Providence is the
capital and the most populous city of the
U.S. state of
Rhode Island, and one of the first cities established in the
United States. Located in
Providence County, it is the estimated third-largest city in the
New England region. Despite having an estimated population of 175,255 as of 2006, it anchors the
35th largest metropolitan population in the country, with an estimated
MSA population of 1,622,520, exceeding that of Rhode Island by about 60
ue to its reaching into southern
Massachusetts. Situated at the mouth of the
Providence River, on
Narragansett Bay, the city's small footprint is crisscrossed by seemingly erratic streets and a rapidly changing demographic using them.
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