Kiari R.Kinnie Thompson Elementary

Power Point 5th Grade

Cities and towns

New York's population centers reflect early transportation routes, with railroad paralleling the Erie Canal .

The largest city in the state and the most populous city in the United States is New York City, which comprises five counties, the Bronx, New York , Queens, Brooklyn, and Richmond .New

York City is home to more than two-fifths of the state's population. The ten largest cities are:

1. New York City (8,143,197)

2. Buffalo(279,745)

3. Rochester (211,091)

4. Yonkers (196,425)

5. Syracuse (141,683)

6. Albany (93,523)

7. New Rochelle (72,967)

8. Mount Vernon (67,924)

9. Schenectady(61,280)

10. Utica(59,336)

About New YorkNew York is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States, and is the country's third most populous state. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, and shares a water border with Rhode Island as well as an international border with the Canadiann provinces of Quebec and Ontario.

Population

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In 2006, New York was the

largest state in population after

California and Texas,with an

estimated population of

19,306,183.This represents an

increase of 1.7% since the year

2000.It includes a natural

increase since the last census

of 601,779 people

Geography

New York covers 54,556 square miles and ranks as 27th largest state by size.The Great Appalachian Valley dominates eastern New York, while Lake Champlain is the chief northern feature of the valley, which also includes the Hudson River flowing southward to the Atlantic Ocean. The rugged Adirondack Mountains, with vast tracts of wilderness,lie west of the valley. Most of the southern part of the state is on the Allegheny plateau,which rises from the southeast to the Catskill Mountains.

State ParksNew York has many state parks and two major forest preserves. 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 Georgia Perkins Marsh’s Man and Nature, published in 1864.

Weather New York ranks 46th among the 50 states in the amount

of greenhouse gases generated per person.This efficiency is primarily due to the state’s relatively higher rate of mass transit use.

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