1. Back Bay

“the Charles River on the North; Arlington Street to Park Square on the East; Columbus Avenue to the ‘New York, New Haven, & Hartford’ right-of-way (south of Stuart Street and Copley Place), Huntington Avenue, Dalton Street, and the Massachusetts Turnpike on the South; and Charlesgate East on the West.”

2. Beacon Hill

The Beacon Hill area is located just north of the Boston Common and the Boston Public Garden and is bounded generally by Beacon Street on the south, Somerset Street on the east, Cambridge Street to the north and Storrow Drive along the riverfront of the Charles River Esplanade to the west. The block bounded by Beacon, Tremont and Park Streets is included as well, as is the Boston Common itself.

3. South End

The South End lies south of the Back Bay, northwest of South Boston, northeast of Roxbury, north of Dorchester, and southwest of Bay Village. Despite the name, it is not directly south of the center of downtown Boston.

4. Dorchster

North Dorchester includes the portion north of Quincy Street, East Street and Freeport Street. Dorchester Avenue is the major neighborhood spine, running in a south-north line through all of Dorchester from Lower Mills to downtown Boston.

5. Charlestown

Charlestown is located north of Boston proper on a peninsula extending southeastward between the Charles River and the Mystic River.

6. Mission Hill

The neighborhood is roughly bounded by Columbus Avenue and the Boston neighborhood of Roxbury to the east, Longwood Avenue to the northeast and the Olmsted designed Riverway/Jamaicaway and the town of Brookline to the west.

7. South Boston

Located south of the Fort Point Channel and abutting Dorchester Bay.

8. Cambridge

9. East Boston

Is separated from the rest of the city by Boston Harbor and bordered by Winthrop, Revere, and the Chelsea Creek.

10. Roxbury

Roxbury generally ends at Columbus Avenue to the north and Lenox Street to the east.