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The state of New York is a state of superlatives. Of course everyone knows the Big Apple, , and it's certainly a premier travel destination, but the state is so much more than just one famous metropolis.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include New York City and Buffalo.

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New York is a global center for media, entertainment, art, fashion, research, finance, and trade. The bustling, cosmopolitan heart of the 4th largest metropolis in the world and by far the most populous city in the United States, New York has long been a key entry point and a defining city for the nation.

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The largest city in New York State's , is a city full of surprises. Though is sometimes the butt of jokes about chicken wings, its long-suffering sports teams, and the mountains of snow under which it is supposedly buried each…

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Wall Street. Madison Avenue. 34th Street. Broadway. Times Square. is so well known that even the names of its streets have become iconic and understood the world over.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Downstate New York and Niagara Frontier.

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is a region that generally consists of the southeastern and more densely populated portion of the U.S. state of New York, in contrast to , which comprises a larger geographic area with much sparser population distribution.

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The region of New York State consists of 5 counties near the of Erie and Ontario, just across the Niagara River from the province of and its region. , the state's second-largest city, and…

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Between New York City's suburbs and Upstate New York lies a transitional area, a place where many New Yorkers get away from it all to relax. West of the Hudson River lie the Catskills, a largely rural and wild area of mountains and valleys; along the river, on the other hand lie a number of Hudson Valley communities with rolling hills, an area that resembles New England in many respects.

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Wine and water define the , a region of New York state south of . Eleven elegantly elongated bodies of water arrayed across 80 mi of rolling countryside have produced one of the top wine regions in the country, the East Coast answer to California's .

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The of New York State is the geographical region that includes the counties of New York State west of the and along the northern border of .

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The Central region of New York is a crossroads, dominated by the state's fifth-largest city, , and the Mohawk River that flows eastward through this region.

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The , also known as the Capital Region, is the metropolitan area surrounding , the capital of the U.S. state of New York. The was first settled by the Dutch in the early 17th century and came under English control in 1664.

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The Adirondack Park is both the largest and the first government-protected park in the . It covers a vast expanse—bigger than —of rugged, thickly wooded, mountainous terrain in northeast New York State.

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North of the lies the , the northern border of New York. Although more populated than the mountains to the south, this region is still dominated by the large areas between cities.

