Greater Boston

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, home to 4,941,632. The most stringent definition of the region, used by the Metropolitan Area Planning Council, consists of most of the eastern third of mainland Massachusetts, excluding the Merrimack Valley and most of Southeastern Massachusetts, though most definitions (including the U.S. Census definition) include much of these areas and portions of southern New Hampshire. engineering, higher education, finance, and maritime trade.

Greater Boston is ranked tenth in population among US metropolitan statistical areas, home to 4,941,632 people as of the 2020 United States census, and seventh among combined statistical areas, with a population of 8,493,824. The area has hosted many people and sites significant to American culture and history, particularly American literature, politics, and the American Revolution.

Plymouth was the site of the first colony in New England, founded in 1620 by the Pilgrims, passengers of the Mayflower. In 1692, the town of Salem and surrounding areas experienced one of America's most infamous cases of mass hysteria, the Salem witch trials. In the late 18th century, Boston became known as the "Cradle of Liberty" for the agitation there that led to the American Revolution.

The Greater Boston region has played a powerful scientific, commercial, and cultural role in the history of the United States. Before the American Civil War, the region was a center for the abolitionist, temperance, and transcendentalist movements. In 2004, Massachusetts became the first U.S. state to legally recognize same-sex marriage as a result of the decision of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in Boston. Many prominent American political dynasties have hailed from the Boston region, including the Adams and Kennedy families.

Harvard University in Cambridge is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States, founded in 1636, with the largest financial endowment of any university, and whose Law School has spawned a contemporaneous majority of United States Supreme Court Justices. Kendall Square in Cambridge has been called "the most innovative square mile on the planet", in reference to the high concentration of entrepreneurial start-ups and quality of innovation which have emerged in the vicinity of the square since 2010. Both Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, also in Cambridge, have been ranked among the most highly regarded academic institutions in the world.

Geography

Boundary definitions

Metropolitan Area

The most restrictive definition of the Greater Boston area is the region administered by the Metropolitan Area Planning Council. The MAPC is a regional planning organization created by the Massachusetts legislature to oversee transportation infrastructure and economic development concerns in the Boston area. The MAPC includes 101 cities and towns that are grouped into eight subregions. These include most of the area within the region's outer circumferential highway, I-495. In 2013, the population of the MAPC district was 3.2 million, which was 48% of the total population of Massachusetts, in an area of ,

The cities and towns included in this definition are:

New England City and Town Area

Two definitions are used by the United States Census to define the Boston–Cambridge–Newton, MA–NH Metro Area or Boston–Cambridge–Newton, MA–NH Metropolitan NECTA, which is defined as a New England City and Town Area. The metro area definition is based on counties, while the NECTA definition is based on city and town boundaries. Counties included in the county-based definition include:

thumb|upright=1.1|[[Downtown Providence, Rhode Island in 2008]]

Massachusetts
Barnstable County, Massachusetts
Bristol County, Massachusetts
Essex County, Massachusetts
Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Norfolk County, Massachusetts
Plymouth County, Massachusetts
Suffolk County, Massachusetts
Worcester County, Massachusetts
New Hampshire
Belknap County, New Hampshire
Hillsborough County, New Hampshire
Merrimack County, New Hampshire
Rockingham County, New Hampshire
Strafford County, New Hampshire
Rhode Island
Bristol County, Rhode Island
Kent County, Rhode Island
Newport County, Rhode Island
Providence County, Rhode Island
Washington County, Rhode Island

The total population for the extended region was estimated at 7,493,824 at the 2020 census.

Subregions

Massachusetts
Central Massachusetts
Montachusett-North County
South County
Blackstone River Valley
North Shore
Cape Ann
Merrimack Valley
MetroWest
Southeastern Massachusetts
Cape Cod
South Coast
South Shore
New Hampshire
Lakes Region
Seacoast
Rhode Island
Blackstone Valley
East Bay

Climate

The Boston area has humid continental climates (Dfa and Dfb under the Köppen climate classification system), with high humidity and precipitation year-round.

