Massachusetts
Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the United States of America. Massachusetts is known as "The Bay State" because of its three large bays which dominate and shape the coastline, which have always attracted travelers beginning with the Pilgrims and continuing to this day.
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Cape Cod
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Berkshires
The Berkshires are in Berkshire County at the western end of Massachusetts.
Massachusetts
- State with 7,140,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 20 feet (6 metres)
- Description: state of the United States of America
- Also known as“6th State”“Bay State”“Commonwealth of MA”“Commonwealth of Massachusetts”“Mass.”“Massachusetts (U.S. state)”“Massachusetts state”“Massachusetts, United States”“State of Massachusetts”“Taxachusetts”“The Bay State”“The Commonwealth of Massachusetts”
- Abbreviations“MA”“mass”
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Latitude of center
42.3789° or 42° 22′ 44″ north
Longitude of center
-72.0324° or 72° 1′ 57″ west
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Massachusetts” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Massachusetts”
- Albanian: “Masaçusec”
- Albanian: “Massachusetts”
- Amharic: “ማሣቹሰትስ”
- Arabic: “ماساتشوست”
- Arabic: “ماساتشوستس”
- Aragonese: “Massachusetts”
- Armenian: “Մասաչուսեթս”
- Arpitan: “Massachusetts”
- Asturian: “Massachusetts”
- Aymara: “Massachusetts suyu”
- Azerbaijani: “Massaçusets”
- Balinese: “Massachusetts”
- Bashkir: “Массачусетс”
- Basque: “Massachusetts”
- Bavarian: “Massachusetts”
- Belarusian: “Масачусетс”
- Belarusian: “Масачусэтс”
- Bengali: “ম্যাসাচুসেটস”
- Bhojpuri: “मैसाचुसेट्स”
- Bhojpuri: “म्यासेच्युसेट्स”
- Bishnupriya: “ম্যাসাচুসেট্স”
- Bislama: “Masajuset”
- Bislama: “Massachusetts”
- Bosnian: “Massachusetts”
- Breton: “Massachusetts”
- Bulgarian: “Масачузетс”
- Burmese: “မက်ဆာချူးဆက်ပြည်နယ်”
- Catalan: “Massachusetts”
- Cebuano: “Massachusetts”
- Central Bikol: “Massachusetts”
- Central Kurdish: “ماساچووسیتس”
- Central Kurdish: “ماساچووسێتس”
- Chavacano: “Massachusetts”
- Chechen: “Массачусетс”
- Cherokee: “ᎺᏌᏧᏎᏗ”
- Chinese: “馬省”
- Chinese: “馬薩諸塞州”
- Chinese: “馬薩諸塞聯邦”
- Chinese: “马省”
- Chinese: “马萨诸塞州”
- Chinese: “马萨诸塞联邦”
- Chinese: “麻州”
- Chinese: “麻沙朱色士州”
- Chinese: “麻沙朱色士省”
- Chinese: “麻省”
- Chinese: “麻萨诸塞州”
- Chinese: “麻薩諸塞州”
- Church Slavic: “Масачоусєтсъ”
- Chuvash: “Массачусетс”
- Cornish: “Massachusetts”
- Corsican: “Massachusetts”
- Crimean Tatar: “Massaçusets”
- Croatian: “Massachusetts”
- Czech: “Commonwealth of Massachusetts”
- Czech: “Massachusetts”
- Dagbani: “Massachusetts”
- Danish: “Massachusetts”
- Dimli (individual language): “Massachusetts”
- Dutch: “Massachusetts”
- Eastern Mari: “Массачусетс”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ماساتشوستس”
- Emilian: “Massachusetts”
- Esperanto: “Golfa Ŝtato”
- Esperanto: “Komunumo de Masaĉuseco”
