Cambridge i Massachusetts

Cambridge er ein by i Middlesex County i delstaten Massachusetts i USA. Byen ligg kloss inntil Boston, berre åtskild frå storbyen av elva Charles. I fylgje folketeljinga 2010, United States Census, hadde byen vel 105 000 ibuarar.

Rådhuset i Cambridge

Cambridge
Land	USA
Del av	Massachusetts House of Representatives' 24th Middlesex district, Massachusetts House of Representatives' 25th Middlesex district, Massachusetts House of Representatives' 26th Middlesex district, Massachusetts House of Representatives' 29th Middlesex district, Massachusetts House of Representatives' 8th Suffolk district, Massachusetts Senate's First Suffolk and Middlesex district, Massachusetts Senate's Middlesex and Suffolk district, Massachusetts Senate's Second Middlesex district, Massachusetts Senate's Middlesex, Suffolk, and Essex district
Areal	18,418614 km²
Folketal	118 403 (1. april 2020)[1]
Cambridge i Massachusetts 42.375°N 71.106111111111°W / 42.375; -71.106111111111
Wikimedia Commons: Cambridge, Massachusetts

Byen vart grunnlagd i 1630. Han har namn etter University of Cambridge i England, eit viktig senter for den puritanske teologien som byfedrene bekjende seg til. To av dei høgst renommerte universiteta i verda; Harvard University og Massachusetts Institute of Technology ligg i Cambridge.

Folk frå Cambridge

• Robert «Bob» Paine (1933–2016), zoolog