Central New York
The Central region of New York is a crossroads, dominated by the state's fifth-largest city, Syracuse, and the Mohawk River that flows eastward through this region.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Syracuse and Utica.
Syracuse
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Syracuse is a city in Central New York. With a population of 149,000 in city proper and 662,000 in its metro area, Syracuse is the fifth largest city in the state of New York, and the third largest in Upstate New York.
Utica
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Utica is the heart of the Mohawk Valley and the seat of Oneida County in Central New York State. Utica offers the charm of small-city living balanced with the cultural and ethnic diversity of an international urban center.
Rome
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Rome is a city in Oneida County, New York, United States, located in the central part of the state. The population was 32,127 at the 2020 census. Rome is one of two principal cities in the Utica–Rome Metropolitan Statistical Area, which lies in the "Leatherstocking Country" made famous by James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales, set in frontier days before the American Revolutionary War.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Oswego and Norwich.
Oswego
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Oswego is a small city in Central New York on the southeastern shore of Lake Ontario at the mouth of the Oswego River.
Norwich
Norwich is a city in and the county seat of Chenango County, New York, United States. Surrounded on all sides by the Town of Norwich, the city's name is taken from Norwich, England.
Cortland
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Cortland is a city and the county seat of Cortland County, New York, United States. Known as the Crown City, Cortland is in New York's Southern Tier region.
Oneonta
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Oneonta is a city in southern Otsego County, New York, United States. It is one of the northernmost cities of Appalachia. Oneonta is home to the State University of New York at Oneonta and Hartwick College.
Cooperstown
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Cooperstown, in Central New York, is known best for its role as the home of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. The villagers believe that Abner Doubleday invented baseball on a cow pasture within the village in 1839.
Little Falls
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Little Falls is a city in Herkimer County, New York, United States. The population was 4,605 at the time of the 2020 census, which is the second-smallest city population in the state, ahead of only the city of Sherrill.
Pulaski
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Pulaski is a village in Oswego County, New York, United States. The population was 2,186 at the 2020 census. The village is within the town of Richland, and lies between the eastern shore of Lake Ontario and the Tug Hill region.
Clinton
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Clinton is a village in Oneida County, New York, United States. The population was 1,942 at the 2010 census, declining to 1,683 in the 2020 census, 13% decline).
Bainbridge
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Bainbridge is a town in Chenango County, New York, United States. The population was 3,308 at the 2010 census. The Village of Bainbridge is located at the geographic center of the town.
Cazenovia
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Cazenovia is a town of 7,000 people in Madison County, in Central New York. The town has 27 sites and historic districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Herkimer
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Herkimer is a city in Central New York. This article also covers the nearby villages of Mohawk, Ilion, Frankfort, and Middleville.
Central New York
- Type: Region with 720,000 residents
- Description: the central region of upper New York State, United States
- Category: geographic location
- Location: New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Swedish—“Central New York” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “紐約州中部”
- Chinese: “纽约州中部”
- French: “Centre de l’État de New York”
- German: “Central New York”
- Hebrew: “מרכז מדינת ניו יורק”
- Italian: “New York centrale”
- Japanese: “セントラル・ニューヨーク”
- Persian: “نیویورک مرکزی”
- Russian: “Центральный Нью-Йорк”
- Swedish: “Central New York”
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