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Place Name
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Revere
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Pronunciation
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re-VIR
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Place Status (Type)
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city
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Population
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42,786 (1990)
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Location
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Suffolk County, Massachusetts (MA), United States, North America
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Latitude
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42°25'N
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Longitude
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71°00'W
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Revere
(re-VIR), city (1990 pop. 42,786), Suffolk
co., E Mass., a residential suburb of Boston, on Massachusetts Bay;
42°25'N 71°00'W. Revere Beach is a popular swimming beach. Much of
Point of Pines, formerly a prosperous summer colony at the N end of
Revere Beach, has been built up with apartment and housing complexes.
Horatio Alger b. here. Settled c.1630, set off from Chelsea
and named for Paul Revere 1871, inc. as a city 1914.
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