- Esperanto: “la sesa ŝtato”
- Esperanto: “Masaĉuseco”
- Estonian: “Massachusetts”
- Ewe: “Massachusetts”
- Faroese: “Massachusetts”
- Fiji Hindi: “Massachusetts”
- Fijian: “Massachusetts”
- Finnish: “Massachusetts”
- French: “Massachusetts”
- Gagauz: “Massachusetts”
- Galician: “Massachusetts”
- Georgian: “მასაჩუსეტსი”
- German: “Massachusetts”
- Gothic: “𐌼𐌰𐌹𐍃𐌰𐌹𐍄𐍃𐌹𐌿𐍃𐌰𐌹𐍄𐍃”
- Greek: “Μασαχουσέτη”
- Guarani: “Massachusetts”
- Gujarati: “મેસેચ્યુસેટ્સ”
- Haitian: “Masachosèt”
- Hakka Chinese: “Massachusetts”
- Hausa: “Massachusetts”
- Hawaiian: “Makakukeka”
- Hebrew: “מאסצ’וסטס”
- Hebrew: “מדינת מסצ’וסטס”
- Hebrew: “מסאצ’וסטס”
- Hebrew: “מסצ’וסטס”
- Hindi: “मैसाचुसेट्स”
- Hindi: “मैसाचूसिट्स”
- Hungarian: “Massachusetts”
- Icelandic: “Massachusetts”
- Ido: “Massachusetts”
- Igbo: “Másáchusẹts”
- Iloko: “Massachusetts”
- Inari Sami: “Massachusetts”
- Indonesian: “Massachusetts”
- Interlingua: “Massachusetts”
- Interlingue: “Massachusetts”
- Inuktitut: “ᒫᓵᓲᓰᑦᔅ”
- Inupiaq: “Masitchusat”
- Inupiaq: “Massachusetts”
- Irish: “Massachusetts”
- Italian: “Commonwealth del Massachusetts”
- Italian: “Massachusetts”
- Japanese: “マサチューセッツ州”
- Javanese: “Massachusetts”
- Kabiyè: “Masacusɛtɩsɩ”
- Kalmyk: “Масачуусиц”
- Kannada: “ಮ್ಯಾಸಚೂಸೆಟ್ಸ್”
- Karachay-Balkar: “Массачусетс”
- Kashmiri: “میساچوٗسیٹس”
- Kazakh: “Массачусетс”
- Kirghiz: “Массачусетс”
- Korean: “마싸츄세쯔주”
- Korean: “매사추세츠”
- Korean: “매사추세츠주”
- Kurdish: “Massachusetts”
- Ladin: “Massachusetts”
- Ladino: “Massachusetts”
- Lao: “ລັດແມສຊາຊູເຊຕສ໌”
- Latin: “Massachusetta”
- Latvian: “Masačūsetsa”
- Latvian: “Masačūsetsas štats”
- Ligurian: “Massachusetts”
- Limburgan: “Massachusetts”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Massachusetts”
- Literary Chinese: “馬薩諸塞州”
- Literary Chinese: “麻薩諸塞州”
- Lithuanian: “Masačusetsas”
- Lombard: “Massachusetts”
- Low German: “Massachusetts”
- Luxembourgish: “Massachusetts”
- Macedonian: “Масачусетс”
- Maithili: “म्यासेचुसेट्स”
- Malagasy: “Massachusetts”
- Malay: “Massachusetts”
- Malayalam: “മസാച്യുസെറ്റ്സ്”
- Manipuri: “ꯃꯥꯁꯁꯥꯆꯨꯁꯦꯠꯠ꯭ꯁ”
- Manx: “Massachusetts”
- Maori: “Mahakureta”
- Maori: “Massachusetts”
- Marathi: “मॅसेच्युसेट्स”
- Mazanderani: “ماساچوست”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Massachusetts”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Massachusetts”
- Mingrelian: “მასაჩუსეთსი”
- Mingrelian: “მასაჩუსეტსი”
- Mongolian: “Массачусеттс”
- Moroccan Arabic: “ماساشوسيتس”
- Nauru: “Massachusetts”
- Navajo: “Méésíchóoshish Hahoodzo”
- Nepali: “म्यासेचुसेट्स”
- Newari: “म्यासेच्युसेट्स”
- Newari: “म्यासेच्युसेत्स”
- Northern Frisian: “Massachusetts”
- Northern Luri: “ماساچوسئت”
- Northern Sami: “Massachusetts”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mass.”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Massachusetts”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Massachusetts”
- Norwegian: “Massachusetts”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Massachusetts”
