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Boston, MA
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Boston
Boston
(pronounced ) is the
capital
and
largest city
of the
Commonwealth
of
Massachusetts
in the
United States
. Boston also served as the historic
county seat
of
Suffolk County
until Massachusetts disbanded county government in 1999. The city proper covers with an estimated population of 655,884 in 2014, making it the
largest city
in
New England
and the
24th largest city in the United States
. The city is the economic and cultural anchor of a substantially larger metropolitan area called
Greater Boston
, home to 4.7 million people and the
tenth-largest metropolitan statistical area
in the country. Greater Boston as a commuting region is home to 8.1 million people, making it the
sixth-largest combined statistical area
in the United States.
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