Boston Metro Area

I am doing M.Sc in Geography and got an assignment to make project on Greater Boston topic looking for the details of Greater Boston. Will you please tell me details of components of the metropolitan area of Boston and lists of cities available here?

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Greater Boston is the area of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts surrounding the city of Boston, consisting most of the eastern third of Massachusetts, excluding the South Coast, Cape Cod & The Islands.

Metro Boston is usually reserved to signify the "inner core" surrounding the City of Boston, while "Greater Boston" usually at least overlaps the North and South Shores, as well as MetroWest and the Merrimack Valley.

The components of the metropolitan area with their estimated 2012 populations are listed below.

Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH Metropolitan Statistical Area (4,640,802)
Boston, MA Metropolitan Division (1,926,030)
Norfolk County, Massachusetts (681,845)
Plymouth County, Massachusetts (499,759)
Suffolk County, Massachusetts (744,426)
Cambridge-Newton-Framingham, MA Metropolitan Division (2,292,833)
Middlesex County, Massachusetts (1,537,215)
Essex County, Massachusetts (755,618)
Rockingham County-Strafford County, NH Metropolitan Division (421,939)
Rockingham County, New Hampshire (297,820)
Strafford County, New Hampshire (124,119)

Boston Metropolitan area:

Boston
Cambridge
Quincy
Worcester
Lowell
Providence

Some cities in Boston:

Boston
Worcester
Providence
Manchester
Lowell
Cambridge
New Bedford
Brockton
Quincy
Lynn
Fall River
Newton
Nashua
Warwick
Cranston
Somerville
Lawrence
Pawtucket
Framingham
Waltham