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Plymouth County
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county in Massachusetts, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Massachusetts
- Founded
- June 2, 1685
- Seat
- Plymouth and Brockton
- Largest city
- Brockton
- Total
- 1,093 sq mi (2,830 km )
- Land
- 659 sq mi (1,710 km )
- Water
- 434 sq mi (1,120 km ) 40%
- Estimate 2024
- 546,829
- Density
- 806.1/sq mi (311.2/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( Eastern )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 ( EDT )
- Congressional districts
- 4th , 8th , 9th
- Website
- www .plymouthcountyma .gov
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Plymouth
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Massachusetts
- Contains
- Pembroke
- Capital
- Plymouth
- Population
- 530819
- Area
- 2832
- Shares border with
- Dukes County
- Official website
- www.plymouthcounty-ma.gov
- Image
- ScituateMA MenOfKentCemetery FirstChurchSite.jpg
- Households
- 190355
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- category of associated people
- Category:People from Plymouth County, Massachusetts
- different from
- Plymouth County
- water as percent of area
- 40
- native label
- Plymouth County
- Commons category
- Plymouth County, Massachusetts
- topic's main category
- Category:Plymouth County, Massachusetts
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Plymouth County, Massachusetts
- inception
- 1685-00-00
- per capita income
- 45378
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Encyclopedic overview
Cranberry Bogs in Plymouth County, September 24, 2022. The cranberries (bright pink in the image) are ready for harvest. Plymouth County is a county in the U.S. state of Massachusetts, south of Boston. As of the 2020 census, the population was 530,819. Its county seats are Plymouth and Brockton. In 1685, the county was created by the Plymouth General Court, the legislature of Plymouth Colony, predating its annexation by the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Plymouth County is part of the Boston–Cambridge–Newton, MA–NH Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Plymouth County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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