Worcester, Massachusetts | |
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Nickname(s): The City of the Seven Hills, The Heart of the Commonwealth, Wormtown, Woo-town, The Woo | |
Coordinates: 42°16′17″N 71°47′56″W / 42.27139°N 71.79889°W | |
Country | United States |
State | Massachusetts |
County | Worcester |
Region | New England |
Historic colonies | Massachusetts Bay Colony Dominion of New England Province of Massachusetts Bay |
Settled | 1673 |
Incorporated as a town | June 14, 1722 |
Incorporated as a city | February 29, 1848 |
Named for | Worcester, Worcestershire |
Government | |
• Type | Council–manager |
Area | |
• City | 38.44 sq mi (99.57 km2) |
• Land | 37.36 sq mi (96.76 km2) |
• Water | 1.08 sq mi (2.81 km2) |
Elevation | 480 ft (146 m) |
Population | |
• City | 206,518 (US: 114th) |
• Density | 5,527.78/sq mi (2,134.27/km2) |
• Urban | 482,085 (US: 87th) |
• Urban density | 1,852.1/sq mi (715.1/km2) |
• Metro | 862,111 (US: US: 69th) |
Time zone | UTC−5 (Eastern) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC−4 (Eastern) |
ZIP Codes | 01601–01610, 01612–01615, 01653–01655 |
Area code | 508 / 774 |
FIPS code | 25-82000 |
GNIS feature ID | 0617867 |
Website | www |
Worcester is a city of Worcester County in the state of Massachusetts in the United States. It is the county seat of Worcester County. About 206,000 people were living in Worcester as of 2020.
Worcester is 40 miles from Boston, Massachusetts and 40 miles from Springfield, Massachusetts—right in the middle.
In 1774, the first public reading of the United States Declaration of Independence in New England took place in Worcester.
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Footnotes | ‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties |
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All-America City Award Hall of Fame (1949–2021) | |
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