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Wide angle lens view looking north over the Charles River, with the Back Bay in the foreground and Cambridge and MIT in the distance, downtown Boston is far right; The largest city in New England, Boston is considered the unofficial economic and cultural center of the entire New England region. The city, which had an estimated population of 596,763 in 2006, lies at the center of the Cambridge-Boston-Quincy metropolitan area-the 11th-largest metropolitan area (5th largest CSA) in the U.S., with a population of 4.4 million. Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (accessed 1/30/2008)