Alpha Cities / Alpha- tier / Boston
United States · a city of 650,000 in a metropolitan area of 4.9 million.
Tap a district on the plate or in the list below to read about it. Where available, switch to the real map for actual OpenStreetMap geography.
Six areas of need, drawn from what is actually true of Boston's districts, people and institutions — followed by two anchors prayed over every Alpha city.
Map zones are approximations drawn from district centres, not surveyed boundaries. Populations are rounded estimates for scale. For exact figures and geometry use the sources listed on the map layer above.