Canton is a town in Norfolk County, in the Boston-Cambridge-Quincy metro area. So named after an early citizen estimated that its location was precisely antipodal to Canton, China The latitude of Canton is 42.158N. The longitude is -71.145W. It is in the Eastern Standard time zone. Elevation is 85 feet. The population, at the time of the 2000 census, was 20,775.
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