Massachusetts
Middlesex
City of Cambridge

Cambridge

Cambridge is a city in , across the Charles River from . It is renowned as the home of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, both widely considered to be among the best universities in the world.
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  • Type: City with 118,000 residents
  • Description: city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States of America
  • Also known as: “Cambridge, MA”, “Cambridge, Mass.”, “Cambridge, Massachusetts”, “Mishawum”, “New Town”, “New Towne”, “Newtown”, “Newtowne”, and “Old Cambridge”
  • Postal codes: 02138-02142 and 02238
  • Neighbors: , , and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Art Museums.

University
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The John F. Kennedy School of Government, commonly referred to as , is the school of public policy of Harvard University, a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Museum
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The are part of Harvard University and comprise three museums: the Fogg Museum, the Busch-Reisinger Museum, and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, and four research centers: the Archaeological Exploration of Sardis, the Center for the Technical Study of Modern Art, the Archives, and the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies.

Museum
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The is a museum affiliated with Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1866, the Peabody Museum is one of the oldest and largest museums focusing on anthropological material, with particular focus on the ethnography and archaeology of the Americas.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Fenway-Kenmore and Somerville.

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The neighborhood is named after Kenmore Square, and after the Fens, both of which it encompasses. Kenmore Square is the area's dynamic urban center.

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Older Bostonians might still derisively call it "Slummerville", but today that tired old moniker couldn't be further from the truth. Packed with upwardly mobile professionals and longtime residents, is often voted an "All-America City" and the best-run city in .

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Historical heavyweights, Back Bay and Beacon Hill are some of 's most beautiful neighborhoods. With narrow, gas-lit streets and scores of architecturally significant buildings, these distinctly different neighborhoods will make up the core of almost any visitor's itinerary.

