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The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. Most of the population of six point four million lives in the Boston metropolitan area. The eastern half of this relatively small state is mostly urban and suburban. The west is primarily rural, also with most of its population in urban enclaves. Massachusetts is the most populous of the six New England states and ranks third in overall population density among the fifty states. The first Europeans to settle New England landed in present-day Massachusetts. These settlers were primarily separatist non-conformists later called Pilgrims, and also Puritans from England seeking religious freedom. They founded Plymouth, Salem, and Boston, which soon became the hub of the region, then the Pioneer Valley along the Connecticut River where the state's best agricultural land was concentrated. A century and a half later, Massachusetts became known as the 'Cradle of Liberty' for the revolutionary ferment in Boston that lead to the war of the Thirteen Colonies for independence. Summers can bring thunderstorms, averaging around thirty days of thunderstorm activity per year. Massachusetts has had its share of destructive tornadoes, with the western part of the state slightly more vulnerable than coastal areas in the east. Massachusetts, like the entire United States eastern seaboard, is vulnerable to hurricanes. Although its location is farther east in the Atlantic Ocean than states farther south, Massachusetts has suffered a direct hit from a major hurricane three times since eighteen fifty-one, the same number of direct hits suffered by the southern Atlantic state of Georgia. More often hurricanes weakened to tropical storm strength pass through Massachusetts. In two thousand six Massachusetts had an estimated population of six million, four hundred thirty-seven, one hundred ninety-three, an increase of three thousand, and eight hundred twenty-six people from the previous year. This includes an increase since the last census of one hundred forty-nine thousand, nine hundred ninety-two people and a decrease from net migration of eighty-nine thousand, eight hundred twelve people out of the state.
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