The urbanized area surrounding Boston serves as the core of a definition used by the U.S. Census Bureau known as the New England city and town area. The set of towns containing the core urbanized area plus surrounding towns with strong social and economic ties to the core area is defined as the Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, MA-NH Metropolitan NECTA.[5] The Boston NECTA is further subdivided into several NECTA divisions, which are listed below. The Boston, Framingham, and Peabody NECTA divisions together correspond roughly to the MAPC area. The total population of the Boston NECTA was 4,540,941 (as of 2000).
* Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, MA NECTA Division (97 towns)
* Framingham, MA NECTA Division (13 towns)
* Peabody, MA NECTA Division (7 towns)
* Brockton-Bridgewater-Easton, MA NECTA Division (Old Colony region) (12 towns)
* Haverhill-North Andover-Amesbury, MA-NH NECTA Division (Merrimack Valley region) (25 towns)
* Lawrence-Methuen-Salem, MA-NH NECTA Division (part of Merrimack Valley region) (3 towns)
* Lowell-Billerica-Chelmsford, MA-NH NECTA Division (Northern Middlesex region) (9 towns)
* Nashua, NH-MA NECTA Division (21 towns)
* Taunton-Norton-Raynham, MA NECTA Division (part of Southeastern region) (6 towns)
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