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Boston (USA)
Boston is the capital and largest city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. It is the unofficial capital of the region known as New England. It is also one of the oldest and wealthiest cities in the United States, with an economy based on education, health care, finance, and high technology. Its nicknames include "Beantown", "The Hub" (shortened from Oliver Wendell Holmes' phrase The Hub of the Universe), and The Athens of America, due to its great influence on cultural, intellectual, and political matters.The ten closest neighbours in the database:
New York (USA) (306 km), Washington D.C. (USA) (633 km), Toronto (Canada) (694 km), Detroit (USA) (984 km), The Art Institute of Chicago (1,365 km), Chicago (USA) (1,367 km), Milwaukee (USA) (1,376 km), Atlanta (USA) (1,506 km), Orlando (USA) (1,795 km), Miami (USA) (2,023 km)
Take a birds-eye view of the current location:
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