Demographics

thumb|Population density in the Boston urban area

thumb|[[St. Patrick's Day Parade in Scituate, Massachusetts, in Plymouth County, the municipality with the highest percentage identifying Irish ancestry in the United States, at 47.5% in 2010. Irish Americans constitute the largest ethnicity in Greater Boston.]]

thumb|[[Chinatown, Boston|Boston's Chinatown, with its paifang gate, is home to many Chinese and also Vietnamese restaurants.]]

thumb|Boston [[gay pride march, held annually in June]]

Greater Boston has a sizable Jewish community, estimated at between 210,000 people, and 261,000 or 5–6% of the Greater Boston metro population, compared with about 2% for the nation as a whole. Contrary to national trends, the number of Jews in Greater Boston has been growing, fueled by the fact that 60% of children in Jewish mixed-faith families are raised Jewish, compared with roughly one in three nationally.

The City of Boston also has one of the largest LGBT populations per capita. It ranks fifth of all major cities in the country (behind San Francisco, and slightly behind Seattle, Atlanta, and Minneapolis), with 12.3% of the city identifying as gay, lesbian, or bisexual.

{|class="wikitable sortable"

!County

!2021 Estimate

!2020 Census

!Change

!Area

!Density

|Middlesex County, Massachusetts

|Essex County, Massachusetts

|Suffolk County, Massachusetts

|Norfolk County, Massachusetts

|Plymouth County, Massachusetts

|Rockingham County, New Hampshire

|Strafford County, New Hampshire

|- class=sortbottom style="background:#fbfbbb"

|Total

The 40 most diverse Census tracts in the Boston CSA:

{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible collapsed"

!Rank

!City or neighborhood

!Census tract

!Population

!% White

!% Black

!% Hispanic

!% Asian

!% multiracial or other

|Dorchester

|916

|3,138

|12

|32

|15

|26

|14

|Pawtucket

|161

|4,607

|28

|24

|28

|18

|Pawtucket, Rhode Island|Pawtucket

|151

|4,472

|24

|29

|23

|Pawtucket, Rhode Island|Pawtucket

|164

|4,938

|29

|26

|21

|20

|Dorchester, Massachusetts|Dorchester

|912

|3,234

|30

|24

|22

|18

|Dorchester, Massachusetts|Dorchester

|92101

|6,451

|30

|22

|11

|31

|Brockton

|5115

|4,308

|21

|32

|13

|32

|Brockton, Massachusetts|Brockton

|511

|3,040

|28

|33

|15

|24

|New Bedford

|6519

|1,942

|26

|11

|33

|29

|10

|Mission Hill

|80801

|3,885

|32

|20

|35

|10

|11

|Pawtucket, Rhode Island|Pawtucket

|154

|2,258

|35

|20

|35

|11

|12

|Brockton, Massachusetts|Brockton

|5114

|3,716

|24

|36

|14

|23

|13

|Brockton, Massachusetts|Brockton

|5109

|2,531

|24

|36

|16

|24

|14

|Brockton, Massachusetts|Brockton

|5103

|3,798

|23

|38

|15

|24

|15

|Brockton, Massachusetts|Brockton

|5104

|3,706

|19

|38

|15

|25

|16

|Dorchester, Massachusetts|Dorchester

|90901

|3,730

|38

|18

|21

|20

|17

|Worcester

|733

|3,762

|38

|10

|37

|12

|18

|Providence

|26

|3,098

|23

|22

|39

|10

|19

|Malden

|3415

|4,780

|39

|23

|14

|19

|20

|Cambridge

|3524

|2,126

|27

|39

|16

|12

|21

|South End

|71202

|3,131

|39

|19

|24

|15

|22

|Brockton, Massachusetts|Brockton

|511301

|5,334

|39

|31

|11

|17

|23

|Providence, Rhode Island|Providence

|15

|2,994

|28

|13

|41

|14

|24

|South Boston

|61

|3,098

|41

|15

|29

|11

|25

|Lynn

|2072

|2,939

|30

|12

|42

|13

|26

|Cambridge, Massachusetts|Cambridge

|3549

|6,058

|35

|30

|20

|27

|South Boston

|61101

|2,232

|20

|21

|42

|14

|28

|Brockton, Massachusetts|Brockton

|5116

|7,211

|42

|29

|10

|16

|29

|Roxbury

|801

|3,350

|15

|43

|28

|11

|30

|Lowell

|3114

|5,986

|44

|11

|14

|26

|31

|Brockton, Massachusetts|Brockton

|5108

|6,339

|18

|44

|12

|22

|32

|Mission Hill, Boston|Mission Hill

|81001

|4,890

|45

|14

|19

|33

|Malden, Massachusetts|Malden

|3418

|6,554

|46

|20

|13

|16

|34

|South Boston

|607

|1,893

|19

|20

|46

|10

|35

|Brockton, Massachusetts|Brockton

|5107

|5,656

|46

|31

|11

|36

|Brockton, Massachusetts|Brockton

|5112

|4,849

|47

|26

|11

|13

|37

|Somerville

|351404

|4,289

|47

|22

|13

|11

|38

|Lynn, Massachusetts|Lynn

|2071

|3,513

|18

|11

|48

|19

|39

|Framingham

|383101

|4,923

|23

|10

|48

|18

|40

|Mission Hill, Boston|Mission Hill

|811

|4,091

|48

|21

|15

|13

The 40 census tracts in the Boston CSA with the highest percentage of residents who identify as Hispanic or Latino:

{| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed"

!City or Neighborhood

!Census Tract

!Population

!% Irish

|South Boston

|60101

|3,106

|68

|Milton

|416400

|6,069

|63

|Charlestown

|040401

|2,439

|63

|Dorchester

|1007

|4,322

|63

|South Boston

|608

|3,964

|62

|South Boston

|604

|4,904

|61

|Milton, Massachusetts|Milton

|416101

|5,724

|58

|Marshfield

|506204

|4,886

|57

|Weymouth

|422100

|5,293

|57

|Quincy

|417801

|5,443

|55

|Hull

|500101

|3,702

|55

|Scituate

|505101

|3,860

|55

|West Roxbury

|130402

|4,637

|54

|Quincy, Massachusetts|Quincy

|417400

|2,566

|53

|South Boston

|60301

|3,076

|52

|Abington

|520100

|6,458

|52

|Braintree

|419200

|5,002

|52

|Braintree, Massachusetts|Braintree

|419600

|6,766

|52

|Abington, Massachusetts|Abington

|520201

|3,952

|52

|Pembroke

|508200

|6,031

|52

Census tracts in the Boston CSA with the highest percentage of residents who identify as Italian American:

{| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed"

!City or Neighborhood

!Census Tract

!Population

!% Italian

|Johnston

|012402

|2,486

|63

|Cranston

|014501

|5,179

|58

|Johnston, Rhode Island|Johnston

|012500

|5,490

|57

|Johnston, Rhode Island|Johnston

|012200

|7,187

|57

|Providence

|011902

|4,780

|55

|Cranston, Rhode Island|Cranston

|014800

|5,591

|55

|Saugus

|208102

|3,343

|51

|Cranston, Rhode Island|Cranston

|014300

|4,716

|49

|Cranston, Rhode Island|Cranston

|014600

|6,991

|49

|Cranston, Rhode Island|Cranston

|014502

|4,096

|48

|Johnston, Rhode Island|Johnston

|012300

|6,656

|48

|Johnston, Rhode Island|Johnston

|012401

|6,950

|48

|Stoneham

|337102

|5,042

|45

|Stoneham, Massachusetts|Stoneham

|337202

|4,849

|45

|Revere

|170200

|4,564

|45

|Revere, Massachusetts|Revere

|170502

|2,818

|43

|Cranston, Rhode Island|Cranston

|013900

|2,992

|43

|Revere, Massachusetts|Revere

|170300

|9,040

|43

|North Providence

|012103

|2,965

|43

Census tracts in the Boston CSA with the highest percentage of residents who identify as Portuguese American:

{| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed"

!City or Neighborhood

!Census Tract

!Population

!% Portuguese

|New Bedford

|652800

|3,277

|72

|Fall River

|640600

|4,450

|69

|Dartmouth

|653203

|5,005

|65

|New Bedford, Massachusetts|New Bedford

|652400

|2,664

|64

|New Bedford, Massachusetts|New Bedford

|652000

|2,676

|62

|Fall River, Massachusetts|Fall River

|640500

|5,165

|60

|Fall River, Massachusetts|Fall River

|641200

|2,803

|59

|New Bedford, Massachusetts|New Bedford

|650500

|3,141

|58

|Fall River, Massachusetts|Fall River

|640901

|5,071

|58

|New Bedford, Massachusetts|New Bedford

|650400

|3,773

|57

|New Bedford, Massachusetts|New Bedford

|652500

|2,589

|56

|East Providence

|010400

|6,661

|55

|New Bedford, Massachusetts|New Bedford

|652300

|2,870

|54

|Fall River, Massachusetts|Fall River

|641000

|2,419

|54

|Fall River, Massachusetts|Fall River

|640300

|3,693

|53

|Westport

|646101

|7,356

|53

|Fall River, Massachusetts|Fall River

|640700

|2,900

|53

|Fall River, Massachusetts|Fall River

|640400

|2,682

|53

|New Bedford, Massachusetts|New Bedford

|650101

|5,753

|53

|Fall River, Massachusetts|Fall River

|640100

|5,358

|52

Census tracts in the Boston CSA with French or French Canadian listed as first ancestry:

{| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed"

!City or Neighborhood

!Census Tract

!Population

!% French

|Woonsocket

|018500

|2,831

|66

|Woonsocket, Rhode Island|Woonsocket

|017700

|3,518

|61

|Woonsocket, Rhode Island|Woonsocket

|017500

|3,128

|59

|Woonsocket, Rhode Island|Woonsocket

|017800

|2,514

|58

|Burrillville

|013001

|3,479

|56

|North Smithfield

|012802

|2,391

|54

|North Smithfield, Rhode Island|North Smithfield

|012803

|4,776

|53

|Burrillville, Rhode Island|Burrillville

|013002

|7,539

|53

|North Smithfield, Rhode Island|North Smithfield

|012801

|4,800

|52

|Manchester

|002300

|3,758

|52

|Woonsocket, Rhode Island|Woonsocket

|017900

|3,049

|51

|Burrillville, Rhode Island|Burrillville

|012900

|4,937

|50

|Manchester, New Hampshire|Manchester

|000202

|2,297

|49

|Manchester, New Hampshire|Manchester

|002100

|4,782

|49

|Woonsocket, Rhode Island|Woonsocket

|017600

|2,560

|49

|Manchester, New Hampshire|Manchester

|002600

|5,746

|48

|Manchester, New Hampshire|Manchester

|002200

|3,232

|47

|Woonsocket, Rhode Island|Woonsocket

|018400

|6,527

|47

|Blackstone

|747101

|5,110

|47

|Woonsocket, Rhode Island|Woonsocket

|018000

|2,680

|46

Largest cities and towns

Cities and towns with a population over 50,000 as of the 2020 census include:

{| class="wikitable"

|State capital

|style="background:#c0dbf7"|State largest city

{| class="wikitable sortable"

!Rank

!Name

!State

!Population (2020)

!Population (2010)

!Change

|1.

|style="background:#c0dbf7"|Boston

| rowspan="2" |

|2.

|Worcester

|3.

|style="background:#c0dbf7"|Providence

|4.

|Cambridge

|5.

|style="background:#c0dbf7"|Manchester

|6.

|Lowell

| rowspan="6" |

|7.

|Brockton

|8.

|Quincy

|9.

|Lynn

|10.

|New Bedford

|11.

|Fall River

|12.

|Nashua

|13.

|Lawrence

| rowspan="2" |

|14.

|Newton

|15.

|Cranston

| rowspan="2" |

|16.

|Warwick

|17.

|Somerville

|18.

|Pawtucket

|19.

|Framingham

| rowspan="12" |

|20.

|Haverhill

|21.

|Malden

|22.

|Waltham

|23.

|Brookline

|24.

|Revere

|25.

|Plymouth

|26.

|Medford

|27.

|Taunton

|28.

|Weymouth

|29.

|Peabody

|30.

|Methuen

Education

thumb|Harvard University, a leading global university, is located in Cambridge, MA in Greater Boston

A long established center of higher education, the area includes many community colleges, two-year schools, and internationally prominent undergraduate and graduate institutions. The graduate schools include highly regarded schools of law, medicine, business, technology, international relations, public health, education, and religion. Greater Boston contains seven R1 Research Institutions as per the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. This is, by far, the highest number of such institutions in a single Metropolitan Statistical Area in the United States.

Economy

Major companies

References:

Abbott Laboratories, in Worcester (pharmaceutical laboratory)
Advanced Cell Technology, in Worcester (research laboratory)
Akamai Technologies, in Cambridge (headquarters)
AMD, in Boxborough
American Tower (headquarters)
Analog Devices, in Norwood
AstraZeneca, in Waltham (R&D)
Athenahealth, in Watertown, Massachusetts (headquarters)
Atlantic Broadband, in Quincy
Atlantic Tele-Network, in Beverly
Au Bon Pain (headquarters)
Avid Technology, Inc, in Burlington (headquarters)
Azimuth Systems, in Acton
Bain & Company, in Boston (headquarters)
Bain Capital, in Boston (headquarters)
BBN Technologies, in Cambridge (headquarters)
Bertucci's Corporation, in Northborough (headquarters)
Biocell Center, in Medford (North American headquarters)
Biogen Idec, in Weston (North American headquarters)
BJ's Wholesale Club, Inc., in Westborough (headquarters)
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts (headquarters)
Bose Corporation, in Framingham (headquarters)
Boston Consulting Group (headquarters)
Boston Properties, Inc., in Boston (headquarters)
Boston Scientific Corporation, in Marlborough (headquarters)
Carl Zeiss SMT, in Peabody (North American headquarters)
Charles River Laboratories, in Wilmington (headquarters)
Cisco Systems, in Boxborough
Constant Contact, in Waltham
Converse (headquarters)
David Clark Company, in Worcester (manufacturer of space suits)
Dell Technologies, in Hopkinton (headquarters)
Diebold, in Marlborough (regional headquarters)
Dunkin' Brands, in Canton (headquarters)
Evergreen Solar, in Marlborough (headquarters)
Facebook, in Cambridge
Fidelity Investments (headquarters)
General Electric Aviation, in Lynn
General Electric (headquarters)
The Gillette Company, now owned by Procter & Gamble (headquarters)
Global Partners, in Waltham (headquarters)
Google Inc., in Cambridge
Haemonetics, in Braintree
Hewlett-Packard, in Marlborough (regional headquarters)
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (headquarters)
HourlyNerd, in Boston
IBM, in Waltham, Cambridge and Littleton
Innerscope Research, in Boston (headquarters)
Intel Corporation, in Hudson
InterSystems Corporation, in Cambridge (headquarters)
iRobot Corporation, in Burlington (headquarters)
John Hancock Financial Services, Inc, now the United States division of Canada's Manulife Financial
Keurig, in Burlington (headquarters)
Kronos Incorporated, in Chelmsford, Massachusetts (headquarters)
Liberty Mutual (headquarters)
Lionbridge, in Waltham (US headquarters)
LogMeIn (headquarters)
LPL Financial (headquarters)
The MathWorks, in Natick
Marshalls, Inc, in Framingham (headquarters)
Meditech, in Westwood (headquarters)
Microsoft Corporation, in Cambridge
Millennium Pharmaceuticals, in Cambridge
MITRE Corporation, in Bedford (headquarters)
Moderna, in Cambridge (headquarters)
Motorola Solutions, Inc., in Somerville
National Amusements, in Norwood (headquarters)
National Grid, in Waltham (US headquarters)
NetApp Inc, in Waltham
New Balance Athletic Shoe, Inc. (headquarters)
Nokia, in Burlington
Novartis, in Cambridge (US headquarters)
Novell, Inc., in Waltham
Nuance Communications, in Burlington
Oracle Corporation in Burlington
Osram Sylvania in Danvers (headquarters)
OutStart, Inc., in Boston (headquarters)
Partners HealthCare (moving to Assembly Row, Somerville)
Philips Healthcare, in Andover (global headquarters) and Framingham
Philips Lighting in Burlington
Philips Electronics North America, in Andover (regional headquarters)
Progress Software in Bedford (headquarters)
PTC (headquarters)
Puma (North American headquarters, moving to Assembly Row, Somerville)
Putnam Investments (headquarters)
Rapid7
Raytheon, in Waltham (headquarters)
Red Hat, in Westford (engineering headquarters)
Reebok (US headquarters)
Reed & Barton in Taunton (factory and headquarters)
Roku
Saint-Gobain, in Worcester
Sapient Corporation (headquarters)
Schneider Electric, in Andover, Massachusetts
Sepracor, Inc., in Marlborough (headquarters)
SharkNinja, in Needham (headquarters)
Sonesta International Hotels Corp. (headquarters)
Staples, Inc., in Framingham (headquarters)
State Street Corporation (headquarters)
Steward Health Care System (headquarters)
Stop & Shop, in Quincy (headquarters)
SunSetter Products, LP, in Malden (headquarters)
Teradyne, in North Reading (headquarters)
Text, Inc., in Boston
Thermo Fisher Scientific, in Waltham (headquarters)
Threat Stack (headquarters)
TJX Corporation, in Framingham (headquarters)
Toast, Inc. (headquarters)
TripAdvisor, LLC, in Needham (headquarters)
Twitter, in Cambridge
UniFirst, in Wilmington (headquarters)
Vertex Pharmaceuticals (headquarters)
Vistaprint, in Lexington (North American headquarters)
Wayfair (headquarters)
WB Mason, in Brockton (headquarters)
Wellington Management Company (headquarters)
Wolverine World Wide, in Waltham, Massachusetts (headquarters for Keds, Saucony, Sperry Top-Sider, and Stride Rite)
Wyman-Gordon, in Grafton (complex metal components and products)
Zipcar (headquarters)