New York

Latitude of center
43.1562° or 43° 9′ 22″ north
Longitude of center
-75.845° or 75° 50′ 42″ west
Population
19,700,000
Elevation
922 feet (281 metres)
Abbreviation
“NY”
Open­Street­Map ID
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Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
5128638
Wiki­data ID
Q1384
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“New York” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “New York”
  • Afrikaans: “Nieu-York”
  • Afrikaans: “Staat New York”
  • Afrikaans: “Staat Nieu-York”
  • Albanian: “New York”
  • Albanian: “Nju Jork”
  • Amharic: “ኒው ዮርክ”
  • Angika: “न्यू यॉर्क”
  • Arabic: “نيو يورك”
  • Arabic: “نيويورك”
  • Arabic: “ولاية نيويورك”
  • Aragonese: “Nueva York”
  • Armenian: “Նյու Յորք”
  • Arpitan: “New York”
  • Arpitan: “Novèla York”
  • Asturian: “Estáu de Nueva York”
  • Asturian: “Nueva York”
  • Aymara: “New York suyu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Nyu-York ştatı”
  • Azerbaijani: “Nyu-York”
  • Balinese: “New York”
  • Bashkir: “Нью-Йорк”
  • Basque: “New York”
  • Batak Toba: “New York”
  • Bavarian: “New York Stoot”
  • Bavarian: “New York”
  • Bavarian: “Stoot New York”
  • Belarusian: “Нью-Ёрк”
  • Belarusian: “штат Нью-Ёрк”
  • Bengali: “নিউ ইয়র্ক”
  • Bengali: “নিউইয়র্ক”
  • Betawi: “Niu-Yorek (negeri di AS)”
  • Betawi: “Niu-Yorek”
  • Bhojpuri: “न्हु यर्क”
  • Bishnupriya: “নিউ ইয়র্ক”
  • Bislama: “Niu York”
  • Bosnian: “New York”
  • Brahui: “Niú Yárk”
  • Breton: “New York”
  • Breton: “NY”
  • Breton: “stad Evrog Nevez”
  • Breton: “stad New York”
  • Breton: “Stad New York”
  • Bulgarian: “Ню Йорк”
  • Burmese: “နယူးယောက်ပြည်နယ်”
  • Catalan: “Estat de Nova York”
  • Catalan: “Nova York”
  • Cebuano: “New York”
  • Central Bikol: “Nueva York”
  • Central Kurdish: “نیویۆرک”
  • Chavacano: “Nueva York”
  • Chechen: “Нью-Йорк”
  • Cherokee: “ᎠᏤ ᏲᎩ”
  • Cherokee: “ᏄᏯᎩ”
  • Chinese: “New York”
  • Chinese: “NY”
  • Chinese: “紐約州”
  • Chinese: “纽约州 / 紐約州”
  • Chinese: “纽约州”
  • Chuvash: “Çĕнĕ Йорк”
  • Chuvash: “Нью-Йорк”
  • Cornish: “Stat Evrek Nowydh”
  • Corsican: “New York”
  • Corsican: “Nova York”
  • Corsican: “NY”
  • Corsican: “Statu di New York”
  • Corsican: “Statu di Nova York”
  • Corsican: “US-NY”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Nyu York”
  • Croatian: “New York”
  • Czech: “New York”
  • Czech: “State of New York”
  • Dagbani: “New York”
  • Danish: “New York”
  • Danish: “NY”
  • Dimli (individual language): “New York”
  • Dotyali: “न्यूयोर्क (राज्य)”
  • Dotyali: “न्यूयोर्क”
  • Dutch: “New York State”
  • Dutch: “New York”
  • Dutch: “NY”
  • Dutch: “NYS”
  • Eastern Mari: “Нью-Йорк”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نيو يورك”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ولاية نيويورك”
  • Esperanto: “Imperio-Ŝtato”
  • Esperanto: “Nov-Jorkio”
  • Esperanto: “Novjorkio”
  • Esperanto: “Ŝtato Nov-Jorkio”
  • Estonian: “New Yorgi osariik”
  • Ewe: “New York”
  • Faroese: “New York”
  • Fiji Hindi: “New York”
  • Fijian: “Niu Yoka”
  • Finnish: “New York”
  • French: “État de l’Empire”
  • French: “État de New York”
  • French: “New York (État)”
  • French: “New York”
  • French: “NY”
  • French: “NYS”
