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The New York metropolitan area, broadly referred to as the Tri-State area and often also called Greater New York, is the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban landmass, [11][12][13] encompassing 4,669.0 sq mi (12,093 km 2). [14] The New York metropolitan area is one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world, the largest ...
The boroughs of New York City are the five major governmental districts that compose New York City. The boroughs are the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island. Each borough is coextensive with a respective county of the State of New York: The Bronx is Bronx County, Brooklyn is Kings County, Manhattan is New York County, Queens ...
Greater New York or Greater New York City may refer to: The statistical New York metropolitan area consisting of New York City and surrounding counties of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania. The so-called City of Greater New York, a common though unofficial term for the City of New York used in the years after the 1898 ...
The five boroughs of New York City. New York City is located on the coast of the Northeastern United States at the mouth of the Hudson River in southeastern New York state. It is located in the New York–New Jersey Harbor Estuary, the centerpiece of which is the New York Harbor, whose deep waters and sheltered bays helped the city grow in significance as a trading city.
New York is the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the U.S. by both population and urban area. With more than 20.1 million people in its metropolitan statistical area [ 20 ] and 23.5 million in its combined statistical area as of 2020, New ...
The City of Greater New York was the consolidation of the City of New York with Brooklyn, western Queens County, and Staten Island, [1][2] which took effect on January 1, 1898. [3] New York had already annexed the Bronx (west of the Bronx River in 1874, [4][5] east of the Bronx River in 1895), so the consolidated city sprawled across five ...
The U.S. state of New York currently has 34 statistical areas that have been delineated by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). On July 21, 2023, the OMB delineated seven combined statistical areas, 13 metropolitan statistical areas and 14 micropolitan statistical areas in New York. [1] As of 2023, the largest of these is the New York ...
The Capital District, also known as the Capital Region, is the metropolitan area surrounding Albany, the capital of the U.S. state of New York. The Capital District was first settled by the Dutch in the early 17th century and came under English control in 1664. Albany has been the permanent capital of the state of New York since 1797.