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Greater Boston

Greater Boston is the area of Massachusetts closely surrounding Boston, Massachusetts. In addition to Boston, other cities include Cambridge and Quincy. Greater Boston also includes Brookline and the largest town in North America, Framingham. Due to the concentrated nature of Eastern Massachusetts, Greater Boston experiences a good deal of overlap with the North and South Shores It located between the ninth and tenth congressional districts. Its two representatives are Stephen Lynch (Democrat-ninth district) and Bill Delahunt (Democrat-tenth district).

Greater Boston is more citified and industrialized than the other regions of Massachusetts, the more rural Western Massachusetts and the beach communities of Cape Cod. Greater Boston features a great number of universities, and is a popular college town. Despite this fact, the area remains larely working class.

Greater Boston encompasses many significant locations in American history and culture. Examples include the Paul Revere House, the Old North Church, the Old Granary Burial Ground, the site of the Boston Tea Party, Bunker Hill, the USS Constitution, Lexington and Concord, Walden Pond, and the Christian Science Mother Church. Former President George H. W. Bush was born in Milton.

Dunkin Donuts and Mister Donut had their start in Greater Boston. Likewise, Howard Johnson's restaurants and lodgings began here.

Major Companies in Greater Boston

• Companies outside Boston
  • Bose Corporation, in Framingham (Headquarters)
  • Polaroid Corporation, in Waltham
  • Raytheon, in Waltham (Headquarters)
  • Reebok, in Canton (Headquarters)

• Companies inside Boston
  • The Gillette Company (headquarters)

Major League Sports

• Baseball: Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park in South Boston
• Basketball: Boston Celtics at the Fleet Center in Central Boston
• Ice hockey: Boston Bruins at the Fleet Center in Boston
• American Football: New England Patriots at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough
• Soccer: New England Revolution at Gillette Stadium

College and Other Sports

• The Boston Marathon follows a course from Hopkinton to Boston
• The Head of the Charles Regatta

Higher Education

• Babson College in Wellesley
• Bentley College in Waltham
• Boston College in Newton and Boston
• Boston University in Boston
• Brandeis University in Waltham
• Curry College in Milton
• Harvard University in Cambridge
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge
• Northeastern University in Boston
• Simmons College in Boston
• Tufts University in Medford
• The Boston campus of the University of Massachusetts

Important historical figures and celebrities from Greater Boston

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• John Adams - 2nd President of the United States
• John Quincy Adams - 6th President of the United States
• Ben Affleck - actor
• Matt Damon - actor
• Benjamin Franklin
• Edward M. Kennedy - United States Senator
• John F. Kennedy - 35th President of the United States
• John F. Kerry - United States Senator, Democratic candidate in the 2004 election
• Chris Matthews - newscaster and commentator
• Leonard Nimoy - actor
• Uma Thurman - actress
• Barbara Walters - newscaster
• James McNeill Whistler - artist

Transportation in Greater Boston

See also Boston transportation

Highways

• Central Artery/Tunnel (Interstate 93 within Boston)
• Interstate 95: North to New Hampshire and Maine; south to Providence, Rhode Island and beyond
• US Route 1
• Interstate 93: North to New Hampshire; south to Canton
• US Route 3
• Massachusetts Route 2: Northwest and west
• The Massachusetts Turnpike (Interstate 90): West to Framingham, Massachusetts and beyond
• Massachusetts Route 9: Western suburbs
• Massachusetts Route 24: South toward Newport, Rhode Island
• Massachusetts South Shore to Cape Cod
• Massachusetts Route 128 (I-95/I-93): Circumferential Highway (close to Boston)
• Interstate 495: Circumferential (farther from Boston)

Bridges and Tunnels

• Callahan and Sumner Tunnels
• Ted Williams Tunnel
• Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge
• Tobin Bridge

Airports

• Logan International Airport, Boston
• Hanscom Field, Bedford
• Norwood Municipal Airport
• Worcester, Massachusetts Airport
• T. F. Green Airport, Providence, Rhode Island
• Manchester, New Hampshire Airport

Rail Transportation

• Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA, The T)
  • Red Line: Boston–Cambridge
  • Orange Line: Boston (Jamaica Plain)–Malden
  • Green Line: Brookline and Newton–Cambridge
  • Blue Line: Boston–Revere
  • Commuter rail
• Amtrak

The first railway line in the United States was in Quincy. See Neponset River.

Ocean Transportation

• Port of Boston (Massport)
• Cape Cod Canal

Geography

• Rivers
  • Charles River
  • Neponset River

• Hills
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