Boston

A city of history and tradition, Boston offers a proud legacy of culture, education, and numerous sporting championships. The "shining city on a hill"s independent spirit has been displayed to the world ever since colonists were angry over a British tax on their beloved tea and dumped shiploads of it into the harbor in protest.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Downtown Boston and Back Bay-Beacon Hill.

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is really the heart of the city.

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Historical heavyweights, Back Bay and Beacon Hill are some of Boston's most beautiful neighborhoods.

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is modern, clean…

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as South Boston and Allston-Brighton.

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Honor. Tradition. Loyalty.

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Both bound closely with Boston while remaining a bit…

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Known as "Little Italy" for over a hundred years, the…

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The neighborhood is named after Kenmore…

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So, you've decided to visit .

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Possessing the largest Victorian row house district…

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Jamaica Plain and Mission Hill are two distinct neighborhoods within the City of Boston.

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One of the first towns founded in Massachusetts Bay…

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Boston's was the traditional home of employees at the now-decommissioned Navy Yard.

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The of Boston are four distinct…

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A lot of neighborhoods claim to be diverse, but is the real deal.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include TD Garden and Massachusetts General Hospital.

Stadium
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is a multi-purpose arena in Boston, Massachusetts.

Hospital
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is a teaching hospital…

Government building
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The , also known as the…

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Cambridge and Somerville.

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is a city in , across the Charles River from Boston.

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Older Bostonians might still derisively call…

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is a city in with a population of 49,000.

Boston

  • City with 676,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 46 feet (14 metres)
  • …has the IATA airport code BOS
  • Description: capital city of the U.S. state of Massachusetts and seat of Suffolk County
  • Postal codes
    02108-02118
    02123
    02127
    02128
    02133
    02163
    02196
    02199
    02201
    02203-02206
    02210
    02211
    02215
    02217
    02222
    02241
    02266
    02283
    02284
    02293
    02297
  • Also known as
    “Baston”
    “Bean Town”
    “Boston (MA)”
    “Boston MA, United States”
    “Boston, Mass.”
    “Boston, Massachusetts, United States”
    “Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America”
    “Boston, Massachusetts, US”
    “Boston, United States”
    “Boston, USA”
    “Bostonia”
    “Capital of Massachusetts”
    “City of Boston”
    “Mushauwomuk”
    “Old Boston”
    “Puritan City”
    “Shawmut”
    “Shawmutt”
    “Shawnnut”
    “The Athens of America”
    “The Cradle of Liberty”
    “The Cradle of Modern America”
    “The Hub”
    “The hub of the universe”
    “The Walking City”
    “Totant”
    “Tramount”
    “Tremont”
    “Trimountain”
    “Trimountaine”
    “Wahstoronòn:ke”
    “Wastok”
  • Neighbors
  • Categories
    city in the United States
    big city
    county seat
    locality
  • Location
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Latitude
42.3588° or 42° 21′ 32″ north
Longitude
-71.0578° or 71° 3′ 28″ west
UN/LOCODE
US BOS
Open location code
87JC9W5R+GV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158809705
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4930956
Wiki­data ID
Q100