Cambridge

Latitude
42.3656° or 42° 21′ 56″ north
Longitude
-71.104° or 71° 6′ 14″ west
Population
118,000
Elevation
16 feet (5 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US JHY
Open location code
87JC9V8W+79
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158842525
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4931972
Wiki­data ID
Q49111
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Cambridge” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Cambridge, Massachusetts”
  • Afrikaans: “Cambridge”
  • Arabic: “كامبريدج”
  • Armenian: “Քեմբրիջ”
  • Asturian: “Cambridge”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kembric”
  • Basque: “Cambridge”
  • Belarusian: “Кембрыдж (Масачусетс)”
  • Belarusian: “Кембрыдж, Масачусетс”
  • Belarusian: “Кембрыдж”
  • Bengali: “কেমব্রিজ, ম্যাসাচুসেটস”
  • Bengali: “কেমব্রিজ”
  • Bosnian: “Cambridge”
  • Breton: “Cambridge”
  • Bulgarian: “Кеймбридж”
  • Catalan: “Cambridge”
  • Cebuano: “Cambridge”
  • Central Kurdish: “کامبریج، ماساچووسیتس”
  • Central Kurdish: “کامبریج”
  • Chechen: “Кембридж”
  • Chinese: “Cambridge”
  • Chinese: “剑桥”
  • Chinese: “劍橋”
  • Chinese: “坎布里奇”
  • Cornish: “Cambridge, Massachusetts”
  • Cornish: “Cambridge”
  • Croatian: “Cambridge, Massachusetts”
  • Croatian: “Cambridge”
  • Czech: “Cambridge”
  • Danish: “Cambridge”
  • Dutch: “Cambridge”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كامبريدج، ماساتشوستس”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كامبريدج”
  • Esperanto: “Cambridge, Massachusetts”
  • Esperanto: “Cambridge”
  • Esperanto: “Kembriĝo”
  • Estonian: “Cambridge”
  • Finnish: “Cambridge”
  • French: “Cambridge”
  • Galician: “Cambridge, Massachusetts”
  • Galician: “Cambridge”
  • Georgian: “კემბრიჯი”
  • German: “Cambridge, Massachusetts”
  • German: “Cambridge”
  • Gilaki: “کمبريج (ماساچۊست)”
  • Gilaki: “کمبريج”
  • Greek: “Κέιμπριτζ”
  • Haitian: “Cambridge, Massachusetts”
  • Haitian: “Cambridge”
  • Hebrew: “קיימברידג‘”
  • Hebrew: “קיימברידג’”
  • Hungarian: “Cambridge”
  • Ido: “Cambridge, Massachusetts”
  • Ido: “Cambridge”
  • Indonesian: “Cambridge, Massachusetts”
  • Indonesian: “Cambridge”
  • Irish: “Cambridge, Massachusetts”
  • Irish: “Cambridge”
  • Italian: “Cambridge”
  • Japanese: “ケンブリッジ”
  • Javanese: “Cambridge, Massachusetts”
  • Javanese: “Cambridge”
  • Kashmiri: “کیمبرِج”
  • Kazakh: “Кэмбридж”
  • Kirghiz: “Кембриж”
  • Kirghiz: “Кэмбридж”
  • Korean: “케임브리지”
  • Ladin: “Cambridge”
  • Latin: “Cantabrigia Massachusettensium”
  • Latin: “Cantabrigia Novanglorum”
  • Latin: “Cantabrigia”
  • Latvian: “Keimbridža”
  • Lithuanian: “Kembridžas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Cambridge”
  • Macedonian: “Кембриџ”
  • Malay: “Cambridge, Massachusetts”
  • Malay: “Cambridge”
  • Maltese: “Cambridge”
  • Manx: “Cambridge”
  • Marathi: “केंब्रिज”
  • Mazanderani: “کمبریج (ماساچوست)”
  • Mazanderani: “کمبریج”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Cambridge”
  • Northern Frisian: “Cambridge”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Cambridge”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cambridge i Massachusetts”
  • Norwegian: “Cambridge”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Cambridge”
  • Ossetian: “Кембридж”
  • Papiamento: “Cambridge”
  • Persian: “کمبریج، ماساچوست”
  • Persian: “کمبریج”
  • Piemontese: “Cambridge”
  • Polish: “Cambridge”
  • Portuguese: “Cambridge”
  • Romanian: “Cambridge, Massachusetts”
  • Romanian: “Cambridge”
  • Russian: “Кеймбридж”
  • Russian: “Кембридж (Массачусетс)”
  • Russian: “Кембридж”
  • Scots: “Cambridge”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Cambridge, Massachusetts”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Cambridge”
  • Serbian: “Кембриџ”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Cambridge, Massachusetts”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Cambridge”
  • Sicilian: “Cambridge, USA”
  • Sicilian: “Cambridge”
  • Silesian: “Cambridge”
  • Slovak: “Cambridge”
  • Slovenian: “Cambridge, Massachusetts”
  • Slovenian: “Cambridge”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کمبریج، ماساچوست”
  • Spanish: “Cambridge (Massachusetts)”
  • Spanish: “Cambridge”
  • Swahili: “Cambridge, Massachusetts”
  • Swahili: “Cambridge”
  • Swedish: “Cambridge, Massachusetts”
  • Swedish: “Cambridge”
  • Tagalog: “Cambridge, Massachusetts”
  • Tagalog: “Cambridge”
  • Tajik: “Кембриҷ”
  • Tamil: “கேம்பிரிஜ், மாசசூசெட்ஸ்”
  • Tamil: “கேம்பிரிஜ்”
  • Tatar: “Кембриҗ”
  • Telugu: “కేంబ్రిడ్జ్”
  • Thai: “เคมบริดจ์”
  • Turkish: “Cambridge, Massachusetts”
  • Turkish: “Cambridge”
  • Ukrainian: “Кембридж”
  • Urdu: “کیمبرج، میساچوسٹس”
  • Urdu: “کیمبرج”
  • Uzbek: “Cambridge”
  • Venetian: “Cambridge”
  • Vietnamese: “Cambridge, Massachusetts”
  • Vietnamese: “Cambridge”
  • Volapük: “Cambridge”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Cambridge, Massachusetts”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Cambridge”
  • Welsh: “Cambridge, Massachusetts”
  • Welsh: “Cambridge”
  • Wu Chinese: “剑桥 (马萨诸塞州)”
  • Wu Chinese: “剑桥（马萨诸塞州）”
  • Wu Chinese: “剑桥”
  • Yakut: “Кембридж (Массачусетс)”
  • Yakut: “Кембридж”
  • Yiddish: “קעמברידזש, מאסאטשוסעטס”
  • Yiddish: “קעמברידזש”
  • Yue Chinese: “劍橋”
  • “Cambridge”
  • “ma tomo Kenpisi”

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