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Coastal Massachusetts and Rhode Island is located between Vermont and New Hampshire to the north and the Atlantic Ocean and Long Island Sound to the east and south. The region includes the entire shoreline of Massachusetts plus inland from Boston on the south, all of Rhode Island, and the southeastern tip of Connecticut.
The greater Boston area takes up a large portion of the Massachusetts coast. Historic cities and towns such as Salem, Cambridge, Concord and Lexington, and Plymouth, dot the Massachusetts coastline. Reaching out to sea and then back again is Cape Cod. Considered a peninsula, Cape Cod is actually completely surrounded by water. At its narrowest point it's just one mile wide, while its widest point is 20 miles across.
Seven miles south of Cape Cod is Martha's Vineyard, which measures just nine miles wide and 23 miles long, and has a total of 124 miles of coastline. Farther out to sea is the island of Nantucket. Nantucket means “faraway island” or “land far out to sea” in the Native American language, and this quiet get-away is 30 miles away from Cape Cod.
South of Massachusetts is Rhode Island, the smallest state in the U.S.A. Despite its name, the state of Rhode Island isn't an island. However, with 400 miles of coastline there is a reason why it's called the “Ocean State.” And there does actually exist an island within Narragansett Bay with the name Rhode Island - it's otherwise called Aquidneck Island, and it's where Newport is located.
The region extends into southwest Connecticut, to include just the easternmost points along the Long Island Sound. It ends basically at the New London - Orient Point Fry, and includes the two casinos Foxwoods Resort and the Mohegan Sun, and the historic Mystic Harbor.
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