Hudson County
Hudson County is the smallest and most urban county in northeastern New Jersey on two peninsulas between the Hudson, Hackensack, and Passaic rivers. It has, while being in the midst of the New York City metropolitan area, a distinct history and character from…| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Jersey City
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Jersey City is New Jersey's second-largest city. Jersey City sits in Hudson County in the northeastern section of the state, across the Hudson from its older and bigger cousin, New York City and south of Hoboken.
Hoboken
Hoboken is a small city on the Hudson River in northeastern New Jersey. Once known only as the birthplace of baseball and crooner Frank Sinatra and the site of Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken has become a party town, rich in bars and clubs, and a bedroom community for young, mostly twenty-something professionals who work across the river in New York City…
Bayonne
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Bayonne is a city of 72,000 people in New Jersey. It is home to Cape Liberty Cruise Port. The city is not a usual tourist destination for daytrippers from New York City, but it does have the authenticity of a suburban town with a relatively low-density, often tree-lined urban feel that harkens back to the times before gentrification.
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Union City
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Union City is a city in Hudson County, New Jersey. Union City is a small city, roughly 1.283 square miles. It is bordered by Weehawken to the east, Jersey City to the south, North Bergen to the west and north, and West New York to the north.
Harrison
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Harrison is a town in the western part of Hudson County in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It is part of the New York metropolitan area. It is a suburb of the nearby city of Newark, and is located 8 miles from New York City.
Secaucus
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Secaucus is a town in Hudson County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the town's population was 22,181, an increase of 5,917 from the 2010 census count of 16,264, which in turn reflected an increase of 333 from the 15,931 counted in the 2000 census.
Weehawken
Weehawken is a town of 15,000 people on the Hudson River in northeastern New Jersey. Despite having a high population density and a location at the heart of the New York metroplitan area, Weehawken has a small-town feel, comprised of close knit neighborhoods.
Hudson County
- Type: County with 634,000 residents
- Description: county in New Jersey, United States
- Also known as: “Hudson”, “Hudson County, New Jersey”, and “Hudson County, NJ”
- Neighbors: Bergen County, Essex County, New York City, and Union County
- Categories: county of New Jersey and locality
- Location: Gateway, New Jersey, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude of center
40.7382° or 40° 44′ 17″ northLongitude of center
-74.0551° or 74° 3′ 18″ westPopulation
634,000Elevation
30 feet (9 metres)OpenStreetMap ID
node 316973303OpenStreetMap feature
place=county
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Western Panjabi—“Hudson County” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Hudson County”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة هدسون”
- Armenian: “Հուդզոն շրջան”
- Asturian: “condáu de Hudson”
- Azerbaijani: “Hadson”
- Balinese: “County Hudson, New Jersey”
- Balinese: “County Hudson”
- Basque: “Hudson konderria”
- Bavarian: “Hudson County, New Jersey”
- Bavarian: “Hudson County”
- Belarusian: “акруга Хадсан”
- Belarusian: “Гадзан”
- Belarusian: “Гудзан”
- Belarusian: “Хадсан (акруга)”
- Belarusian: “Хадсан”
- Bishnupriya: “হাডসন কাউন্টি, নিউ জার্সি”
- Bishnupriya: “হাডসন কাউন্টি”
- Bulgarian: “Хъдсън”
- Catalan: “comtat de Hudson”
- Catalan: “Comtat de Hudson”
- Cebuano: “Hudson County”
- Chechen: “Хадсон (гуо, Нью-Джерси)”
- Chechen: “Хадсон”
- Chinese: “Hudson Kūn”
- Chinese: “哈德孙县（郡）”
- Chinese: “哈德逊县”
- Chinese: “哈德遜縣”
- Chinese: “哈德遜郡”
- Danish: “Hudson County”
- Dutch: “Hudson County”
- Esperanto: “kantono Hudson”
- Esperanto: “Kantono Hudson”
- Estonian: “Hudsoni maakond”
- Finnish: “Hudsonin piirikunta”
- French: “Comte de Hudson”
- French: “comté de Hudson”
- French: “Comté de Hudson”
- Georgian: “ჰადსონის ოლქი”
- German: “Hudson County”
- Gilaki: “هادسن ٚ شأرستان (نيۊجرسي)”
- Gilaki: “هادسن ٚ شأرستان”
- Greek: “κομητεία Χάντσον”
- Hebrew: “האדסון קאונטי”
- Hebrew: “מחוז האדסון”
- Hebrew: “מחוז הדסון”
- Hungarian: “Hudson megye”
- Irish: “Contae Hudson”
- Italian: “contea di Hudson”
- Italian: “Contea di Hudson”
- Italian: “Hudson County”
- Japanese: “ハドソン郡”
- Korean: “허드슨군”
- Low German: “Hudson County”
- Mazanderani: “هادسن شهرستان (نیوجرسی)”
- Mazanderani: “هادسن شهرستان”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Hudson Gông”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Hudson Kūn”
- Neapolitan: “Contea Hudson”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hudson County”
- Norwegian: “Hudson County”
- Persian: “شهرستان هادسن”
- Persian: “شهرستان هادسون، نیوجرسی”
- Persian: “شهرستان هادسون”
- Polish: “Hrabstwo Hudson”
- Portuguese: “Condado de Hudson”
- Romanian: “Comitatul Hudson, New Jersey”
- Romanian: “Comitatul Hudson”
- Russian: “Гудзон”
- Russian: “Хадсон”
- Sardinian: “contea de Hudson”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Hudson County”
- Serbian: “Округ Хадсон”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Hudson County, New Jersey”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Hudson County”
- Slovenian: “Hudson County”
- Slovenian: “Okrožje Hudson”
- Spanish: “Condado de Hudson”
- Spanish: “Hudson County New Jersey”
- Spanish: “Hudson County, New Jersey”
- Spanish: “Hudson”
- Swedish: “Hudson County, New Jersey”
- Swedish: “Hudson County”
- Tatar: “Хадсон (округ, Нью-Джерси)”
- Tatar: “Хадсон”
- Tumbuka: “Hudson County”
- Turkish: “Hudson County, N.J.”
- Turkish: “Hudson County, New Jersey”
- Turkish: “Hudson County, NJ”
- Turkish: “Hudson County”
- Turkish: “Hudson ilçesi, N.J.”
- Turkish: “Hudson ilçesi, New Jersey”
- Turkish: “Hudson ilçesi, NJ”
- Turkish: “Hudson ilçesi”
- Ukrainian: “Гудзон”
- Urdu: “ہڈسن کاؤنٹی، نیو جرسی”
- Urdu: “ہڈسن کاؤنٹی”
- Venetian: “contea de Hudson”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Hudson, New Jersey”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Hudson, Tân Jersey”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Hudson”
- Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Hudson, New Jersey”
- Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Hudson”
- Welsh: “Hudson County, New Jersey”
- Welsh: “Hudson County”
- Western Armenian: “Հուտսըն Շրջան”
- Western Panjabi: “ہڈسن کاؤنٹی”
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