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State MASSACHUSETTS SPRINGFIELD (regional info) > Tourism & Travel Guide: Springfield COMFORT INN AND SUITES HAMPTON INN WEST SPRINGFIELD HOWARD JOHNSON EXPRESS SPRINGFIELD MA Marriott Springfield QUALITY INN WEST SPRINGFIELD SHERATON SPRINGFIELD HOTEL see related: West Springfield, MA Springfield is a city in, and the county seat of, Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States. In the 2000 census, the city population was 154,082. It is the third largest city in Massachusetts and fourth largest in New England (behind Boston, Worcester, and Providence). Springfield holds two nicknames — The City of Homes and The City of Firsts. Historically the first Springfield in the United States, it is also the largest city with the name of Springfield. It is also the largest city on the Connecticut River (and the largest city in Western Massachusetts and the Pioneer Valley). Springfield is notable as birthplace of Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, as well as the city in which James Naismith invented basketball. It is home to the Basketball Hall of Fame and the Springfield Falcons AHL hockey team. It also holds the western world's largest collection of Chinese cloisonné at the G.W. Vincent Smith Art Museum. The Springfield Metropolitan Statistical Area consists of three counties - Hampden, Hampshire, and Franklin. As of the 2000 census, the Springfield MSA had a population of 680,014 (though a July 1, 2007 estimate placed the population at 682,657). It is also part of a larger northeastern metropolitan area known as the Megalopolis. In an economic and cultural partnership with Hartford, Connecticut, the Springfield-Hartford region constitutes New England's Knowledge Corridor - the second-largest concentration of institutions of higher learning in New England, after Greater Boston. read full wikipedia reference about Springfield, Massachusetts OTHER POPULAR DESTINATIONS IN MASSACHUSETTSAndover Boston Burlington Cambridge Cape Cod Greater Area Danvers Hyannisport Lenox Marlborough Martha's Vineyard Milford Northampton Pittsfield Plymouth Provincetown Springfield Sturbridge Waltham West Springfield Westborough Woburn Worcester |
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