Braintree, Massachusetts, is a Boston suburb in Norfolk County. Just ten miles south of Boston, it has an established residential character. At the crossroads of Route I-93 and Route 3, its 35,000 residents have easy access to the Greater Boston area, Cape Cod, and Boston and Logan International Airport.
Massachusetts is in the New England region of the U.S. It shares borders with the Atlantic Ocean, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York. Boston is the capital and the most populous city, with about 7,033,469 residents. It is the seventh-smallest state spanning only 10,555 square miles, 25.7% of which is water.