Greater Boston is the area of the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts surrounding the city of
Boston, Massachusetts. While Metro Boston tends to be the "Inner Core" surrounding the City of Boston, Greater Boston overlaps the
North and
South Shores, as well as the
MetroWest region. It includes America's eleventh-largest metropolitan area, home to over 4.4 million people, and is part of a wider region that includes the metropolitan areas of
Providence,
Manchester and
Worcester, with a total population of 7.4 million. The major cities include the City of
Boston,
Cambridge,
Quincy,
Newton, and the largest
town in
New England by population,
Framingham. Greater Boston contains more urbanized area than the other regions of Massachusetts, such as the more rural
Western Massachusetts and the beach communities of
Cape Cod. The area features many
universities. There are a decreasing number of
working class communities within Greater Boston.
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