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Boston” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Boston”
  • Albanian: “Boston”
  • Amharic: “ቦስቶን”
  • Arabic: “بُسْطُنُ”
  • Arabic: “بوسطن”
  • Aragonese: “Boston”
  • Armenian: “Բոստոն”
  • Arpitan: “Boston”
  • Asturian: “Boston, MA”
  • Asturian: “Boston”
  • Aymara: “Boston”
  • Azerbaijani: “Boston, Massaçusets”
  • Azerbaijani: “Boston”
  • Balinese: “Boston”
  • Bambara: “Boston”
  • Bashkir: “Бостон”
  • Basque: “Boston”
  • Bavarian: “Boston”
  • Belarusian: “Бостан”
  • Bengali: “আধুনিক আমেরিকার ক্রেডল”
  • Bengali: “আমেরিকার এথেন্স”
  • Bengali: “চলমান শহর”
  • Bengali: “দ্য ওয়াকিং সিটি”
  • Bengali: “দ্য ক্রেডল অফ লিবার্টি”
  • Bengali: “দ্য হাব”
  • Bengali: “পিউরিটান শহর”
  • Bengali: “বস্টন”
  • Bengali: “বিনটাউন”
  • Bengali: “বোস্টন”
  • Bengali: “বোস্টোনিয়া”
  • Bengali: “মহাবিশ্বের হাব”
  • Bhojpuri: “एथेंस ऑफ अमेरिका”
  • Bhojpuri: “बोस्टन”
  • Bislama: “Boston, Massachusetts”
  • Bislama: “Boston”
  • Bosnian: “Boston”
  • Breton: “Boston”
  • Bulgarian: “Бостън”
  • Burmese: “ဘော့စတွန်မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Boston (Massachusetts)”
  • Catalan: “Boston”
  • Cebuano: “Boston”
  • Central Kurdish: “بۆستن”
  • Chamorro: “Boston”
  • Chechen: “Бостон”
  • Chinese: “波士頓”
  • Chinese: “波士頓市”
  • Chinese: “波士顿”
  • Chinese: “波士顿市”
  • Chuvash: “Бостон”
  • Cornish: “Boston”
  • Corsican: “Boston”
  • Croatian: “Boston, Massachusetts”
  • Croatian: “Boston”
  • Czech: “Boston”
  • Dagbani: “Boston”
  • Danish: “Boston”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Boston”
  • Dotyali: “बोस्टन”
  • Dutch: “Boston”
  • Eastern Mari: “Бостон”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بوسطون”
  • Emilian: “Boston”
  • Esperanto: “Bostono”
  • Estonian: “Boston”
  • Faroese: “Boston”
  • Fijian: “Boston”
  • Finnish: “Boston”
  • French: “Beantown”
  • French: “Boston”
  • Friulian: “Boston”
  • Galician: “Boston”
  • Gan Chinese: “波士頓”
  • Georgian: “ბოსტონი”
  • German: “Boston”
  • Gilaki: “بؤستؤن (ماساچۊست)”
  • Gilaki: “بؤستؤن”
  • Gothic: “𐌱𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌲𐍃 𐌱𐍉𐍄𐌰𐍅𐌿𐌻𐍆𐌹𐍃”
  • Gothic: “𐌱𐌰𐌿𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌿𐌽”
  • Greek: “Boston”
  • Greek: “Βοστώνη, Μασαχουσέτη”
  • Greek: “Βοστωνη”
  • Greek: “Βοστώνη”
  • Greek: “Η Αθήνα της Αμερικής”
  • Gujarati: “બોસ્ટન”
  • Haitian: “Boston, Massachusetts”
  • Haitian: “Boston”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Boston”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Pô-sṳ-tun”
  • Hausa: “Boston”
  • Hawaiian: “Pokekona”
  • Hebrew: “בוסטון”
  • Hindi: “बोस्टन”
  • Hungarian: “Boston”
  • Icelandic: “Boston”
  • Ido: “Boston”
  • Iloko: “Boston”
  • Inari Sami: “Boston”
  • Indonesian: “Boston”
  • Interlingua: “Boston”
  • Interlingue: “Boston”
  • Inuktitut: “ᐴᔅᑑᓐ”
  • Irish: “Bostún, Massachusetts”
  • Irish: “Bostún”
  • Italian: “Boston”
  • Japanese: “ボストン”
  • Javanese: “Boston”
  • Jèrriais: “Boston”
  • Kabyle: “Boston”
  • Kannada: “ಬಾಸ್ಟನ್”
  • Kannada: “ಬೊಸ್ಟನ್”
  • Kannada: “ಮೆಸಾಚುಸೆಟ್ಸ್ ಪ್ರಾಂತ್ಯದ ರಾಜಧಾನಿ”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Бостон”
  • Kashmiri: “بوسٹن”
  • Kazakh: “Бостон”
  • Kikuyu: “Boston”
  • Kirghiz: “Бостон”
  • Kongo: “Boston”
  • Korean: “보스턴”
  • Korean: “보스톤”
  • Kurdish: “Boston, Massachusetts”
  • Kurdish: “Boston”
  • Ladin: “Boston”
  • Ladino: “Boston”
  • Lao: “ບອສຕັນ”
  • Latin: “Bostonia”
  • Latvian: “Bostona”
  • Ligurian: “Boston”
  • Limburgan: “Boston”
  • Lingala: “Boston”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Boston”
  • Lithuanian: “Bostonas”
  • Lombard: “Boston”
  • Low German: “Boston”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Boston”
  • Luxembourgish: “Boston”
  • Macedonian: “Бостон”
  • Malagasy: “Boston, Massachusetts”
  • Malagasy: “Boston”
  • Malay: “Boston”
  • Malayalam: “ബോസ്റ്റൺ”
  • Maltese: “Boston”
  • Manx: “Boston”
  • Maori: “Boston”
