Hingham
Hingham is a coastal town in the South Shore region of Massachusetts about 15 miles south of Boston.
- Type: Town with 21,800 residents
- Description: town in Massachusetts, United States
- Also known as: “Bear Cove”, “Conihasset”, “Hingham MA”, “Hingham Massachusetts”, “Hingham, MA”, and “Hingham, Massachusetts”
- Postal codes: 02043 and 02044
Places of Interest
Highlights include West Hingham station and Button Island.
West Hingham station
Railway station
Photo: Pottewa, Public domain.Button Island
Islet
Button Island is a small island in the Hingham Bay area of Boston Harbor Islands National and State Park. The island has a permanent size of under 1 acre.
Nantasket Junction station
Railway station
Photo: Pottewa, Public domain.Hingham
- Categories: town in the United States and locality
- Location: Town of Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
42.2418° or 42° 14′ 30″ north
Longitude
-70.8898° or 70° 53′ 23″ west
Population
21,800
Elevation
16 feet (5 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US HGM
Open location code
87JF64R6+P3
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Hingham” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “هينغهام”
- Basque: “Hingham”
- Belarusian: “Хінгем”
- Catalan: “Hingham”
- Cebuano: “Hingham”
- Chechen: “Гингем”
- Chinese: “欣厄姆 (马萨诸塞州)”
- Chinese: “欣厄姆（马萨诸塞州）”
- Chinese: “欣厄姆”
- Chinese: “興咸”
- Chinese: “興漢姆”
- Chinese: “興鹹 (麻薩諸塞州)”
- Czech: “Hingham”
- Dagbani: “Hingham”
- Dutch: “Hingham”
- Egyptian Arabic: “هينجهام”
- French: “Hingham”
- Galician: “Hingham, MA”
- Galician: “Hingham, Massachusetts”
- Georgian: “ჰინგემი”
- German: “Hingham”
- Haitian: “Hingham, Massachusetts”
- Haitian: “Hingham”
- Hebrew: “הינגהאם”
- Hungarian: “Hingham”
- Italian: “Hingham”
- Japanese: “ヒンガム”
- Japanese: “ヒングハム”
- Kazakh: “Xïnxam”
- Kazakh: “Хинхам”
- Kazakh: “حىينحام”
- Kirghiz: “Хинхам”
- Mazanderani: “هینگهام (ماساچوست)”
- Mazanderani: “هینگهام”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hingham”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hingham”
- Norwegian: “Hingham”
- Persian: “هینگهام، ماساچوست”
- Persian: “هینگهام”
- Polish: “Hingham”
- Portuguese: “Hingham”
- Russian: “Хингем”
- Russian: “Хингхам”
- Serbian: “Хингам”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Hingham, Massachusetts”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Hingham”
- Slovak: “Hingham”
- Slovenian: “Hingham”
- South Azerbaijani: “هینقام، ماساچوست”
- Spanish: “Hingham, Massachusetts”
- Spanish: “Hingham”
- Swahili: “Hingham, Massachusetts”
- Swahili: “Hingham”
- Swedish: “Hingham, Massachusetts”
- Swedish: “Hingham”
- Tatar: “Гингем”
- Tatar: “Һиңгем”
- Turkish: “Hingham, Massachusetts”
- Turkish: “Hingham”
- Ukrainian: “Гінгем”
- Urdu: “ہنگھم، میساچوسٹس”
- Volapük: “Hingham”
- Welsh: “Hingham, Massachusetts”
- Welsh: “Hingham”
- “Hingham”
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