Springfield, MA is a city in Western New England, and the seat of
Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States. Springfield sits on the eastern
bank of the Connecticut River near its confluence with three rivers; the
western Westfield River, the eastern Chicopee River, and the eastern Mill
River. As of the 2010 Census, the city's population was 153,060. Metropolitan
Springfield, as one of two metropolitan areas in Massachusetts (the other being
Greater Boston), had an estimated population of 698,903 as of 2009.
The first Springfield in the New World, it is the largest city in Western
New England, and the