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Geography Massachusetts is the?7th smallest?state in the United States with an area of 10,555 square miles . Massachusetts is the most populous New England state. Boston is the largest city, at the inmost point of?Massachusetts Bay, the mouth of the?Charles River（查尔斯河）. Economy and Education -----Economy Sectors vital to the Massachusetts economy include higher education,?biotechnology, finance, health care, and tourism . In recent years tourism has played an ever-important role in the states economy, with Boston and?Cape Cod?being the leading destinations. Other popular tourist destinations include Salem, Plymouth, and the Berkshires. * 马萨诸塞州 ----Rebecca 马萨诸塞州州旗 State emblem Mayflower Chickadee黑顶山雀 American elm 美洲榆 Climate Massachusetts has a humid continental climate. Summers are warm, while winters are relatively cold。 Massachusetts is home to the countrys oldest public elementary school, oldest high school,?oldest boarding school, oldest college (Harvard University, founded in 1636) and oldest womens college. ---Education According to this granddaddy of the college rankings, roughly five of the top 40 research universities and six of the top 40 liberal arts colleges reside in this state that contains only 2% of the U.S. population. The Most Famous schools: Harvard university, MIT（Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Salem Witch Trials A witch craze swept the small Puritan community of Salem Village, Massachusetts in 1692. It began when a group of girls gathered in the evenings in the home of Reverend Parris to listen to stories told by one of his slaves, Tituba. They also played fortune-telling games, which were strictly forbidden by the Puritans. One night, while trying to see the faces of their future husbands in an egg white dropped in a glass of water, one girl believed she saw the shape of a coffin.Soon after, the girls began acting strangely, leading the Puritan community to suspect that the girls were victims of wi