Cape Cod
Cape Cod is an arm-shaped peninsula on the easternmost portion of Massachusetts. It is a well-traveled tourist and vacation area, featuring miles and miles of beaches, natural attractions, historic sites, art galleries and many four-star restaurants.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Nantucket and Barnstable.
Nantucket
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Nantucket is an island and town 30 mi off the coast of Cape Cod and part of Massachusetts. The island offers quiet harbors, dramatic cliffs, sandy beaches, lighthouses, beautiful old mansions and gardens, interesting history – even a series of limericks about its residents.
Barnstable
Barnstable is in Massachusetts on Cape Cod. The Town of Barnstable includes seven villages. Each village has unique and significant cultural and historical qualities.
Edgartown
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Edgartown is a town on the island of Martha's Vineyard. Edgartown is a picturesque village of stately buildings surrounded by natural beauty. It is the county seat. Edgartown also includes Chappaquiddick Island.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Martha’s Vineyard and Upper Cape.
Martha’s Vineyard
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Martha's Vineyard is an island 8 miles off the Cape Cod peninsula in Massachusetts. Once a whaling center, it has become a vacation hotspot and a favorite summertime haven of many celebrities.
Lower Cape
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The Lower Cape is the area of Cape Cod at the "elbow" of the arm-shaped peninsula.
Cape Cod National Seashore
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Cape Cod National Seashore is a national seashore in the state of Massachusetts in the United States of America.
Gosnold
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Gosnold is a town in Massachusetts off of Cape Cod encompassing the nine Elizabeth Islands, including Cuttyhunk Island, Naushon Island, Pasque Island, Nashawena Island and some adjacent smaller islands that stretch out from Woods Hole village of Falmouth.
Cape Cod
- Type: Cape
- Description: peninsula in Massachusetts, United States
- Also known as: “Cap Cod”, “Cap Codd”, “Cape Cod (Mass.)”, “Cape Cod, MA”, “Cape Cod, Massachusetts”, “Cape Codd”, “Cape Iames”, “Cape Malabar”, “Cape-Codd”, “Capo Cod”, “Cod, Cape”, “Malabarre”, “Staten Hoeck”, and “Witte Hoeck”
- Category: peninsula
- Location: Town of Yarmouth, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
Discover Cape Cod from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Ukrainian—“Cape Cod” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Cape Cod”
- Arabic: “رأس القد”
- Azerbaijani: “Keyp Kod yarımadası”
- Basque: “Cod lurmuturra”
- Belarusian: “Кейп-Код”
- Belarusian: “Паўвостраў Кейп-Код”
- Bulgarian: “Кейп Код”
- Catalan: “Cap Cod”
- Cebuano: “Cape Cod”
- Chinese: “科德角”
- Czech: “Cape Cod”
- Czech: “mys Cod”
- Danish: “Cape Cod”
- Dutch: “Cape Cod”
- Esperanto: “Kabo Cod”
- Estonian: “Cape Cod”
- Finnish: “Cape Cod”
- French: “cap Cod”
- French: “Cap Cod”
- French: “Cape Cod”
- Galician: “Cabo Cod”
- German: “Cape Cod”
- Greek: “Ακρωτήριο Κοντ”
- Greek: “Κέιπ Κοντ”
- Hebrew: “קייפ קוד”
- Hungarian: “Cape Cod”
- Icelandic: “Þorskhöfði”
- Irish: “Cape Cod”
- Italian: “Cape Cod”
- Italian: “Capo Cod”
- Japanese: “ケープコッド”
- Korean: “케이프코드”
- Korean: “코드곶”
- Lithuanian: “Keip Kodas”
- Macedonian: “Кејп Код”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Cape Cod”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cape Cod”
- Norwegian: “Cape Cod”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Cap Cod”
- Ossetian: “Кейп-Код”
- Persian: “دماغه کاد”
- Polish: “Cape Cod”
- Portuguese: “Cabo Cod”
- Romanian: “Cape Cod”
- Russian: “Кейп-Код”
- Scots: “Cape Cod”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Cod”
- Slovak: “Cape Cod”
- Slovenian: “Cape Cod”
- Spanish: “Cabo Cod”
- Swedish: “Cape Cod”
- Thai: “เคปค้อด”
- Turkish: “Cod Burnu”
- Ukrainian: “Кейп-Код”
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