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‘Boston’ is the capital city of Massachusetts. Located in Suffolk County, it is the biggest city of the USA. It is an economic and cultural center of the entire region. Its estimated population is 616,535. The city is situated at the center of Cambridge–Boston-Quincy metropolitan area.

The Puritan colonists, who came here from England, founded this city on the Shawmut Peninsula in 1630. This city remained a main location of important events during the American Revolution in the late eighteenth century. The Boston Massacre and Boston Tea Party were held here. The battles of American Revolution; the Battle of Bunker Hill and Siege of Boston occurred here. It turned into a primary shipping port and manufacturing center after the American independence. The rich history of this city attracts 16.3 million visitors annually. It has remained a site of many firsts that includes America's first public school, Boston Latin School (1635) and first college, Harvard College (1636). It had been the home to first subway system in the USA.

The earliest European settlers of Boston called this region Trimountaine. It was later renamed to the town after Boston, Lincolnshire in England due to the presence of countless prominent colonists from the UK. This city had become one of the richest international trading ports of the world after the Revolution due to its consolidated seafaring tradition. It dealt in the export of rum, fish, salt and tobacco. Number of descendants of the old Boston families had been acknowledged as Boston Brahmins.

Boston was chartered as a city in 1822. It became the largest manufacturing centers of the nation by early 1900. It grew culturally from the mid- to late nineteenth century and became famous for its rarefied literary culture. It became a center of the abolitionist movement as well. Large number of Irish, Germans, Lebanese, French Canadian, Russian and Polish Jews settled here in the latter half of the nineteenth century. It has today emerged as an intellectual, technological and political center of the USA.