Yahoo Web Search

Search results

  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › BostonBoston - Wikipedia

    Boston (US: / ˈ b ɔː s t ə n /), officially the City of Boston, is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. The city serves as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the Northeastern United States.

    • History
    • Geography
    • Culture
    • Boston Today
    • Demographics
    • Transportation
    • Further Reading
    • Other Websites

    Boston was founded on September 7, 1630, by Puritan colonists from England. Boston's early European settlers called the area Trimountaine (Three Mountains). They renamed the town for Boston, England, in Lincolnshire because many important "Pilgrim" colonists came from there. Most of Boston's early citizens were Puritans. Shortly after Boston's sett...

    Boston is located on the Shawmut Peninsula. The city covers 41.3 square miles (107 km2). Boston Harbor and the Atlantic Ocean is located east of the city. A much larger metropolitan areasurrounds Boston. The highest point in Boston is Bellevue Hill, at 330 feet (100 m) above sea level. The lowest point is at sea level. Boston is the only state capi...

    Boston has a culture that is quite similar to New England, such as a New England accent and foods that are mostly seafood, salt, and dairy products. Irish-Americans are very important in Boston's politics and religious activities. Boston people also have a style of talking which is called Boston slang. It is often thought that Bostonians have a str...

    Boston is one of the United States' most important cities in education and health care. Boston and the towns around it contain many of the country's leading universities. Harvard, MIT, and Boston Universityare some of the most famous. Professional sports are an important part of life in Boston. The Red Sox play baseball at Fenway Park, the oldest s...

    People

    In 2020, the populationof Boston was 675,647. The population had grown 9.4% since 2010. Boston has 13,977 people per square mile. The population is 47.3% male and 52.7% female. The racial breakdown is shown in the Racial Groups table. The people from outside the United States are 178,805. 27.7% of the population come from outside of the United States.

    Education

    About 89.1% of the population ages 25 years and over in Boston have a high school diploma or higher in 2022. Those with a Bachelor's degreeor higher make up 54.2% of the population. Some of the Colleges and Universities in Boston are: 1. Baystate College 2. Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology 3. Berklee College of Music 4. Boston University 5. Boston College 6. Bunker Hill Community College 7. Emerson College 8. Emmanuel College 9. Fisher College 10. Massachusetts College of Art and Des...

    The MBTA runs the city's subway (known as "the T"), commuter rail, buses, and ferries. The main airport for the city is Logan International Airport. The main highwaysfor the area are:

    Boston: A to Z (2000), Thomas H. O'Connor, ISBN 0674003101
    Built in Boston: City and Suburb, 1800–2000 (2000), Douglass Shand-Tucci, ISBN 1558492011
    Lost Boston (1999), Mariner Books, ISBN 0395966108
    Boston: A Topographical History, Third Enlarged Edition (2000), Belknap Press, ISBN 0674002687
  2. Boston was named and officially incorporated on September 30, 1630 . The city quickly became the political, commercial, financial, religious and educational center of Puritan New England and grew to play a central role in the history of the United States.

  3. UTC−4 ( EDT) Area code (s) 617, 781, 857, 339, 978, 508, 351, 774, 603, 401. Greater Boston is the metropolitan region of New England encompassing the municipality of Boston, the capital of the U.S. state of Massachusetts and the most populous city in New England, and its surrounding areas. The most stringent definition of the ...

  4. bandboston .com. Boston is an American rock band formed in 1975 by Tom Scholz in Boston, Massachusetts, that experienced significant commercial success during the 1970s and 1980s. The band's core members include multi-instrumentalist, founder and leader Scholz, who played the majority of instruments on the band's 1976 self-titled ...

  5. 3 days ago · Boston, city, capital of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, and seat of Suffolk county, in the northeastern United States. It lies on Massachusetts Bay, an arm of the Atlantic Ocean. The city proper has an unusually small area for a major city, and more than one-fourth of the total—including part of the Charles River, Boston Harbor ...

  6. www.wikiwand.com › en › BostonBoston - Wikiwand

    Boston, officially the City of Boston, is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. The city serves as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the Northeastern United States.