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.| 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 Hempstead and North Hempstead.
Hempstead
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Hempstead is the most populous town in America, with a whopping 700,000 residents, located on the South Shore of Nassau County, New York. The town is highly urbanized and fragmented, containing 22 semi-autonomous villages within its boundaries, and forty other neighborhoods. Garden City, encompassing the "Nassau Hub" region, has its own article.
North Hempstead
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North Hempstead is one of three towns in Nassau County, on Long Island, in New York, United States. The population was 237,639 at the time of the 2020 census. It is the 7th most populous city or town in New York.
Oyster Bay
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Oyster Bay is one of three towns in Nassau County, on Long Island, New York. The town of Oyster Bay comprises a large portion of eastern Nassau County and includes a slew of villages and other communities.
Garden City
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Garden City is a large area in the heart of Nassau County, on Long Island, in New York, consisting of the Village of Garden City, the Village of Stewart Manor, and three hamlets: East Garden City, Garden City Park, and Garden City South.
Massapequa
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Massapequa is a hamlet and census-designated place in the Town of Oyster Bay in Nassau County, on the South Shore of Long Island, in New York, United States. The population of the CDP was 21,355 at the time of the 2020 census.
Roslyn
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Roslyn is a community in Nassau County, on Long Island, in New York. Anchored by the Village of Roslyn, the community takes immense pride in its rich history, and terrific schools.
Farmingdale
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Farmingdale is a village in New York. Officially, it is part of Oyster Bay, but this town with just over 8,000 inhabitants is a place of its own.
Flower Hill
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Flower Hill is an incorporated village in Nassau County, on Long Island, in New York. It is a village which takes immense pride in its rich history, high-achieving schools, bucolic and tree-lined streets, and in being one of the most tight-knit, friendly, and welcoming communities on Long Island.
Bethpage
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Bethpage is a hamlet on Long Island within the Town of Oyster Bay in Nassau County, New York. Bethpage is located in the middle of Nassau County, New York, and the surrounding villages and hamlets consist of Levittown, Farmingdale, Plainview, Old Bethpage, and Hicksville.
Plainview
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Plainview is a hamlet and census-designated place located in the town of Oyster Bay in east central Nassau County, New York, United States. The population of the CDP as of 2020 was 27,100.
Bayville
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Bayville is a village located in the Town of Oyster Bay in Nassau County, on the North Shore of Long Island, in New York, United States. The population was 7,748 at the time of the 2020 census.
South Oyster Bay
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South Oyster Bay is the portion of the Town of Oyster Bay roughly south of the Long Island Expressway, in Nassau County, New York. Its most prominent communities are Hicksville, Plainview, Bethpage, Farmingdale, and Massapequa.
Nassau County
- Type: County with 1,400,000 residents
- Description: county in New York, United States
- Also known as: “County of Nassau”, “Nassau”, “Nassau County, New York”, and “Nassau County, NY”
- Neighbors: New York City, Suffolk County, and Westchester County
- Categories: county of New York and locality
- Location: New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude of center
40.7353° or 40° 44′ 7″ northLongitude of center
-73.5616° or 73° 33′ 42″ westPopulation
1,400,000Elevation
79 feet (24 metres)OpenStreetMap ID
