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The BosWash (also referred to as Bosnywash, Boshington, the Northeast Corridor, the BosWash Corridor, or simply the Northeast megalopolis) is the name for a group of metropolitan areas in the northeastern United States, extending from Boston, Massachusetts, to Washington, D.C., including Providence, Rhode Island; Hartford, New Haven and Stamford, Connecticut; New York City, New York; Newark, New Jersey; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Wilmington, Delaware; and Baltimore, Maryland. The geographic trend was first identified in French geographer Jean Gottmann's book Megalopolis: The Urbanized Northeastern Seaboard of the United States (1961). The cities are also linked economically, and by transportation and communications.

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Population-density map of BosWash


According to Gottmann, BosWash "provides the whole of America with so many essential services, of the sort a community used to obtain in its 'downtown' section, that it may well deserve the nickname of Main Street of the nation." He also identified two other megalopolises in the U.S., ChiPitts and SanSan, but these terms did not achieve wide use.

Beyond Megalopolis by Virginia Tech's Metropolitan Institute, an attempt to update Gottmann's work with current trends, defines a Northeast megapolitan area extending beyond Boston and Washington past Portland, Maine and Richmond, Virginia, as one of ten such areas in the United States.

Extent

BosWash extends from extreme southern Maine and New Hampshire south to Northern Virginia, which includes a large portion of suburban Washington DC, including Alexandria and Arlington. It has a reported population of 44 million, or 16 percent of the population of the United States (about 0.7 percent of the world population), three World Cities (New York, Washington, and Boston), and four of the world's 70 largest metropolitan areas (New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and Baltimore-Washington).

The region is home to the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ, the White House and United States Capitol, the UN Headquarters, the headquarters of ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX and the New York Times Company as well as the Washington Post, and six of the eight Ivy League Universities. The headquarters of many major financial companies such as State Street, Citigroup, and Fidelity are located within the region. The region accounts for 1/5 of the economic activity in the US and it is home to 58 of the Fortune Global 500 companies.

Amtrak's fastest train, the Acela Express, runs on the Northeast Corridor, an electrified rail line extending the length of the BosWash area. Interstate 95, one of the most vital highways in the country, is also a major transportation route for the BosWash area.

List of major cities from north to south

The major cities in the BosWash megalopolis include the following (listed by state north to south, listed alphabetically within each state):
* Not always included in Boswash, usually considered part of the South)

Several small and medium-sized metropolitan areas near the southwestern end of the corridor, including Harrisburg, Lancaster, and York, Pennsylvania and Frederick and Hagerstown, Maryland are also sometimes considered part of the region, though opinions vary from geographer to geographer as to which cities are included or excluded.

Population statistics

Combined Statistical Area
(CSA)		 State(s) Estimate
2006		 Census
2000		 Growth
1990s
New York-Newark-BridgeportNY-NJ-CT-PA21,976,22421,361,7978.4%
Washington-Baltimore-N. VirginiaDC-MD-VA-WV8,211,2137,572,64713.1%
Boston-Worcester-ManchesterMA-NH-RI7,465,6347,298,6956.9%
Philadelphia-Camden-VinelandPA-NJ-DE-MD6,382,7146,207,2234.7%
Combined44,035,78542,440,362

Included or neighboring MSAs not in a CSA

Rank
(US)		 Metropolitan Statistical Area
(MSA)		 State
(s)		 Estimate
2004/7/1
43RichmondVA1,194,008
44Hartford-W. Hartford-E. HartfordCT1,184,564
59Albany-Schenectady-TroyNY845,269
63Allentown - Bethlehem - EastonPA-NJ779,816
70SpringfieldMA687,973
86Scranton--Wilkes-BarrePA551,531
91Harrisburg - CarlislePA519,331
96Portland-S. Portland-BiddefordME510,791
99LancasterPA487,332
117York-HanoverPA401,613
121ReadingPA391,640
164Atlantic CityNJ268,693
Norwich-New LondonCT265,918
183BarnstableMA228,683
216CharlottesvilleVA180,901
254BangorME148,196
268DoverDE138,752
275PittsfieldMA132,486
288LebanonPA124,489
311HarrisonburgVA111,284
327Lewiston-AuburnME107,022
Ocean CityNJ100,263
Combined non-CSA MSAs12,224,733
Combined CSAs and MSAs53,871,278

References

  • Gottmann, Jean (1961), Megalopolis: the Urbanized Northeastern Seaboard of the United States. ISBN 0-527-02819-3
  • Gottmann, Jean (1987), Megalopolis Revisted — 25 Years Later. ISBN 0-913749-04-4
  • Swatridge, L.A. (1971), The Bosnywash megalopolis: A region of great cities. ISBN 0-07-092795-2

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