Boston

Boston (pronooncit ) is the caipital o an maistmuckle city in Massachusetts, an is ane o the auldest cities in the Unitit States. The maistmuckle city in New Ingland, Boston is regardit as the unoffeecial "Caipital o New Ingland" for its economic an cultural impact on the hale o the New Ingland airt. The city proper haed a 2009 estimatit population o 645,169 fowk, makin it the twintiet maistmuckle city in the kintra. Boston is the anchor o a substantially bigger metropolitan area cried Greater Boston as weel, hame tae 4.5 million fowk an the tent-maistmuckle metropolitan area in the kintra. Greater Boston as a commutin region includes sax Massachusetts coonties: Essex, Middlesex, Norfolk, Suffolk, Plymouth, Worcester, 21 pp. northren Bristol Coonty, aw o Rhode Island an pairts o New Hampshire; it is hame tae 7.6 million fowk, makkin it the fift-maistmuckle Combined Statistical Area in the Unitit States. Included in the CSA: MA counties: Bristol, Essex, Middlesex, Norfolk, Plymouth, Suffolk and Worcester; NH counties: Belknap, Hillsborough, Merrimack, Rockingham and Strafford; RI counties (entire state): Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence and Washington (South County)

 Sister cities 

Boston haes aicht offeecial sister ceeties as recognised bi Sister Cities International. The date column indicates the year in which the relationship wis established. Kyoto wis Boston's first sister ceety.

 Ceety Kintra Date References Kyoto  Japan 1959 Strasbourg  Fraunce 1960 Barcelona  Spain 1980 Hangzhou  Fowkrepublic o Cheenae 1982  Padua  Italy 1983 Melbourne  Australie 1985 Taipei  Republic o Cheenae (Taiwan) 1996 Sekondi-Takoradi  Ghana 2001 

Boston an aa haes less formal friendship or pairtnership relationships wi a additional three ceeties.

 Ceety Kintra Date References Boston, Lincolnshire  Unitit Kinrick 1999 Haifa  Israel 1999 Valladolid  Spain 2007

 References 


Category:Ceeties in Massachusetts
Category:Coonty seats in Massachusetts
Category:Erse American history
Category:Erse-American cultur
Category:Populatit coastal places in Massachusetts
Category:Populatit places established in 1630
Category:Populatit places in Suffolk Coonty, Massachusetts
Category:Port ceeties an touns o the Unitit States Atlantic coast
Category:Varsity touns in the Unitit States
Category:State caipitals in the Unitit States