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Massachusetts is a state located in the Northeastern United States. Municipalities in the state are classified as either towns or cities, distinguished by their form of government under state law. Towns have an open town meeting or representative town meeting form of government; cities, on the other hand, use a mayor-council or council-manager ...
The U.S. state of Massachusetts has 14 counties, though eight [1] of these fourteen county governments were abolished between 1997 and 2000. The counties in the southeastern portion of the state retain county-level local government (Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Norfolk, Plymouth) or, in one case, ( Nantucket County) consolidated city-county ...
Administrative divisions of Massachusetts. Massachusetts shares with the five other New England states a governmental structure known as the New England town. Only the southeastern third of the state has functioning county governments; in western, central, and northeastern Massachusetts, traditional county-level government was eliminated in the ...
Massachusetts is the sixth-smallest state by land area. With over seven million residents as of 2020, [ note 1] it is the most populous state in New England, the 16th-most-populous in the country, and the third-most densely populated, after New Jersey and Rhode Island. Massachusetts was a site of early English colonization.
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the U.S. Commonwealth of Massachusetts : Massachusetts – U.S. state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at ...
Middlesex County, Massachusetts. / 42.49; -71.39. Middlesex County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 1,632,002, [ 1] making it the most populous county in both Massachusetts and New England and the 22nd most populous county in the United States.
The Berkshire Hills, part of the Appalachian Mountains, in winter. Berkshire County (pronounced / ˈbɜːrkʃər /) is the westernmost county in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. As of the 2020 census, the population was 129,026. [2] Its largest city and traditional county seat is Pittsfield. [3]
English: A map of Massachusetts showing the different statuses of local government at the county level. Key: Red - County government abolished or disincorporated Pink - County government role operated by a municipality (not city-county consolidation). Blue - Current county government