Named after Cambridge England, Cambridge is a county seat in Middlesex County. Cambridge has a unique mixture of cultural and social diversity and intellectual energy and technological innovation.
The city and its universities, particularly Harvard, have strong leftist traditions, with some even referring to the city as the PRC, or the "People's Republic of Cambridge" and Harvard as the Kremlin on the Charles. Cambridge is also known as "Boston's Left Bank".
Cambridge is also called the "City of Squares as most of its commercial districts are major street intersections known as squares.

Land area: 6.4 square miles

Latitude: 42.37 N

Longitude: 71.11 W

Population: 100,135 (as on July 2005)

Festivals

• Cambridge River Festival - June 17, 2006
• World Music/Crash Arts Festival - Sept. 30, 2006

Attractions

• Longfellow National Historic Site
• Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology
• Harvard University Art Museums
• MIT Museum, Margaret Hutchinson Compton Gallery