Editing Norfolk County, Massachusetts (section)

==Geography==
According to the [[U.S. Census Bureau]], the county has a total area of {{convert|444|sqmi}}, of which {{convert|396|sqmi}} is land and {{convert|48|sqmi}} (11%) is water.<ref name="GR1">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/docs/gazetteer/counties_list_25.txt|publisher=United States Census Bureau|access-date=September 16, 2014|date=August 22, 2012|title=2010 Census Gazetteer Files|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20140914175857/http://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/docs/gazetteer/counties_list_25.txt|archive-date=September 14, 2014}}</ref> It is the third-smallest county in Massachusetts by total area. The county is not completely [[Geographic contiguity|contiguous]]; the towns of [[Brookline, Massachusetts|Brookline]] and [[Cohasset, Massachusetts|Cohasset]] are each part of Norfolk County but are separated from the majority of Norfolk County (and each other) by either water or other counties. At the county's formation, [[Hingham, Massachusetts|Hingham]] and [[Hull, Massachusetts|Hull]] were to be part of it, but joined [[Plymouth County, Massachusetts|Plymouth County]] instead, leaving Cohasset as the initial [[exclave]] of Norfolk County and an [[enclave]] of Plymouth County. Brookline became the second exclave of Norfolk County in 1873 when the neighboring town of [[West Roxbury, Massachusetts|West Roxbury]] was annexed by [[Boston]] (thus leaving Norfolk County to join [[Suffolk County, Massachusetts|Suffolk County]]) and Brookline refused to be annexed by Boston after the [[Brookline-Boston annexation debate of 1873]].

===Adjacent counties===
*[[Middlesex County, Massachusetts|Middlesex County]] (northwest)
*[[Suffolk County, Massachusetts|Suffolk County]] (north)
*[[Plymouth County, Massachusetts|Plymouth County]] (southeast)
*[[Bristol County, Massachusetts|Bristol County]] (south)
*[[Providence County, Rhode Island]] (southwest)
*[[Worcester County, Massachusetts|Worcester County]] (west)

===National protected areas===
* [[Adams National Historical Park]]
* [[Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area]] (part)
* [[Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site]]
* [[John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site]]

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