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Newton
Sign in to saveAlso known as Newton, Massachusetts, Newton, MA, Newtown, Massachusetts, UN/LOCODE:USNTN, Newton (MA), Newton, Mass, Newton, Mass., Newton ma
city in Massachusetts, United States
Newton is a city in Massachusetts located near Boston. It matters as an important residential and educational center in the greater Boston area.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- suburb
- Official name
- Newton
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Middlesex County
- Population
- 88923
- Area
- 47.04557
- Elevation
- 30
- Time zone
- UTC−04:00
- Shares border with
- Brookline
- Official website
- www.newtonma.gov
- Image
- Masonic Building, 2022, Newtonville MA.jpg
- Households
- 30756
- Dialing code
- 617
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- twinned administrative body
- San Juan del Sur
- Commons category
- Newton, Massachusetts
- topic's main category
- Category:Newton, Massachusetts
- postal code
- 02458
- inception
- 1688-00-00
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Newton, Massachusetts
- category for people who died here
- Category:Deaths in Newton, Massachusetts
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Newton, Massachusetts
- P8168
- NHB
- native label
- Newton
- water as percent of area
- 1.801
- per capita income
- 73398
- different from
- Isaac Newton
- P12749
- Arno Schickedanz
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Encyclopedic overview
Newton is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. It is located roughly 8 miles (13 km) west of Downtown Boston, and comprises a patchwork of thirteen villages. The city borders Boston to the northeast and southeast (via the neighborhoods of Brighton and West Roxbury), Brookline to the east, Watertown and Waltham to the north, and Weston, Wellesley, and Needham to the west. At the 2020 U.S. census, the population of Newton was 88,923.
Newton is home to the Charles River, Crystal Lake, and Heartbreak Hill, among other landmarks. It is served by several streets and highways (including Route 9, Hammond Pond Parkway, and the Mass Pike), as well as the Green Line D branch run by the MBTA.
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