Long Island
Long Island stretches eastward from New York City in the Metro New York region. The island is approximately 115 mi long from Brooklyn and Queens at the western end, to Montauk at the easternmost point.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Long Beach and Glen Cove.
Long Beach
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Long Beach is an oceanfront city in Nassau County, New York, United States. It takes up a central section of the Long Beach Barrier Island, which is the westernmost of the outer barrier islands off Long Island's South Shore.
Glen Cove
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Glen Cove is one of two cities in Nassau County on Long Island, in New York. It is surrounded by the Long Island Sound to the north and Oyster Bay to the east, south, and west.
Mineola
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Mineola is a village and the county seat of Nassau County, on Long Island, New York, United States. The population was 20,800 at the time of the 2020 census.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Suffolk County and Nassau County.
Suffolk County
Suffolk County is the easternmost county in the U.S. state of New York, constituting the eastern two-thirds of Long Island. It is bordered to its west by Nassau County, to its east by Gardiners Bay and the open Atlantic Ocean, to its north by Long Island Sound, and to its south by the Atlantic Ocean.
Nassau County
Nassau County is a suburban county located on Long Island, immediately to the east of New York City, bordering the Long Island Sound on the north and the open Atlantic Ocean to the south.
Long Island
- Type: Island with 7,840,000 residents
- Description: island in New York, United States of America
- Also known as: “‘t Lang Eylandt”, “Gawanasegeh”, “Insula Ionga”, “Island of Shells”, “Isle Longue”, “Isola Longa”, “Isola Lunga”, “La Longue Isle”, “Long Eiland”, “Long Eylant”, “Long Island, New York”, “Long Island, NY”, “Long Isle”, “Ma-to-wacks”, “Manati”, “Mat-o-wacks”, “Matouacks”, “Matouwac”, “Matouwacs”, “Matouwax”, “Matowa”, “Matowacks”, “Matowcas”, “Mattanwake”, “Meilowacks”, “Meitowacks”, “Meitowax”, “Menatey”, “Mer-i-to-wacks”, “Metoac”, “Nassau Island”, “Pamanouk”, “Pamunke”, “Pau-man-ack”, “Paumanacke”, “Paumanok”, “Pommanocc”, “Seawanhacky”, “Sewan Hacky”, “Sewan-hacky”, “Sewanhacking”, “Sewanhacky”, “Sewanhaka”, “Siyneu Island”, “Suan Hacky”, “Suanhacky”, and “Suwanhackingh”
- Neighbors: Connecticut
- Category: moraine
- Location: Suffolk County, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Yiddish—“Long Island” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Long Island”
- Arabic: “لونغ آيلند”
- Armenian: “Լոնգ Այլենդ”
- Asturian: “Long Island”
- Azerbaijani: “Lonq-Aylend”
- Balinese: “Long Island”
- Basque: “Long Island”
- Bavarian: “Long Island”
- Belarusian: “Доўгі Востраў”
- Belarusian: “Лонг-Айленд”
- Belarusian: “Лонг-Айлэнд”
- Bengali: “লং আইল্যান্ড”
- Breton: “Long Island (New York)”
- Breton: “Long Island”
- Bulgarian: “Лонг Айлънд”
- Burmese: “လောင်းအိုင်စလန်”
- Catalan: “Long Island”
- Cebuano: “Long Island”
- Chinese: “長島”
- Croatian: “Long Island”
- Czech: “Long Island”
- Danish: “Long Island”
- Dutch: “Long Island”
- Egyptian Arabic: “لونج آيلند”
- Esperanto: “Longinsulo”
- Estonian: “Long Island”
- Faroese: “Long Island”
- Finnish: “Long Island”
- French: “Long Island”
- Galician: “Long Island”
- Georgian: “ლონგ-აილენდი”
- German: “Long Island”
- Greek: “Λονγκ Άιλαντ”
- Hebrew: “לונג איילנד”
- Hungarian: “Long Island”
- Icelandic: “Long Island”
- Ido: “Long Island”
- Indonesian: “Long Island”
- Interlingua: “Long Island”
- Interlingue: “Long Island”
- Irish: “Long Island”
- Irish: “Oileán Fada”
- Italian: “Long Island”
- Japanese: “ロング・アイランド”
- Japanese: “ロングアイランド”
- Kabyle: “Long Island”
- Korean: “롱아일랜드”
- Latin: “Insula Longa”
- Latvian: “Longailenda”
- Lithuanian: “Long Ailandas”
- Lithuanian: “Long Ailendas”
- Lombard: “Long Island”
- Luxembourgish: “Long Island”
- Macedonian: “Лонг Ајленд”
- Malay: “Long Island”
- Mingrelian: “ლონგ-აილენდი”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Long Island”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Long Island”
- Norwegian: “Long Island”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Long Island”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Langīeg in þǣm Nīwan Eoforwīce”
- Persian: “لانگ آیلند”
- Persian: “لانگآیلند”
- Polish: “Long Island”
- Portuguese: “Long Island”
- Romanian: “Long Island”
- Russian: “Лонг-Айленд”
- Scots: “Long Island”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Eilean Fada”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Long Island”
- Serbian: “Лонг Ајланд”
- Serbian: “Лонг Ајленд”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Long Island”
- Slovak: “Long Island”
- Slovenian: “Long Island”
- Spanish: “Long Island (Nueva York)”
- Spanish: “Long Island”
- Swahili: “Long Island”
- Swedish: “Long Island”
- Tagalog: “Pulo ng Long”
- Tagalog: “Pulong Long”
- Tamil: “நீள் தீவு”
- Tatar: “Лоң-Айленд”
- Thai: “เกาะลอง”
- Tosk Albanian: “Long Island”
- Turkish: “Long Island”
- Ukrainian: “Лонг-Айленд”
- Urdu: “لانگ آئلینڈ”
- Urdu: “لانگ آئی لینڈ”
- Uzbek: “Long-aylend”
- Uzbek: “Long-Aylend”
- Vietnamese: “đảo Long”
- Vietnamese: “Long Island”
- Welsh: “Long Island”
- Western Frisian: “Long Island”
- Western Panjabi: “لانگ آئیلینڈ”
- Wu Chinese: “长岛”
- Yakut: “Лоҥ Айленд”
- Yiddish: “לאנג איילענד”
- “Long Island”
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