BosWash (or Bosnywash , Boss-Wash Corridor ) indicates a group of urban of the North-East of the the United States, extending on 800 km between Boston and Washington and dependant surfaces as well economically as by the means of transport and of communication. This geographical component was identified by the geographer Jean Gottmann in 1961 in its book “Megalopolis” where it defines it as the first Mégalopole world.

General characteristics

BosWash includes/understands:

• Approximately 44 million inhabitants, is 16% of the population of the United States.
• Four of the 50 world first Mégapole S (New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Washington).
• the White House, the Capitole, the head office of UNO, the New York Stock Exchange .
• the head office of several major audio-visual groups (ABC, NBC, CBS) as well as NewYork Times and Washington Post.
• Six universities among the eights of the Ivy League , as well as the MIT.

The various cities of the megalopolis are extremely connected by transport, which they are truck drivers, air or railway (the Acela, line at high speed, traverses all the length of it).

Regional subsets

• the New England is a historically and culturally differentiated unit which occupies the septentrional part of Boswash and gathers six states: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont (see these articles).

• the area of New York: the New Yorkean agglomeration approach the 20 million inhabitants.
• the south of BosWash includes/understands the states of the New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Delaware with the Vallée of Delaware; Washington, cd. finishes this space in the south.

Principal cities

See too

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