New York
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The Ceety o New York
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Eik-name(s):
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Coordinates:
40°39′51″N
73°56′19″W
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40.66417°N 73.93861°W
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40.66417; -73.93861
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Kintra
| United States
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Historic Countries
| Ingland
,
Dutch Republic
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State
| New York
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Historic Colony
| Colony o New York
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Coonties
| Bronx
,
Kings
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New York
,
Queens
,
Richmond
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Settled
| 1624
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Incorporatit
| 1898
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Govrenment
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? Teep
| Mayor?Cooncil
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? Bodi
| New York City Council
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Mayor
| Eric Adams
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I
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Area
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Ceety
| 1,213.4 km
2
(468.48 sq mi)
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? Laund
| 783.8 km
2
(302.64 sq mi)
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? Water
| 429.5 km
2
(165.84 sq mi)
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Elevation
| 10 m (33 ft)
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Population
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Ceety
| 8,336,697 (
1st
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? Density
| 10,518.60/km
2
(27243.06/sq mi)
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Metro
| 18,897,109 (
1st
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CSA
| 22085649 (
1st
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Demonym(s)
| New Yorker
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Time zone
| UTC-5
(
EST
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? Summer (
DST
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| UTC-4
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EDT
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ZIP code(s)
| 100xx?104xx, 11004?05, 111xx?114xx, 116xx
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Area code(s)
| 212
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347
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646
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718
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917
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929
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FIPS code
| 36-51000
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GNIS
featur ID
| 975772
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Website
| www
.nyc
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New York Ceety
(Inglis:
New York City
) is the maist populous ceety in the
Unitit States
an the centre o the
New York metropolitan aurie
, at is ae o the maist populous metropolitan auries in the warld. New York Ceety haes a significant impact on global commerce, finance, media, cultur, airt, fashion, research, eddication, an entertainment. As host o the Unitit Naitions Heidquarters, it is an aa an important centre for internaitional affairs. The ceety is aften referred tae as
New York Ceety
or the
Ceety o New York
tae distinguish it frae the
state o New York
, at it is apairt o.
Locatit on a lairge naitural harbour on the Atlantic coast o the Northeastren Unitit States, the ceety consists o five boroughs: The Bronx,
Brooklyn
, Manhattan,
Queens
, an
Staten Island
. The ceety's 2009 estimatit population approached 8.4 million, an wi a land aurie o 305 square mile (790 km2), New York Ceety is the maist densely populatit major ceety in the Unitit States. The
New York metropolitan aurie
's population is the USA's mucklest, estimatit at 19.1 million fowk ower 6,720 square mile (17,400 km2). The Combined Statistical Aurie contained 22.2 million fowk as o 2009 Census estimates, an aa the mucklest in the Unitit States.
New York wis foondit as a commercial tredin post bi the
Dutch
in 1624. The dounset wis cawed New Amsterdam til 1664 whan the colony came unner
Inglis
control.
Mony destricts an laundmerks in the ceety hae acome weel kent tae ootsiders. The
Statue o Liberty
greetit millions o immigrants as thay came tae Americae in the late 19t an early 20t centuries. Times Square, iconifee'd as "The Crossroads o the Warld", is the brichtly illuminatit hub o the Broadway theatre destrict, ane o the warld's busiest pedestrian intersections, an a major centre o the warld's entertainment industry. Anchored bi
Wall Street
, in Lawer Manhattan, New York vies wi
Lunnon
as the financial caipital o the warld an is hame tae the
New York Stock Exchynge
, the warld's mucklest stock exchynge bi mercat caipitalisation o its leetit companies. The oreeginal Manhattan Chinatown attracts thrangs o tourists tae its bustlin sidewalks an retail establishments. Warld-cless schuils an varsities sic as Columbia Varsity, New York Varsity an Fordham Varsity an aa reside in New York Ceety.
New York Ceety haes ten
sister ceeties
recognisit bi Sister Cities International (SCI):
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Lik New York Ceety, aw except Beijing are the maist populous ceeties o thair respective kintras.
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Unlik New York Ceety, aw but Johannesburg serve as
de facto
or
de jure
naitional poleetical caipitals. New York an her sister ceeties are aw major economic centres, but few o the sister ceeties share New York's status as a major seaport.
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2011
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Eugene J. Sherman.
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2011
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the Mayor, New York City Office of (8 Januar 2010).
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2010
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2008
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Sam Roberts (5 Apryle 2012).
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2012
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2008
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"New York City Global Partners"
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"Sister Cities"
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2009
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Madrid city council webpage "Mapa Mundi de las ciudades hermanadas"
. Ayuntamiento de Madrid.
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It occupies pairt o the umwhile province o
Transvaal
.
- ↑
The Statesman's Yearbook
2003
, editit bi Barry Turner,
Palgrave Macmillan
(
Basingstoke
, London and New York), 2002,
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"Countries of the World",
Whitaker's Almanack
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