  • Gagauz: “New York”
  • Gagauz: “Nyu-York”
  • Galician: “Estado de Nova York”
  • Galician: “Nova York”
  • Galician: “NY”
  • Georgian: “ნიუ-იორკი”
  • Georgian: “ნიუ-იორკის შტატი”
  • German: “Empire State”
  • German: “New York (Bundesstaat)”
  • German: “New York Staat”
  • German: “New York State”
  • German: “New York”
  • German: “NY”
  • German: “Staat New York”
  • German: “State of New York”
  • German: “US-NY”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “New York”
  • Gilaki: “نيۊیؤرک”
  • Gothic: “𐌽𐌹𐌿 𐌹𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌺”
  • Gothic: “𐌽𐌹𐍅𐌹 𐌾𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌺”
  • Greek: “Νέα Υόρκη”
  • Greek: “Νιου Γιορκ”
  • Greek: “Πολιτεία της Νέας Υόρκης”
  • Guarani: “New York”
  • Guarani: “Pyahu Iork”
  • Gujarati: “ન્યુ યોર્ક”
  • Gujarati: “ન્યૂ યૉર્ક”
  • Haitian: “Nou Yòk”
  • Hakka Chinese: “New York”
  • Hausa: “New York”
  • Hawaiian: “Moku‘āina o Nuioka”
  • Hawaiian: “Nuioka”
  • Hebrew: “מדינת ניו יורק”
  • Hebrew: “ניו יורק”
  • Hindi: “न्यूयॉर्क”
  • Hungarian: “New York”
  • Iban: “New York”
  • Icelandic: “New York State”
  • Icelandic: “New York-fylki”
  • Ido: “Nova-York”
  • Igbo: “Nú Yọk”
  • Iloko: “New York”
  • Inari Sami: “New York”
  • Indonesian: “New York”
  • Interlingua: “New York”
  • Interlingue: “New York”
  • Inuktitut: “ᓂᐅ ᐃᐅᕐᒃ”
  • Inupiaq: “Nutaaq Yurkaq”
  • Inupiaq: “Tchiaq York”
  • Irish: “Nua-Eabhrac”
  • Italian: “New York (Stato)”
  • Italian: “New York State”
  • Italian: “New York”
  • Italian: “Nuova York”
  • Italian: “NY”
  • Italian: “State of New York”
  • Italian: “Stato di New York”
  • Italian: “Stato di Nuova York”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Nyuu Yaak Stiet”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Nyuu Yaak”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Siet a Nyuu Yaak”
  • Japanese: “ニュー・ヨーク州”
  • Japanese: “ニューヨーク”
  • Japanese: “ニューヨーク州”
  • Javanese: “New York”
  • Kabiyè: “Niwu Yɔrkɩ”
  • Kabyle: “New York”
  • Kalmyk: “Шин Йорк”
  • Kannada: “ನ್ಯೂ ಯಾರ್ಕ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Nyu york Shtati”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Nyu-York”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Нью-Йорк”
  • Kashmiri: “نِو یورٕک”
  • Kashubian: “Nowi Jork”
  • Kazakh: “Нью-Йорк”
  • Khmer: “ញូវយ៉ក”
  • Kirghiz: “Нью-Йорк (штат)”
  • Kirghiz: “Нью-Йорк”
  • Korean: “뉴요크 주”
  • Korean: “뉴욕 주”
  • Korean: “뉴욕”
  • Korean: “뉴욕주”
  • Kurdish: “New York”
  • Ladin: “New York”
  • Ladino: “Mueva York”
  • Lao: “ລັດນິວຢອກ”
  • Lao: “ລັດນີວຢອກ”
  • Latin: “Neo-Eboracum”
  • Latin: “Nova Eboraca”
  • Latin: “Novi Eboraci Civitas”
  • Latin: “Novum Eboracum”
  • Latvian: “Ņujorka”
  • Latvian: “Ņujorkas štats”
  • Ligurian: “Nêuvo York”
  • Limburgan: “New York”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “New York”
  • Literary Chinese: “紐約州”
  • Lithuanian: “Niujorkas”
  • Lithuanian: “Niujorko valstija”
  • Lojban: “niu,IORK”
  • Lojban: “niu”
  • Lombard: “New York”
  • Low German: “New York”
  • Low German: “‎Niej-York”
  • Low German: “Nyjork”
  • Luxembourgish: “New York”
  • Macedonian: “Њујорк”
  • Maithili: “न्यू योर्क”