node 9845620148OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Western Panjabi—“Nassau County” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Nassau County”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة ناسو”
- Armenian: “Նասաու շրջան”
- Asturian: “condáu de Nassau”
- Azerbaijani: “Nasso”
- Basque: “Nassau konderria”
- Bavarian: “Nassau County, New York”
- Bavarian: “Nassau County”
- Belarusian: “акруга Насау”
- Belarusian: “акруга Насо”
- Belarusian: “Насау”
- Belarusian: “Насаў”
- Belarusian: “Насо”
- Bishnupriya: “নাসাউ কাউন্টি, নিউ ইয়র্ক”
- Bishnupriya: “নাসাউ কাউন্টি”
- Bulgarian: “Насау”
- Catalan: “comtat de Nassau”
- Catalan: “Comtat de Nassau”
- Cebuano: “Nassau County”
- Central Kurdish: “ناساو کاونتی”
- Chechen: “Нассо (гуо, Нью-Йорк)”
- Chechen: “Нассо”
- Chinese: “Nassau Kūn”
- Chinese: “拿骚县”
- Chinese: “拿騷縣”
- Chinese: “納蘇縣”
- Chinese: “纳苏县”
- Croatian: “Nassau, okrug”
- Croatian: “Nassau”
- Croatian: “Okrug Nassau, New York”
- Czech: “Nassau County”
- Danish: “Nassau County”
- Dutch: “Nassau County”
- Esperanto: “kantono Nasaŭo”
- Esperanto: “kantono Nassau”
- Esperanto: “Kantono Nassau”
- Esperanto: “Nassau County”
- Estonian: “Nassau maakond”
- Finnish: “Nassaun piirikunta”
- French: “comté de Nassau”
- French: “Comté de Nassau”
- French: “Nassau County”
- Galician: “condado de Nassau”
- Georgian: “ნასაუს ოლქი”
- German: “Nassau County”
- Gilaki: “نساو شأرستان (نيۊیؤرک)”
- Gilaki: “نساو شأرستان”
- Greek: “κομητεία Νάσαου”
- Hebrew: “מחוז נסאו”
- Hungarian: “Nassau megye”
- Indonesian: “Nassau County, New York”
- Indonesian: “Nassau County”
- Irish: “Contae Nassau, Nua-Eabhrac”
- Irish: “Contae Nassau”
- Italian: “contea di Nassau”
- Italian: “Contea di Nassau”
- Italian: “Nassau County”
- Japanese: “ナッソー・カウンティ”
- Japanese: “ナッソー郡”
- Korean: “나소군”
- Latin: “Nassau Comitatus”
- Low German: “Nassau County”
- Luxembourgish: “Nassau County”
- Marathi: “नासाउ काउंटी”
- Mazanderani: “نساو شهرستان (نیویورک)”
- Mazanderani: “نساو شهرستان”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Nassau Gông”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Nassau Kūn”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nassau County”
- Norwegian: “Nassau County”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Nassau”
- Ossetian: “Нассау”
- Ossetian: “Нассо”
- Persian: “شهرستان ناساو، نیویورک”
- Persian: “شهرستان ناساو”
- Persian: “شهرستان نساو”
- Polish: “Hrabstwo Nassau”
- Portuguese: “condado de Nassau”
- Portuguese: “Condado de Nassau”
- Portuguese: “Nassau County”
- Romanian: “Comitatul Nassau, New York”
- Romanian: “Comitatul Nassau”
- Russian: “Нассау”
- Russian: “Нассо”
- Russian: “округ Нассау”
- Sardinian: “contea de Nassau”
- Serbian: “Округ Насо”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Nassau County, New York”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Nassau County”
- Sinhala: “නැසූ ප්රාන්තය, නිව්යෝර්ක්”
- Sinhala: “නැසූ ප්රාන්තය”
- Slovenian: “Nassau County”
- Slovenian: “Okrožje Nassau”
- South Azerbaijani: “ناساو بؤلگهسی، نیویورک”
- Spanish: “condado de Nassau”
- Spanish: “Condado de Nassau”
- Spanish: “Nassau County”
- Swedish: “Nassau County, New York”
- Swedish: “Nassau County”
- Tajik: “Нассо”
- Tajik: “Шаҳристони Нассо”
- Tatar: “Нассо (округ, Нью-Йорк)”
- Tatar: “Нассо”
- Tumbuka: “Nassau”
- Turkish: “Nassau County, N.Y.”
- Turkish: “Nassau County, New York”
- Turkish: “Nassau County, NY”
- Turkish: “Nassau County”
- Turkish: “Nassau ilçesi, N.Y.”
- Turkish: “Nassau ilçesi, New York”
- Turkish: “Nassau ilçesi, NY”
- Turkish: “Nassau ilçesi”
- Ukrainian: “Нассау”
- Urdu: “نساؤ کاؤنٹی، نیویارک”
- Urdu: “نساؤ کاؤنٹی”
- Venetian: “contea de Nassau”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Nassau, New York”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Nassau, Nữu Ước”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Nassau”
- Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Nassau, New York”
- Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Nassau”
- Welsh: “Nassau County, Efrog Newydd”
- Welsh: “Nassau County”
- Western Panjabi: “نساؤ کاؤنٹی”
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