Providence, Rhode Island

Providence is the caipital an maist muckle ceety of the state o Rhode Island an wis ane o the first ceeties established in the Unitit States. Locatit in Providence Coonty, it is the third lairgest ceety in the New Ingland region. The ceety proper population o 178,042 anchors the 37t lairgest metropolitan population in the kintra, wi an estimatit MSA population o 1,600,856, exceedin that o Rhode Island bi aboot 60% due tae its reachin intae soothren Massachusetts. This MSA in turn is pairt o the lairger Greater Boston commutin aurie, which contains 7.6 million fowk. Situatit at the mooth of the Providence River, at the heid o Narragansett Bay, the ceety's smaw fuitprint is crisscrossed bi seemingly erratic streets an contains a rapidly chyngin demographic.

 Sister ceeties 
Providence haes fower sister ceeties designatit bi Sister Cities International:
  Phnom Penh
  Florence
  Riga
  Santo Domingo
  Guatemala Ceety

 References 


Category:Ceeties in Rhode Island
Category:Populatit places established in the 1630s
Category:Port ceeties an touns o the Unitit States Atlantic coast
Category:Early American industrial centres
Category:Coonty seats in Rhode Island
Category:Populatit coastal places in Rhode Island