Massachusetts
Essex
City of Lynn

Lynn

Lynn is the eighth-largest municipality in Massachusetts, United States, and the largest city in . Situated on the Atlantic Ocean, 3.7 miles north of the city line at Suffolk Downs, Lynn is part of 's urban inner core and is a major economic and cultural center of the .
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  • Type: City with 90,300 residents
  • Description: city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States
  • Also known as: “Lyn”, “Lynn, MA”, “Lynn, Massachusetts”, and “Saugus”
  • Postal codes: 01901-01905 and 01910
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Lynn Public Library and Lynn Heritage State Park.

Library
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The building is a historic library at Five North Common Street in Lynn, Massachusetts. Although library services were offered in Lynn as early 1815, it was not until a bequest in 1896 that the city began planning a permanent home for the growing collection.

Park
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is a history-themed state park in downtown Lynn, Massachusetts, and is part of the Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston.

Railway station
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is an intermodal transit station in downtown Lynn, Massachusetts. It is a station on the MBTA Commuter Rail Newburyport/Rockport Line and a hub for the MBTA bus system.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Swampscott and Central Square Historic District.

Town
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is a town in , United States, located 15 miles up the coast from in an area known as the . The population was 15,111 as of the 2020 United States census.

Neighborhood
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The is a historic district encompassing the Central Square area of downtown Lynn, Massachusetts. The area is at the confluence of a number of city streets, and includes buildings that border on Central Avenue, Willow Street, Munroe Street, Lake Street, Almont Street.

Lynn

Latitude
42.4668° or 42° 28′ 0″ north
Longitude
-70.9495° or 70° 56′ 58″ west
Population
90,300
Elevation
39 feet (12 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US LZN
Open location code
87JFF382+P6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158822289
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4942807
Wiki­data ID
Q49188
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Lynn” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “لين”
  • Armenian: “Լինն”
  • Asturian: “Lynn, Massachusetts”
  • Asturian: “Lynn”
  • Basque: “Lynn”
  • Bulgarian: “Lynn”
  • Bulgarian: “Лин”
  • Catalan: “Lynn”
  • Cebuano: “Lynn”
  • Central Kurdish: “لین”
  • Chechen: “Линн”
  • Chinese: “Lynn”
  • Chinese: “林恩”
  • Czech: “Lynn”
  • Dagbani: “Lynn”
  • Danish: “Lynn”
  • Dutch: “Lynn”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “لين”
  • French: “Lynn”
  • Georgian: “ლინი”
  • German: “Lynn”
  • Gilaki: “لين”
  • Greek: “Λιν”
  • Haitian: “Lynn, Massachusetts”
  • Haitian: “Lynn”
  • Hebrew: “לין”
  • Hungarian: “Lynn”
  • Irish: “Lynn”
  • Italian: “Lynn”
  • Japanese: “リン”
  • Kazakh: “Линн”
  • Kirghiz: “Линн”
  • Korean: “린”
  • Ladin: “Lynn”
  • Latin: “Lynn”
  • Luxembourgish: “Lynn”
  • Malagasy: “Lynn, Massachusetts”
  • Malagasy: “Lynn”
  • Mazanderani: “لینن”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Lynn”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lynn”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lynn”
  • Norwegian: “Lynn”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Lynn”
  • Persian: “لینن، ماساچوست”
  • Persian: “لینن”
  • Polish: “Lynn”
  • Portuguese: “Lynn”
  • Russian: “Линн”
  • Serbian: “Лин”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Lynn, Massachusetts”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Lynn”
  • Silesian: “Lynn”
  • Slovak: “Lynn”
  • Slovenian: “Lynn”
  • South Azerbaijani: “لینن، ماساچوست”
  • Spanish: “Lynn (Massachusetts)”
  • Spanish: “Lynn”
  • Swahili: “Lynn, Massachusetts”
  • Swahili: “Lynn”
  • Swedish: “Lynn, Massachusetts”
  • Swedish: “Lynn”
  • Talysh: “Linn”
  • Tatar: “Линн (Массачусетс)”
  • Tatar: “Линн”
  • Turkish: “Lynn, Massachusetts”
  • Turkish: “Lynn”
  • Ukrainian: “Лінн”
  • Urdu: “لین، میساچوسٹس”
  • Urdu: “لین”
  • Uzbek: “Lynn”
  • Vietnamese: “Lynn, Massachusetts”
  • Vietnamese: “Lynn”
  • Volapük: “Lynn”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Lynn, Massachusetts”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Lynn”
  • Welsh: “Lynn, Massachusetts”
  • Welsh: “Lynn”

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