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arrow Landforms The coastline of Massachusetts and its offshore islands are remnants of the last Ice Age. That jagged, and rockbound Atlantic Ocean coastline is a mixture of bays, inlets, sandy beaches, odd-shaped islands - all ending in granite cliffs in the far north.

The Cape Cod National Seashore is a constantly shifting mass of dunes, battered relentlessly by the currents of the Atlantic Ocean.

Eastern Massachusetts is mostly flat, comprised of low hills, small lakes, streams and rivers. From the Boston area, the land rises gently into wooded, rolling hills, broken central by the Connecticut River Valley.

In the far west, the Appalachian Mountains stretch across the state on into Vermont and New Hampshire. The Berkshire Hills and Taconic Mountain Range are the major features. Mt. Greylock, at 3,487 ft., is the state's highest point.

There are over 4,000 miles of rivers within Massachusetts. Major rivers include the Connecticut, (the longest river in New England) the Merrimack in the northeast corner, and the Housatonic in the far west.

More than 1,000 small lakes and ponds are found within the state, with the largest being the Quabbin Reservoir (27,794 acres).

For a closer look at the topography of Massachusetts, view this map

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Land Statistics

arrow Land Area

(land) 7,840 sq miles

(water) 2,717 sq miles

(TOTAL) 10,557 sq miles

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arrow Horizontal Width 119 miles from the New York border, direcly east to Boston.

arrow Vertical Length 48 miles from the New Hampshire border, directly south to the Connecticut border.

Note: Lengths and widths are point-to-point, straight-line measurements from a Mercator map projection, and will vary some using other map projections

arrow Bordering States (5) Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, Vermont and New Hampshire

arrow Counties (14) map here!

arrow County (largest by population) Middlesex 1,473,298

arrow Geographic Center is located in the town of Rutland in Worcester County

arrow Highest Point Mt. Greylock, at 3,487 ft.

arrow Lowest Point Atlantic Ocean, 0 ft.

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arrow Mean Elevation 492 ft.

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