Dorchester

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  • Type: Suburb with 92,000 residents
  • Description: neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts
  • Also known as: “Dorchester (Boston)”, “Dorchester, Boston”, “Dorchester, Massachusetts”, “Mattapan”, “Neponsitt”, and “Washington Village”
  • Neighbors: and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Four Corners/Geneva station and Talbot Avenue station.

Railway station
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is an MBTA Commuter Rail station in Boston, Massachusetts. It serves the Fairmount Line. It is located in the Mount Bowdoin section of the Dorchester neighborhood.

Railway station
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is an MBTA Commuter Rail station in Boston, Massachusetts. It serves the Fairmount Line. It is located near Codman Square in the Dorchester neighborhood.

Park
is a 5.5-acre neighborhood near Brigham Circle in the Mission Hill neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. It was built as part of the redevelopment of the "ledge site", a former Puddingstone quarry.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ashmont and Savin Hill.

Neighborhood
is a section of the Dorchester neighborhood of , . It includes the subsections of Hill, Peabody Square, and Ashmont-Adams.

Neighborhood
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is a section of Dorchester, the largest neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, . Named after the geographic feature it covers and surrounds, is about one square mile in area, and has a population of about 15,000 people.

Neighborhood
is a historic commercial district in Dorchester, the largest neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts, United States founded in June 1630.

Dorchester

Latitude
42.29732° or 42° 17′ 50″ north
Longitude
-71.0745° or 71° 4′ 28″ west
Population
92,000
Elevation
118 feet (36 metres)
Open location code
87JC7WWG+W6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158853144
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
4934964
Wiki­data ID
Q1024037
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Dorchester” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “دورشستر”
  • Basque: “Dorchester”
  • Catalan: “Dorchester”
  • Cebuano: “Dorchester”
  • Chinese: “多切斯特”
  • Chinese: “多切斯特区”
  • Chinese: “多尔彻斯特”
  • Chinese: “多徹斯特”
  • Chinese: “多爾切斯特”
  • Chinese: “波士頓多切斯特”
  • Czech: “Dorchester”
  • Danish: “Dorchester”
  • Dutch: “Dorchester”
  • Esperanto: “Dorchester”
  • Faroese: “Dorchester”
  • Finnish: “Dorchester”
  • French: “Dorchester”
  • German: “Dorchester”
  • Greek: “Ντόρτσεστερ”
  • Hebrew: “דורצ’סטר”
  • Irish: “Dorchester”
  • Italian: “Dorchester”
  • Japanese: “ドーチェスター (ボストン)”
  • Japanese: “ドーチェスター (マサチューセッツ州)”
  • Kalaallisut: “Dorchester”
  • Luxembourgish: “Dorchester”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Dorchester”
  • Persian: “دورچستر، بوستون”
  • Persian: “دورچستر”
  • Polish: “Dorchester”
  • Portuguese: “Dorchester”
  • Russian: “Дорчестер”
  • Slovak: “Dorchester”
  • Slovenian: “Dorchester”
  • South Azerbaijani: “دورچزتر، بوزتون”
  • Spanish: “Dorchester”
  • Swedish: “Dorchester, Massachusetts”
  • Swedish: “Dorchester”
  • Turkish: “Dorchester”
  • Urdu: “ڈورچیسٹر، بوسٹن”
  • Welsh: “Dorchester”
  • Western Frisian: “Dorchester”
  • “Dorchester”

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