  • Malagasy: “New York”
  • Malay: “New York”
  • Malayalam: “ന്യൂയോർക്ക്”
  • Maltese: “Istat ta‘ New York”
  • Maltese: “Istat ta’ New York”
  • Manipuri: “ꯅ꯭ꯌꯨ ꯌꯣꯔ꯭ꯛ (ꯂꯝꯈꯥꯢ)”
  • Manipuri: “ꯅ꯭ꯌꯨ ꯌꯣꯔ꯭ꯛ”
  • Manx: “York Noa”
  • Maori: “New York”
  • Maori: “Niu Ioka”
  • Marathi: “न्यू यॉर्क”
  • Mazanderani: “نیویورک ایالت”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “New York”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Niū-iók-ciŭ”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “New York”
  • Minangkabau: “New York”
  • Mingrelian: “ნიუ-იორკიშ შტატი”
  • Mongolian: “Нью-Йорк Муж Улс”
  • Mongolian: “Нью-Йорк”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “نيويورك”
  • Mossi: “New York”
  • N'Ko: “ߣ.ߦ.ߞ”
  • N'Ko: “ߣ.ߦ”
  • N'Ko: “ߣߌߦߥ ߦߐߙߞ ߞߊ߬ߝߏ”
  • N'Ko: “ߣߌߦߥ ߦߐߙߞ”
  • Nauru: “Niu Iok Tubwangit”
  • Navajo: “Kin Yótʼááh Deezʼá Hahoodzo”
  • Nepali: “न्युयोर्क”
  • Nepali: “न्यू योर्क”
  • Newari: “न्यु यर्क राज्य”
  • Newari: “न्यु यर्क”
  • Newari: “न्हु यर्क”
  • Northern Frisian: “New York”
  • Northern Luri: “نیویورک”
  • Northern Sami: “New York”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “New York (delstat)”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “New York”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Delstaten New York”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “New York State”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “New York”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “NY”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “NYS”
  • Norwegian: “New York State”
  • Norwegian: “New York”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “estat de Nava York”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “estat de Nòva York”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Nava York”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “New York”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Nòva York”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Nòva Yòrk”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Nuòva York”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “NY”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܢܝܘ ܝܘܪܩ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Nīwe Eoforwic”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Nīwe Eoforwīc”
  • Oriya: “ନିଉ ୟର୍କ”
  • Ossetian: “Нью-Йорк”
  • Pali: “न्हु यर्क”
  • Pampanga: “New York”
  • Panjabi: “ਨਿਊਯਾਰਕ (ਰਾਜ)”
  • Panjabi: “ਨਿਊਯਾਰਕ ਰਾਜ”
  • Panjabi: “ਨਿਊਯਾਰਕ”
  • Papiamento: “New York”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Nei Yarrick”
  • Persian: “نیویورک”
  • Pfaelzisch: “New York”
  • Pfaelzisch: “Nju Yoorg”
  • Picard: “Étot d’New York”
  • Picard: “Étot ed l’Impire”
  • Picard: “New York (Étot)”
  • Picard: “New York”
  • Picard: “NY”
  • Picard: “NYS”
  • Piemontese: “New York”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Nyuu York”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Stat o‘ Nyuu York”
  • Polish: “Nowy Jork”
  • Portuguese: “estado de Nova Iorque”
  • Portuguese: “Nova Iorque”
  • Portuguese: “Nova York”
  • Pushto: “نيويارک”
  • Quechua: “New York suyu”
  • Romanian: “New York (stat)”
  • Romanian: “New York”
  • Romanian: “NY”
