About the town » Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States


Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, in the Greater Boston area. It was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England, an important center of the Puritan theology embraced by the town's founders. Cambridge is home to two of the world's most prominent universities, Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. According to the 2010 United States Census, the city's population was 105,162. It is the fifth most populous city in the state, behind Boston, Worcester, Springfield, and Lowell. Cambridge was one of the two county seats of Middlesex County prior to the abolition of county government in 1997; Lowell was the other.

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Cambridge
Middlesex County
Massachusetts
United States
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