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Massachusetts is a state in the 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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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Boston and Cambridge.

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A city of history and tradition, offers a proud legacy of culture, education, and numerous sporting championships. The "shining city on a hill"s independent spirit has been displayed to the world ever since colonists were angry over a British tax on their beloved tea and dumped shiploads of it into the harbor in protest.

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is a city in Massachusetts, 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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is the largest city on the Connecticut River, in the of Massachusetts, . It sits 24 miles north of , , and 5 miles north of the Connecticut state line.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Eastern Massachusetts and Cape Cod.

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One of the most populous areas in the United States, is anchored by the city of Boston and home to some 4.5 million people. Comprised of five Massachusetts counties, visitors will discover many sites significant to the American Revolution, literature, and politics.

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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.

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The is the region around the Connecticut River valley in Western Massachusetts. It is a very diverse travel destination, featuring urban, college town, and natural areas in close proximity.

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, also referred to as Central Mass. is a region in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, in the . It encompasses part of the Blackstone Valley National Corridor in the southern part of the region.

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The are in Berkshire County at the western end of Massachusetts. They are actually three separate mountain ranges, separated by the valleys of the Housatonic River in the south and the Hoosic River in the north.

Massachusetts

Latitude of center
42.3789° or 42° 22′ 44″ north
Longitude of center
-72.0324° or 72° 1′ 57″ west
Population
7,140,000
Elevation
20 feet (6 metres)
Abbreviation
“mass”
Abbreviation
“MA”
Open­Street­Map ID
node 316965734
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
6254926
Wiki­data ID
Q771
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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: “Massachusetts”
  • 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: “MA”
  • Dutch: “Massachusetts”
  • Eastern Mari: “Массачусетс”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ماساتشوستس”
  • Esperanto: “Golfa Ŝtato”
  • Esperanto: “Komunumo de Masaĉuseco”
  • Esperanto: “la sesa ŝtato”
  • Esperanto: “MA”
  • 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”
  • 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”
  • 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: “MA”
  • 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”
  • 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”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ماساچوست ایالتی”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ماساچوست”
  • Spanish: “Estado de la Bahía”
  • Spanish: “Estado de Massachusetts”
  • Spanish: “MA”
  • 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: “MA”
  • Turkish: “Mass.”
  • Turkish: “Massachusetts eyaleti”
  • Turkish: “Massachusetts, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri”
  • Turkish: “Massachusetts”
  • Turkish: “State of Massachusetts”
  • Turkish: “US-MA”
  • 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: “麻省”
  • Zeeuws: “Massachusetts”
  • Zhuang: “Massachusetts”
  • Zulu: “Massachusetts”
  • “ma Masasusi”
  • “Masačusetsos”
  • “Massachusetts”
  • “US-MA”
  • “मैसाचुसेट्स”

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