  • Maori: “Pohotone”
  • Marathi: “बॉस्टन”
  • Mazanderani: “بوستون (ماساچوست)”
  • Mazanderani: “بوستون”
  • Mesopotamian Arabic: “بوسطن”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Boston”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Boston”
  • Minangkabau: “Boston”
  • Mingrelian: “ბოსთონი”
  • Mingrelian: “ბოსტონი”
  • Mirandese: “Boston”
  • Mongolian: “Бостон”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “بوسطون”
  • Neapolitan: “Boston”
  • Nepali: “बोस्टन”
  • Newari: “बस्तन”
  • Newari: “बोस्टन”
  • Northern Frisian: “Boston”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Boston”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Boston”
  • Norwegian: “Boston”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Boston”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܒܘܣܛܘܢ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Botwulfstūn on Mæsċūtsitsum”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Botwulfstūn”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Botƿulfstūn”
  • Oromo: “Boston”
  • Ossetian: “Бостон”
  • Pali: “बोस्टन”
  • Pampanga: “Boston, Massachusetts”
  • Pampanga: “Boston”
  • Panjabi: “ਬੌਸਟਨ”
  • Papiamento: “Boston”
  • Persian: “بوستون، ماساچوست”
  • Persian: “بوستون”
  • Picard: “Boston”
  • Piemontese: “Boston”
  • Polish: “Boston”
  • Pontic: “Βοστώνη”
  • Portuguese: “Boston, MA”
  • Portuguese: “Boston”
  • Pushto: “بوسټن”
  • Quechua: “Boston”
  • Romanian: “Boston”
  • Romanian: “Бостон” (historical)
  • Romansh: “Boston”
  • Russian: “Бостон”
  • Samogitian: “Bostons”
  • Sanskrit: “बास्टन्”
  • Sardinian: “Boston”
  • Scots: “Boston”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Boston, Massachusetts”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Boston”
  • Serbian: “Boston”
  • Serbian: “Бостон”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Boston”
  • Sicilian: “Boston”
  • Silesian: “Boston”
  • Sindhi: “بوسٽن”
  • Sinhala: “බොස්ටනය”
  • Sinhala: “බොස්ටන්”
  • Slovak: “Boston”
  • Slovenian: “Beantown”
  • Slovenian: “Boston, Massachusetts”
  • Slovenian: “Boston”
  • Somali: “Boston”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بوستون”
  • Spanish: “Boston (Massachusetts)”
  • Spanish: “Boston”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad Puritana”
  • Spanish: “El Centro del Universo”
  • Spanish: “La Atenas de América”
  • Spanish: “La Ciudad que Camina”
  • Spanish: “La Cuna de la América Moderna”
  • Spanish: “La Cuna de la Libertad”
  • Swahili: “Boston, MA”
  • Swahili: “Boston, Mass.”
  • Swahili: “Boston, Massachusetts”
  • Swahili: “Boston”
  • Swedish: “Boston”
  • Swiss German: “Boston”
  • Tagalog: “Boston”
  • Tajik: “Бостон”
  • Tajik: “Бустун”
  • Talysh: “Boston”
  • Tamil: “பாஸ்டன்”
  • Tatar: “Бостон”
  • Telugu: “బోస్టన్”
  • Thai: “บอสตัน”
  • Tibetan: “བོ་སེ་ཊོན།”
  • Tok Pisin: “Bostan”
  • Turkish: “Boston”
  • Turkmen: “Boston”
  • Twi: “Boston”
  • Udmurt: “Бостон”
  • Uighur: “Boston”
  • Uighur: “بوستون”
  • Ukrainian: “Бостон”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Boston”
  • Urdu: “بوسٹن”
  • Uzbek: “Boston”
  • Venetian: “Boston”
  • Veps: “Boston”
  • Vietnamese: “Ba Sĩ Đốn”
  • Vietnamese: “Ba Sỹ Đốn”
  • Vietnamese: “Beantown”
  • Vietnamese: “Bô-xtơn”
  • Vietnamese: “Boston”
  • Vietnamese: “Bốt-xtơn”
  • Vietnamese: “The Hub”
  • Vlaams: “Boston”
  • Vlax Romani: “Boston”
  • Volapük: “Boston”
  • Walloon: “Boston”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Boston”
  • Welsh: “Boston, Mass.”
  • Welsh: “Boston”
  • Western Armenian: “Պոսթըն”
  • Western Frisian: “Boston”
  • Western Mari: “Бостон”
  • Western Panjabi: “بوسٹن”
  • Wolof: “Boston”
  • Wu Chinese: “波士顿”
  • Yakut: “Бостон”
  • Yiddish: “באסטאן”
  • Yoruba: “Boston”
  • Yue Chinese: “波士頓”
  • Zeeuws: “Boston”
  • Zulu: “Boston”
  • “ma Pasan”
  • “ma Pasen”
  • “ma Poson”
  • “ma tomo Pasan”
  • “ma tomo Pasen”
  • “ma tomo Poson”

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