Metro New York
Metro New York or Greater New York, also called the Tri-State Area, is the massive metropolitan area around New York City in the states of New York, Connecticut, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. It is the biggest and wealthiest metro area in the United States.
Essential Destinations
Top destinations: Gateway National Recreation Area.
Gateway National Recreation Area
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Places of Interest
Highlights: LaGuardia Airport and Museum of the Moving Image.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Long Island City and Astoria and Jackson Heights.
Long Island City and Astoria
Long Island City is a neighborhood within the New York City borough of Queens.
Jackson Heights
Jackson Heights is a neighborhood in Queens, a borough of New York City.
Metro New York
- Type: Economic region with 19,000,000 residents
- Description: most populous metropolitan area in the United States
- Also known as: “Area metropolitana de Nueva York”, “Area metropolitana de Nueva York-Norte de Nueva Jersey-Long Island”, “Área metropolitana de Nueva York-Norte de Nueva Jersey-Long Island”, “Böyük Nyu-York”, “Grande New York”, “Grande Nova York”, “Greater New York”, “Metropola regiono de Novjorko”, “Metropolitní oblast New York”, “New York City metropolitan area”, “New York metropolitan area”, “New York storbyområde”, “New York-Newark-Jersey City metro area”, “New York-Newark-Jersey City metropolitan area”, “New York-Newark-Jersey City metropolitan statistical area”, “New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ Metro Area”, “New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ Metropolitan Statistical Area”, “New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ MSA”, “New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA Metro Area”, “New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA Metropolitan Statistical Area”, “New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island”, “New Yorkin suurkaupunkialue”, “Região Metropolitana de Nova Iorque-Newark”, “Região Metropolitana de Nova York”, “Tri States Area”, “Tri States Region”, “Tri-state area”, “Tri-state Area”, “Tri-State Region”, “Veľký New York”, “Vùng đô thị Thành phố New York”, “Большой Нью-Йорк”, “Метрополис Ню Йорк”, “Нью-Ёрская аглямэрацыя”, “Нью-Йоркский метрополитенский статистический ареал”, “그레이터 뉴욕”, “그레이터뉴욕”, “뉴욕 메트로폴리탄 지구”, “뉴욕 메트로폴리탄 지역”, “ニューヨーク圏”, “ニューヨーク大都市圏”, “大紐約都會區”, “大纽约地区”, “紐約大都會區”, and “纽约大都会区”
- Categories: metropolitan statistical area and megacity
- Location: Queens, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.7577° or 40° 45′ 28″ north
Longitude
-73.9133° or 73° 54′ 48″ west
Population
19,000,000
Elevation
56 feet (17 metres)
Open location code
87G8Q35P+3M
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yiddish—“Metro New York” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “منطقة نيويورك الحضرية”
- Arabic: “منطقة نيويورك الكبرى”
- Asturian: “Área metropolitana de Nueva York”
- Azerbaijani: “Nyu-York aqlomerasiya regionu”
- Balinese: “Wawengkon métropolitan New York”
- Basque: “New Yorkeko metropolitar eremua”
- Belarusian: “Нью-Ёрская мэтрапольная тэрыторыя”
- Bengali: “নিউ ইয়র্ক মহানগর অঞ্চল”
- Bengali: “নিউ ইয়র্ক মহানগর এলাকা”
- Bulgarian: “Голям Ню Йорк”
- Catalan: “àrea metropolitana de Nova York”
- Catalan: “Àrea metropolitana de Nova York”
- Chinese: “紐約都會區”
- Chinese: “纽约都会区”
- Czech: “Newyorská metropolitní oblast”
- Danish: “New Yorks storbyområde”
- Dutch: “New York”
- Esperanto: “Metropola areo de Novjorko”
- Estonian: “New Yorgi suurlinnapiirkond”
- Finnish: “New Yorkin metropolialue”
- French: “Grand New York”
- Galician: “área metropolitana de Nova York”
- German: “Metropolregion New York”
- German: “New York Metropolitan Area”
- Greek: “Μητροπολιτική περιοχή της Νέας Υόρκης”
- Hakka Chinese: “Néu-yok Tû-fi-khî”
- Hakka Chinese: “New York Tû-fi-khî”
- Hebrew: “המטרופולין של ניו יורק”
- Hebrew: “מטרופולין ניו יורק”
- Hebrew: “ניו יורק רבתי”
- Indonesian: “Kawasan metropolitan New York”
- Indonesian: “Wilayah metropolitan New York”
- Irish: “Mórcheantar Nua-Eabhrac”
- Italian: “area metropolitana di New York”
- Italian: “Area metropolitana di New York”
- Japanese: “ニューヨーク都市圏”
- Korean: “뉴욕 도시권”
- Malay: “Kawasan metropolitan New York”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Storbyområdet New York”
- Norwegian: “Storbyområdet New York”
- Ossetian: “Нью-Йорчы агломераци”
- Persian: “منطقه کلانشهری نیویورک”
- Polish: “obszar metropolitalny Nowego Jorku”
- Portuguese: “Região Metropolitana de Nova Iorque”
- Romanian: “zona metropolitană New York”
- Russian: “Нью-Йоркская агломерация”
- Scots: “New York metropolitan area”
- Scots: “New York metropolitan aurie”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Njujorško metropolitansko područje”
- Slovak: “Metropolitná oblasť New York”
- Slovenian: “metropolitansko območje New York”
- Spanish: “Área metropolitana de Nueva York”
- Swahili: “Eneo la jiji la New York”
- Swedish: “New Yorks storstadsregion”
- Tagalog: “Kalakhang Bagong York”
- Tatar: “Нью-Йорк агломерациясе”
- Turkish: “New York metropolitan alanı”
- Turkish: “New York metropoliten alanı”
- Ukrainian: “Нью-йоркська агломерація”
- Ukrainian: “Нью-Йоркська агломерація”
- Urdu: “نیو یارک میٹروپولیٹن علاقہ”
- Vietnamese: “Vùng đô thị New York”
- Welsh: “ardal fetropolitan Efrog Newydd”
- Western Panjabi: “نیو یارک میٹروپولیٹن علاقہ”
- Yiddish: “ניו יארק מעטראפאליטען שטח”
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