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Want to know a little bit more about New York but only have two minutes? Take our two minute tour of the Empire State, the eleventh state in the United State...
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Mar 3, 2018 · This US States learning video for kids explores facts about New York! The State of New York is also called the Empire State. Learn about New York City, Alban...
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Feb 26, 2020 · Facts about New York for Kids | New York for Kids Watch this educational video to find out what makes this state so special. Here are some facts that you wil...
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- Location and Size
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New York is located in the northeastern United States, in the Mid-Atlantic Census Bureau division. New York covers an area of 54,556 square miles (141,299 km2) making it the 27th largest state by total area (but 30th by land area). The state borders six U.S. states: Pennsylvania and New Jersey to the south, and Connecticut, Rhode Island (across Lon...
New York is part of the Marcellus Shale, a gas-rich rock formation which also extends across Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
New York lies upon the portion of the Appalachian Mountains where the mountains generally assume the character of hills and finally sink to a level of the lowlands that surround the great depression filled by Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River. Three distinct mountain masses can be identified in the state. The most easterly of these ranges—a c...
Most of Upstate New York is classified as humid continental in the Köppen climate classification system, while Downstate has a warmer humid subtropical climate. Winter temperatures are below freezing on average in most of the state during January and February but are above freezing along the Atlantic coast. Between June and September, summer-like c...
The river system of the state has two general divisions. The first is the streams tributary to the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River. The second are those tributaries that flow in a general southerly direction. The watershed divide that separates these two systems extends in an irregular line eastward from Lake Erie, through the southern tier ...
New York has many state parks and two major forest preserves. The Adirondack Park, roughly the size of the state of Vermont and the largest state park in the United States, was established in 1892 and given state constitutional protection in 1894. The thinking that led to the creation of the park first appeared in George Perkins Marsh's Man and Nat...
—New York City is the most populous city in the United States, with around 8.5 million residents. You can look down from the 86th floor of the Empire State Building, climb 377 steps to the Statue of Liberty’s crown, and tour Ellis Island, where over 12 million immigrants entered the United States between 1892 and 1924.
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23. New York Geography. The geography of the New York state is very diverse. Farms, forests, mountains, rivers, and lakes are dominant. The Adirondack Park of the New York state is larger than any other U.S. National Park in the conterminous United States (the adjoining 48 states of the US and Washington, D.C.).
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Aug 9, 2024 · The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ) is a joint venture between the states of New York and New Jersey and authorized by the U.S. Congress, established in 1921 through an interstate compact, that oversees much of the regional transportation infrastructure, including bridges, tunnels, airports, and seaports, within the geographical jurisdiction of the Port of New York and New ...
