Greater Boston is additional citified & industrialized than a other regions of Massachusetts, like a more rural Western Massachusetts and the beach communities of Cape Cod. A region features a great total of universities. Despite this, numerous areas remain somewhat working class, although increasingly less-then it used to be that 2 decades.

Greater Boston encompasses numbers of important locations inside American history and culture. Examples include a Paul Revere House, the Old North Church, the Old Granary Burying Ground, the places of the Boston Tea Party, the Battle of Bunker Hill, the USS Constitution, Lexington and Concord, Walden Pond, the places of the Salem witch trials, and a Christian Science Mother Church. Previous President John Adams was born around Quincy, Massachusetts, as was former President John Quincy Adams. Previous President John F. Kennedy was born in Brookline, Massachusetts. Previous President George H. W. Bush was born in Milton.

A United States National Archives has a regional center inside nearby Waltham.

Major companies
Dunkin Donuts started in Greater Boston. Also, Howard Johnson's restaurants and lodgings began there.

Corporations outside Boston Akamai Technologies, in Cambridge (Headquarters) Avid Technology, Inc, in Tewksbury (Headquarters) Bose Corporation, in Framingham (Headquarters) Boston Scientific Corporation, in Natick (Headquarters) EMC Corporation, in Hopkinton (Headquarters) Genzyme Corporation, in Cambridge (Headquarters) Meditech, in Westwood (Headquarters) Novartis AG, Inc, in Cambridge (Research Headquarters) Polaroid Corporation, in Waltham Raytheon, in Waltham (Headquarters) Reebok, in Canton (Headquarters) Staples, Inc., in Framingham (Headquarters) TJX Corporation, in Framingham (Headquarters)

Major Corporations in Boston Fidelity Investments (headquarters) The Gillette Company (headquarters) Houghton Mifflin (headquarters) John Hancock Financial Services, Inc (headquarters) New Balance Athletic Shoe, Inc (headquarters) Siemens

Sports

Annual sporting cases include: A Boston Marathon follows a course from either Hopkinton to Boston A Head of the Charles Regatta

Higher education
Babson College in Wellesley Bentley College in Waltham Berklee College of Music in Boston Boston College in Chestnut Hill Boston Conservatory in Boston Boston University in Boston Brandeis University in Waltham Curry College in Milton Emerson College in Boston Emmanuel College in Boston Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering in Needham Harvard University in Cambridge Hebrew College in Newton Lasell College in Newton Lesley University in Cambridge Massachusetts College of Art in Boston Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge Mount Ida College in Newton New England Conservatory of Music in Boston Northeastern University in Boston Pine Manor College in Chestnut Hill School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston Simmons College in Boston Suffolk University in Boston Tufts University in Medford University of Massachusetts, Boston Campus Wellesley College in Wellesley Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston Wheelock College in Boston

Historical figures and celebrities
John Adams - 2nd President of the United States John Quincy Adams - 6th President of the United States Samuel Adams - revolutionary Aerosmith - rock band Ben Affleck - actor Louisa May Alcott - writer Charles Bulfinch - architect John Singleton Copley - painter Matt Damon - actor James Dole- Founder of Dole Food Company Michael Dukakis - former Massachusetts governor, Democratic candidate in the 1988 election Mary Dyer - religious martyr Ralph Waldo Emerson - transcendentalist Benjamin Franklin - statesman, scientist Buckminster Fuller - inventor Nathaniel Hawthorne - writer Oliver Wendell Holmes - writer Winslow Homer - painter Edward M. Kennedy - United States Senator John F. Kennedy - 35th President of the United States John F. Kerry - United States Senator, Democratic candidate in the 2004 election Amos Lawrence - philanthropist Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - poet Robert Lowell - poet Cotton Mather - preacher, writer Leonard Nimoy - actor Tip O'Neill - longest serving Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Theodore Parker - transcendentalist Sylvia Plath - writer Edgar Allen Poe - writer Paul Revere - revolutionary Louis Sullivan - architect Henry David Thoreau - writer Uma Thurman - actress Barbara Walters - newscaster Daniel Webster - statesman James McNeill Whistler - painter Ted Williams - Boston Red Sox player Conan O'Brien - Comedian

Transportation
Look at likewise: Boston transportation

Highways
Central Artery/Tunnel Project (Interstate 93 within Boston) Interstate 95: North to New Hampshire and Maine; south to Providence, Rhode Island and beyond US Route 1 Interstate 93: Northerly to New Hampshire; south to Canton US Route 3 Massachusetts Route 2: Northwest and west A Massachusetts Turnpike (Interstate 90): West to Framingham, Massachusetts and beyond Massachusetts Route 9: Western suburbs Massachusetts Route 24: South toward Newport, Rhode Island Massachusetts Route 3: Southeast through South Shore to Cape Cod Massachusetts Route 128 (I-95/I-93): Circumferential Highway (close to Boston) Interstate 495: Circumferential (farther from either Boston) Route 128 is for instance look on a unofficial boundary of the Greater Boston area, especially north & south. After a title Greater Boston is utilized within a supplementary inclusive feel, We-495 is for instance repute the boundary.

Bridges and tunnels
Callahan Tunnel Sumner Tunnel Ted Williams Tunnel Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge Tobin Bridge

Airports
Logan International Airport, Boston Hanscom Field, Bedford Norwood Municipal Airport Worcester, Massachusetts Airport T. F. Green Airport, Providence, Rhode Island Manchester, New Hampshire Airport

Rail transportation
Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA, The T) Red Line: Boston–Cambridge and Braintree Orange Line: Boston (Jamaica Plain)–Malden Green Line: Brookline and Newton–Cambridge Blue Line: Boston–Revere Commuter rail Amtrak

A number 1 railway line inside the United States was in Quincy. View Neponset River.

Ocean transportation
Port of Boston (Massport) Cape Cod Canal

Geography
Rivers Charles River Mystic River Neponset River

Hills Great Blue Hills