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The Boston–Washington or Northeast Megalopolis is the heavily urbanized area of the United States stretching from the southern suburbs of Washington, D.C. to the northern suburbs of Boston, MA. As of 2000, the region supported over 17% of the US population on less than 2% of the nation’s soil, with a population density of 931.3 people/mi2, compared to the US average of 80.5/mi2.[1] French geographer Jean Gottmann coined the term “Megalopolis” to describe a massive urban region in his 1961 book Megalopolis: The Urbanized Northeastern Seaboard of the United States, his landmark study of the region. His conclusion was that the various cities contained in the region – most especially Washington, D.C., Baltimore, MD, Philadelphia, PA, New York City, NY, and Boston, MA – are, while discrete and independent, uniquely tied to each other through the intermeshing of their suburban zones, acting in some ways as a unified super-city: a megalopolis. Since the publication of Gottmann’s book, the concept has gained prominence in both popular and academic media.