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Framingham is a city in Middlesex County, settled in 1650 and incorporated as a town on June 26, 1700, and it became a city on January 1, 2018, when its Home Rule Charter took effect after voters approved it on April 4, 2017.

Before becoming a city, Framingham was the largest town by population in Massachusetts.

The 2020 census recorded a population of 72,362 in Framingham, with 27,555 households and 29,033 housing units, making it the 14th most populous municipality in Massachusetts.

The city covers 26.51 square miles in total, including 25.04 square miles of land, and 99.1 percent of its residents lived in urban areas in 2020.

Yvonne M. Spicer was inaugurated as Framingham's first mayor in 2018, becoming the first popularly elected African-American female mayor in Massachusetts.

Framingham is known for the Framingham Heart Study, a long-running cardiovascular research project, and for Dennison Manufacturing, which was founded in the city in 1844.

Framingham has one of the largest Brazilian American populations in the United States, with a large segment arriving since the 1980s from the single city of Governador Valadares.

The area was first inhabited by the Nipmuc people, and the first European settler was John Stone, who arrived in 1647.

Harmony Grove in Framingham hosted abolitionist rallies each Independence Day from 1854 to 1865, and at the 1854 rally William Lloyd Garrison burned copies of the Fugitive Slave Law and the United States Constitution.

Shoppers World opened in 1951 in Framingham's Golden Triangle as the second open-air shopping mall in the United States and the first east of the Mississippi River, and the TJX Companies have their world headquarters in Framingham.