Plymouth
Plymouth is on the South Shore of Massachusetts. Known as "America's Hometown," Plymouth is most famous for being the final landing place of the Pilgrims who arrived on board the Mayflower in 1620, after storms lead them away from their desired settlement, the Hudson River.Photo: Raime, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Swampyank, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: City with 61,200 residents
- Description: county seat town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States
- Also known as: “Accomack”, “New Plimouth”, “Patuxit”, “Plimoth”, “Plimoth Plantation”, “Plimouth”, “Plymouth, MA”, “Plymouth, Massachusetts”, and “Port Saint-Louis”
- Postal codes: 02360-02362
Places of Interest
Highlights include Pilgrim Hall Museum and Plymouth Rock.
Pilgrim Hall Museum
Museum
The Pilgrim Hall Museum at 75 Court Street in Plymouth, Massachusetts is the oldest public museum in the United States in continuous operation, having opened in 1824.
Plymouth Rock
Memorial
Plimoth Grist Mill
Museum
The Plimoth Grist Mill is a working grist mill located in Plymouth, Massachusetts. It is a reconstruction of the original Jenney Grist Mill, and it stands on the site of the original mill.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include North Plymouth and Plymouth Village Historic District.
North Plymouth
Village
Photo: Raime, CC BY-SA 3.0.
North Plymouth is a census-designated place in the town of Plymouth in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States. As of the 2020 census, North Plymouth had a population of 3,983.
Plymouth Village Historic District
Neighborhood
Photo: Historical Perspective, Public domain.
The Plymouth Village Historic District is a historic district encompassing part of the area of earliest settlement of the Plymouth Colony in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
Bradford–Union Street Historic District
Neighborhood
Photo: Faolin42, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Bradford–Union Street Historic District encompasses a waterfront residential area of Plymouth, Massachusetts, developed in the mid-19th for workers in local maritime and other industries.
Plymouth
- Categories: town in the United States, county seat, and locality
- Location: Plymouth, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
41.9584° or 41° 57′ 30″ northLongitude
-70.6674° or 70° 40′ 3″ westPopulation
61,200Elevation
75 feet (23 metres)IATA airport code
PYMUnited Nations Location Code
US PYMOpen location code
87HFX85M+92OpenStreetMap ID
node 158863084OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
4947597Wikidata ID
Q326295
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Plymouth” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Plymouth, Massachusetts”
- Afrikaans: “Plymouth”
- Arabic: “بليموث”
- Armenian: “Պլիմուտ”
- Azerbaijani: “Plimut”
- Basque: “Plymouth”
- Belarusian: “Плімут”
- Bengali: “প্লিমথ, ম্যাসাচুসেটস”
- Bengali: “প্লিমথ”
- Bulgarian: “Плимут”
- Bulgarian: “Плимът”
- Catalan: “Plymouth”
- Cebuano: “Plymouth”
- Chechen: “Плимут”
- Chinese: “Plymouth”
- Chinese: “普利茅夫”
- Chinese: “普利茅斯”
- Croatian: “Plymouth, Massachusetts”
- Croatian: “Plymouth”
- Czech: “Plymouth”
- Danish: “Plymouth”
- Dutch: “Plymouth”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بليموث”
- Esperanto: “Plymouth”
- Estonian: “Plymouth”
- Faroese: “Plymouth”
- Finnish: “Plymouth, Massachusetts”
- Finnish: “Plymouth”
- French: “Plymouth”
- German: “Kolonie Plymouth”
- German: “Plymouth”
- Haitian: “Plymouth, Massachusetts”
- Haitian: “Plymouth”
- Hebrew: “פלימות‘”
- Hebrew: “פלימות’”
- Hungarian: “Plymouth”
- Indonesian: “Plymouth, Massachusetts”
- Indonesian: “Plymouth”
- Irish: “Plymouth”
- Italian: “Plymouth”
- Japanese: “プリマス”
- Kazakh: “Plïmaws”
- Kazakh: “Плимаус”
- Kazakh: “پلىيماۋس”
- Kirghiz: “Плимаус”
- Korean: “플리머스”
- Latvian: “Plimuta”
- Lithuanian: “Plimutas”
- Mazanderani: “پلیموث (ماساچوست)”
- Mazanderani: “پلیموث”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Plymouth”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Plymouth”
- Norwegian: “Plymouth”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Plymmuþ on Mæseċūm”
- Ossetian: “Плимут (Массачусетс)”
- Ossetian: “Плимут”
- Persian: “پلیموت”
- Persian: “پلیموث، ماساچوست”
- Persian: “پلیموث”
- Polish: “Plymouth”
- Portuguese: “Plymouth”
- Romanian: “Plymouth, Massachusetts”
- Romanian: “Plymouth”
- Russian: “Плимут”
- Sardinian: “Plymouth”
- Serbian: “Плимут”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Plymouth, Massachusetts”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Plymouth”
- Slovak: “Plymouth”
- Slovenian: “Plymouth”
- South Azerbaijani: “پلیموت، ماساچوست”
- Spanish: “Plymouth (Massachusetts)”
- Spanish: “Plymouth”
- Swahili: “Plymouth, Massachusetts”
- Swahili: “Plymouth”
- Swedish: “Plymouth, Massachusetts”
- Swedish: “Plymouth”
- Talysh: “Plimut”
- Tamil: “பிளைமவுத், மாசச்சூசெட்ஸ்”
- Tamil: “பிளைமவுத்”
- Tatar: “Плимут”
- Tornedalen Finnish: “Plymouth, Massachusetts”
- Tornedalen Finnish: “Plymouth”
- Turkish: “Plymouth, Massachusetts”
- Turkish: “Plymouth”
- Ukrainian: “Плімут”
- Urdu: “پلایماؤت، میساچوسٹس”
- Urdu: “پلایماؤت”
- Vietnamese: “Plymouth, Massachusetts”
- Vietnamese: “Plymouth”
- Volapük: “Plymouth”
- Waray (Philippines): “Plymouth, Massachusetts”
- Waray (Philippines): “Plymouth”
- Welsh: “Plymouth, Massachusetts”
- Welsh: “Plymouth”
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