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According to Gottmann, BosWash "provides the whole of America with so many essential services, of the sort a community used to obtain in its 'downtown' section, that it may well deserve the nickname of Main Street of the nation." He also identified two other megalopolises in the U.S., ChiPitts and SanSan , but these terms did not achieve wide use. EXTENT BosWash extends from extreme southern Maine and New Hampshire south to Northern Virginia , which includes a large portion of suburban Washington DC, including Alexandria and Arlington . It has a reported population of 44 million, or 16 percent of the population of the United States (about 0.7 percent of the world population), three World Cities ( New York , Washington , and Boston) , and four of the World's 70 Largest Metropolitan Areas (New York, Boston, Philadelphia , and Baltimore-Washington ). The region is home to the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ , the White House and United States Capitol , the UN Headquarters , the headquarters of ABC , NBC , CBS , FOX and the New York Times Company as well as the '' Washington Post '', and six of the eight Ivy League Universities. The headquarters of many major financial companies such as State Street , Citigroup , and Fidelity are located within the region. The region accounts for 1/5 of the economic activity in the US and it is home to 58 of the Fortune Global 500 companies. Amtrak 's fastest train, the Acela Express , runs on the Northeast Corridor , an Electrified Rail Line extending the length of the BosWash area. Interstate 95 , one of the most vital highways in the country, is also a major transportation route for the BosWash area. The major cities in the BosWash megalopolis include the following (listed north to south): Included or neighboring MSAs not in a CSA REFERENCES
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