Local Government
See also: List of municipalities in Massachusetts and List of Massachusetts countiesMassachusetts shares with the five other New England states, plus New York and New Jersey, a governmental structure known as the New England town. Only the southeastern third of the state has functioning county governments; in western, central, and northeastern Massachusetts, traditional county-level government was eliminated in the late 1990s.
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