Transportation

Interstates

U.S. Routes

State Highways

Bridges and tunnels

Boston University Bridge, carrying Route 2
Callahan Tunnel, carrying Route 1A Northbound
Charles M. Braga Jr. Memorial Bridge, carrying Interstate 195
Claiborne Pell Newport Bridge, carrying Route 138
Fore River Bridge, carrying Massachusetts Route 3A
Harvard Bridge, carrying Route 2A
Longfellow Bridge, carrying Massachusetts Route 3, US Route 3, and the MBTA Red Line
William Felton "Bill" Russell Bridge, carrying Route 99
Sumner Tunnel, carrying Route 1A Southbound
Ted Williams Tunnel, carrying I-90
Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. Tunnel, carrying I-93 and Routes 1 and 3 concurrently
Tobin Bridge, carrying Route 1
Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge, carrying Interstate 93, Route 1 and Route 3 concurrently

Airports

Logan International Airport in Boston, northeast of downtown Boston, New England's largest transportation center
Manchester–Boston Regional Airport in Manchester, New Hampshire
T. F. Green Airport in Warwick, Rhode Island
Hanscom Field in Bedford
Norwood Memorial Airport
Worcester Regional Airport
Beverly Regional Airport
Lawrence Municipal Airport

Rail and bus

thumb|The MBTA district, with Commuter Rail lines in purple

The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) is the primary operator of transit in Greater Boston. It operates the MBTA subway system and the MBTA bus network in Boston and inner suburbs, as well as the MBTA Commuter Rail system and the MBTA ferry network serving Greater Boston.

Other public transit includes Amtrak intercity rail service, Logan Express service to Logan International Airport, and privately-operated intercity bus and ferry systems. A number of regional transit authorities operate local bus service:

Brockton Area Transit Authority
Cape Ann Transportation Authority
Greater Attleboro Taunton Regional Transit Authority
Lowell Regional Transit Authority
Merrimack Valley Regional Transit Authority
MetroWest Regional Transit Authority
Montachusett Regional Transit Authority
Rhode Island Public Transit Authority
Worcester Regional Transit Authority

Ocean transportation

thumb|right|The Salem Ferry, 92 ft. [[Catamaran is photographed approaching its dock off Blaney Street at the Salem Maritime National Historic Site in Salem, Massachusetts, United States.]]

Port of Boston (Massport)
Cape Cod Canal

Sports

{| class="wikitable"

!Club

!Sport

!League

!Stadium

!Established

!League titles

|Boston Bruins

|Ice hockey

|National Hockey League

|TD Garden (Boston)

|1924

|6 Stanley Cups 7 Eastern Conference Titles

|Boston Celtics

|Basketball

|National Basketball Association

|TD Garden (Boston)

|1946

|18 NBA Championships 23 Eastern Conference Titles

|Boston Red Sox

|Baseball

|Major League Baseball

|Fenway Park (Boston)

|1901

|9 MLB World Series Championships 14 American League Pennants

|New England Patriots

|Football

|National Football League

|Gillette Stadium (Foxborough)

|1960

|6 Super Bowl Championships 11 AFC Championships

|New England Revolution

|Soccer

|Major League Soccer

|Gillette Stadium (Foxborough)

|1996

|1 US Open Cup 1 Supporters' Shield

|New England Free Jacks

|Rugby union

|Major League Rugby

|Veterans Memorial Stadium (Quincy)

|2018

|2 MLR Championships

Annual sporting events include:

The Boston Marathon, which follows a course from Hopkinton to Boston
The Head of the Charles Regatta
The Lenox Industrial Tools 301, Sylvania 300 and New Hampshire Indy 225 auto races at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway oval track.

The Greater Boston League, a high school athletic conference in Massachusetts.

Greater Boston

Geography

Boundary definitions

Metropolitan Area

New England City and Town Area

Subregions

Climate

Demographics

Largest cities and towns

Education

Economy

Major companies

Transportation

Interstates

U.S. Routes

State Highways

Bridges and tunnels

Airports

Rail and bus

Ocean transportation

Sports

Notes

References

Further reading