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Somerville

city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States
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Somerville is an organization that was founded in 1630 .

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Middlesex County[3]
  • Country: United States[4]
  • Head of government: Katjana Ballantyne[5]
  • Shares border with: Boston[6], Cambridge[7], Medford[8], Arlington[9]
  • Twinned administrative body: Gaeta[10], Ribeira Grande[11]
  • Postal code: 02143[12], 02144[13], 02145[14]
  • Part of: Massachusetts House of Representatives' 26th Middlesex district[15], Massachusetts House of Representatives' 27th Middlesex district[16], Massachusetts House of Representatives' 34th Middlesex district[17], Massachusetts Senate's Second Middlesex district[18], Massachusetts Senate's Middlesex, Suffolk, and Essex district[19]
  • Commons category: Somerville, Massachusetts[20]
  • Located in time zone: Eastern Time Zone[21]
  • Local dialing code: 617[22]
  • Inception: 1630[23]
  • Official website: https://somervillema.gov/[24]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Somerville, Massachusetts[25]
  • Population: 3540[26], 75,754[27], 81,045[28]
  • Office held by head of government: Mayor of Somerville, Massachusetts[29]
  • Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[30], Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[31]
  • Official name: Somerville[32]
  • Category for people born here: Q18329378[33]
  • Category for people who died here: Category:Deaths in Somerville, Massachusetts[34]
  • Number of households: 34,046[35]
  • Native label: Somerville[36]
  • Category of associated people: Category:People from Somerville, Massachusetts[37]
  • Elevation above sea level: 4 m[38]
  • Area: 10.936893 km²[39], 10.930287 km²[40]
  • History of topic: timeline of Somerville, Massachusetts, history[41]

Why It Matters

Somerville has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[42] Somerville is known by 20 alternative names across languages and contexts.[43]

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . somervillema.gov. Retrieved . somervillema.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . archINFORM. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  13. [15] ↑ . malegislature.gov. Retrieved . malegislature.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . malegislature.gov. Retrieved . malegislature.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . malegislature.gov. Retrieved . malegislature.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . sec.state.ma.us. Retrieved . sec.state.ma.us. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . malegislature.gov. Retrieved . malegislature.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . 2010 U.S. Gazetteer Files. Retrieved . data.census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . 2020 United States Census. Retrieved . data.census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . 2016–2020 American Community Survey. Retrieved . data.census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  34. [36] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  35. [37] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  36. [38] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  37. [39] ↑ . 2016 U.S. Gazetteer Files. wikidata.org.
  38. [40] ↑ . 2010 U.S. Gazetteer Files. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  39. [41] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [42] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [43] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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