 °C) in the winter not being unusual. The 2003 NECBL season marked the tenth season of the existence of the New England Collegiate Baseball League.  The league expanded to thirteen teams with the addition of the Vermont Mountaineers of Montpelier, Vermont.  The franchise was the league's first in the New England state of Vermont.  This marked the fulfillment of the league's goal of having a franchise in each of the six New England states: Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Maine, and Vermont. Andover is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States.  It was settled in 1642 and later incorporated in 1646.  As of the 2010 census, the population was 33,201.  It is part of the Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, Massachusetts-New Hampshire metropolitan statistical area. The New England town (generally referred to simply as a town in New England) is the basic unit of local government and local division of state authority in each of the six New England states and without a direct counterpart in most other U.S. states.  New England towns overlay the entire area of a state, similar to civil townships in other states where they exist, but they are fully functioning municipal corporations, possessing powers similar to cities in other states.  New Jersey's system of equally powerful townships, boroughs, towns, and cities is the system which is most similar to that of New England.  New England towns are often governed by a town meeting legislative body.  The great majority of municipal corporations in New England are based on the town model; statutory forms based on the concept of a compact populated place are uncommon, though they are prevalent elsewhere in the U.S. County government in New England states is typically weak at best, and in some states nonexistent.  Connecticut, for example, has no county governments,
Answer: cities