  • Romansh: “New York”
  • Russia Buriat: “Нью-Йорк”
  • Russian: “Нью-Йорк (штат)”
  • Russian: “Нью-Йорк”
  • Russian: “штат Нью-Йорк”
  • Rusyn: “Ню Йорк (штат)”
  • Rusyn: “Ню Йорк”
  • Samoan: “Niu Ioka”
  • Samogitian: “Niojuorks”
  • Sanskrit: “न्यू यार्क्”
  • Sardinian: “Istadu de Noa York”
  • Sardinian: “New York”
  • Sardinian: “Noa York”
  • Sardinian: “NY”
  • Saterfriesisch: “New York”
  • Scots: “New York”
  • Scots: “NY”
  • Scots: “State o New York”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Eabhraig Nuadh”
  • Serbian: “Њујорк”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “New York”
  • Sicilian: “New York”
  • Sicilian: “Nova Jorca”
  • Sicilian: “Nova York”
  • Sicilian: “NY”
  • Silesian: “Nowy Jork”
  • Sindhi: “نيو يارڪ رياست”
  • Sindhi: “نيو يارڪ”
  • Sinhala: “නිව්යෝර්ක්”
  • Skolt Sami: “New York”
  • Slovak: “New York”
  • Slovenian: “New York”
  • Somali: “New York”
  • South Azerbaijani: “نیویورک ایالتی”
  • South Azerbaijani: “نیویورک”
  • Spanish: “Estado de Nueva York”
  • Spanish: “Estado del Imperio”
  • Spanish: “Nueva York (estado)”
  • Spanish: “Nueva York, Estados Unidos”
  • Spanish: “Nueva York”
  • Spanish: “NY”
  • Sundanese: “New York”
  • Swahili: “New York”
  • Swedish: “delstaten New York, USA”
  • Swedish: “New York State”
  • Swedish: “New York”
  • Swiss German: “New York”
  • Tagalog: “New York”
  • Tajik: “иёлати Ню-Йорк”
  • Tajik: “Ню-Йорк”
  • Talysh: “Nju-Jork”
  • Talysh: “Nyu-York”
  • Tamil: “நியூ யோர்க் மாநிலம்”
  • Tatar: “Нью-Йорк”
  • Telugu: “ఎన్ వై”
  • Telugu: “న్యూయార్క్ రాష్ట్రం”
  • Telugu: “న్యూయార్క్”
  • Thai: “รัฐนิวยอร์ก”
  • Tosk Albanian: “New York”
  • Turkish: “N. Y.”
  • Turkish: “N. York”
  • Turkish: “N.Y.”
  • Turkish: “New York eyaleti”
  • Turkish: “New York, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri”
  • Turkish: “New York”
  • Turkish: “NY”
  • Turkish: “State of New York”
  • Turkish: “US-NY”
  • Turkmen: “Nýu-Ýork ştaty”
  • Turkmen: “Nýu-Ýork”
  • Uighur: “Nyuyork Shitati”
  • Ukrainian: “NY”
  • Ukrainian: “Імперський штат”
  • Ukrainian: “Нью-Йорк (штат)”
  • Ukrainian: “Нью-Йорк”
  • Ukrainian: “штат Нью-Йорк”
  • Upper Sorbian: “New York”
  • Urdu: “نیو یارک”
  • Urdu: “نیویارک”
  • Uzbek: “Nyu York”
  • Uzbek: “Nyu-York”
  • Venetian: “New York”
  • Vietnamese: “New York”
  • Vietnamese: “Niu Oóc”
  • Vietnamese: “Nữu Ước”
  • Vietnamese: “Tiểu bang New York”
  • Vietnamese: “Tiểu bang Nữu Ước”
  • Vlaams: “New York”
  • Vlax Romani: “New York”
  • Volapük: “New York”
  • Waray (Philippines): “New York”
  • Welsh: “Efrog Newydd”
  • Western Armenian: “Նիւ Եորք”
  • Western Frisian: “New York”
  • Western Mari: “Нью-Йорк”
  • Western Panjabi: “نیو یارک”
  • Wu Chinese: “纽约州”
  • Xhosa: “INyuyokhu”
  • Yakut: “Нью Йорк, штат”
  • Yakut: “Нью Йорк”
  • Yiddish: “ניו יארק”
  • Yoruba: “New York”
  • Yue Chinese: “紐約州”
  • Zeeuws: “New York”
  • Zhuang: “Niujyoz”
  • Zulu: “New York Isifunda”
  • “ma Ni Jo”
  • “ma Niju Jo”
  • “ma Nujo”
  • “ma Nujoka”
  • “New York”
  • “Niojuorks”
  • “NY”
  • “US-NY”
  • “Yankwik York”
  • “Yankwik York Tlahtohkayotl”
  • “Yankwik York Tlatilantli”
  • “न्यू यॉर्क”

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