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܡܐܣܐܬܫܘܣܬܣ”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Mæseċūland”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Mæseċūlond”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Massachusetts”
- Oromo: “Massachusetts”
- Ossetian: “Массачусетс”
- Pali: “म्यासेच्युसेट्स”
- Pampanga: “Massachusetts”
- Panjabi: “ਮੈਸਾਚੂਸਟਸ”
- Papiamento: “Massachusetts”
- Persian: “ماساچوست”
- Picard: “Massachusetts”
- Piemontese: “Massachusetts”
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Massachusetts”
- Polish: “Massachusetts”
- Portuguese: “Massachusetts”
- Pushto: “ماساچوست”
- Quechua: “Massachusetts suyu”
- Romanian: “Massachusetts”
- Romansh: “Massachusetts”
- Russia Buriat: “Массачусетс”
- Russian: “Массачусетс”
- Rusyn: “Массачузетс”
- Samogitian: “Masačusetsos”
- Sanskrit: “मासचुसेट्स”
- Sardinian: “Massachusetts”
- Saterfriesisch: “Massachusetts”
- Scots: “Massachusetts”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Massachusetts”
- Serbian: “Масачусетс”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Massachusetts”
- Sicilian: “Massachusetts”
- Silesian: “Massachusetts”
- Sindhi: “مئساچوسٽس”
- Sindhi: “مئسچوسٽس”
- Sinhala: “මැසචුසෙට්ස්”
- Slovak: “Massachusetts”
- Slovenian: “Massachusetts”
- Somali: “Massachusetts”
- South Azerbaijani: “ماساچوست ایالتی”
- South Azerbaijani: “ماساچوست”
- Spanish: “Estado de la Bahía”
- Spanish: “Estado de Massachusetts”
- Spanish: “Mancomunidad de Massachusetts”
- Spanish: “Massachusetts, Estados Unidos”
- Spanish: “Massachusetts”
- Swahili: “Massachusetts”
- Swedish: “Massachusetts”
- Tagalog: “Massachusetts”
- Tajik: “Массачусетс”
- Talysh: “Massacusets”
- Tamil: “மாசச்சூசெட்ஸ்”
- Tamil: “மாசாச்சூசெட்ட்ஸ்”
- Tatar: “Массачусетс”
- Telugu: “మాసెచూసెట్స్”
- Thai: “รัฐแมสซาชูเซตส์”
- Tumbuka: “Massachusetts”
- Turkish: “Mass.”
- Turkish: “Massachusetts eyaleti”
- Turkish: “Massachusetts, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri”
- Turkish: “Massachusetts”
- Turkish: “State of Massachusetts”
- Uighur: “Massachuséts Shitati”
- Ukrainian: “Массачусетс”
- Urdu: “میساچوسٹس”
- Uzbek: “Massachusets”
- Uzbek: “Massachusetts”
- Venetian: “Massachusetts”
- Vietnamese: “Massachusetts”
- Vlaams: “Massachusetts”
- Vlax Romani: “Massachusetts”
- Volapük: “Massachusetts”
- Waray (Philippines): “Massachusetts”
- Welsh: “Massachusetts”
- Western Armenian: “Մասաչուսեց”
- Western Armenian: “Մասսաչուսէթս”
- Western Frisian: “Massachusetts”
- Western Mari: “Массачусетс”
- Western Panjabi: “میساچیوسٹس”
- Wu Chinese: “马萨诸塞”
- Wu Chinese: “马萨诸塞州”
- Xhosa: “IMasetshusethi”
- Yakut: “Массачусетс”
- Yakut: “Массачусеттс”
- Yiddish: “מאסאטשוסעטס”
- Yoruba: “Massachusetts”
- Yue Chinese: “麻沙朱色士省”
- Yue Chinese: “麻省”
- Zeeuws: “Massachusetts”
- Zhuang: “Massachusetts”
- Zulu: “Massachusetts”
- “MA”
- “ma Masasusi”
- “US-MA”
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