The Philippines (/ËfÉªláµ»piËnz/; Filipino: Pilipinas [ËpÉªlÉªËpinÉs]), officially the Republic of the Philippines (Filipino: Republika ng Pilipinas), is a sovereign island country in Southeast Asia situated in the western Pacific Ocean.
Suffolk County is included in the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Boston, Massachusetts is incorporated 194 years to the day after Massachusetts is founded. Massachusetts is one of the original 13 colonies which fought the British for American independence. It is located in the Northeast and much of Massachusetts borders the Atlantic Ocean. Boston is now the largest city, by population, in Massachusetts. Boston played a key role in the American War of Independence, by providing morale, militia, supplies. On this day March 19th, in 1822, the City of Boston is incorporated. Previously it had been the Town of Boston. Boston was founded in 1930 by Puritans, not to be confused with the Pilgrims who made their way to America in 1606/1607 on Plymouth Rock.