Individual #Massachusetts__Bay_State__Old_Colony__MA  a state in New England; one of the original 13 colonies
  instance of:  American_state
  part:  Boston  Cambridge.Massachusetts  Concord.Massachusetts  Gloucester.Massachusetts  Lexington.Massachusetts  Medford.Massachusetts  Worcester.Massachusetts  Cape_Ann  Cape_Cod  Plymouth  Salem.Massachusetts  Berkshires  Charles_River  Housatonic_River  Merrimack_River
  location of:  Pittsfield  Springfield
  part of:  New_England  a region of northeastern United States comprising Maine and New Hampshire and Vermont and Massachusetts and Rhode Island and Connecticut
     part of:  USA__United_States_of_America__United_States__America__US__U.S.__U.S.A.  North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776
        part of:  North_America  a continent (the third largest) in the western hemisphere connected to South America by the Isthmus of Panama
           part of:  northern_hemisphere  the hemisphere north of the equator
           part of:  western_hemisphere__westernhemisphere__occident__New_World  the hemisphere that includes North and South America
           part of:  the_Americas__America  North and South America

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