New York State
| New York State | |
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 Card with the State of New York in red. | |
| Nickname The Empire State in French : "The Empire State" | |
| Currency Excelsior ( Latin ) "Superior" | |
| Administration | |
| Country |  United States |
| Capital | Albany |
| Governor | Andrew Cuomo (D) |
| Union membership | 26 July 1788 (11th state) |
| Geography | |
| Area | 141 205 km 2 ( 27th ) |
| - Land | 122 409 km 2 |
| - Water (%) | 18 795 km 2 (13.3%) |
| Altitude | |
| - Max | 1629 m, Mount Marcy |
| - Average | 305 m |
| - Minimal | 0 m |
| Latitude | 40 29'40 "N 45 00'42" N 455 km |
| Longitude | 71 47'25 "W 79 45'54" W 530 km |
| Demography | |
| Population (2009) | 19,541,453 inhab. ( 3 ) |
| Density | 134 inhabitants / km |
| Largest city | New York |
| Language (s) Official | De jure: None De facto: English |
| Politics | |
| Senators | Charles Schumer (D) Kirsten Gillibrand (D) |
| Number of Representatives | 29 |
| Other information | |
| ISO 3166-2 | US-NY |
| Time Zone | -5 |
| Official site | http://www.ny.gov |
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The State of New York is the third state the most populous of the United States with 19 million inhabitants, fewer than Texas , and two times less than the California. It is located in the northeast of the country. Its shape is roughly that of an inverted pyramid, whose summit, the South would be the city of New York , on the Atlantic Ocean. North and west, the territory of the State widens and shares a long border with Canada (provinces of Ontario and Quebec ), much of which consists of lakes Erie and Ontario. To the east, the state is bordered by Vermont , the Massachusetts , the Connecticut , while in the south, it shares a border with New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
If the City of New York is located in the State of New York, much of its urban area is located in the neighboring states of Connecticut and New Jersey. By contrast, upstate New York is fairly rural.
This is the third richest state in the country after California and Texas , if it were an independent nation, it would be the 16th largest economy in the world, ahead of South Korea.
The only island of Manhattan produces about three quarters of the wealth of the State of New York. Then it would be the 20th largest economy, the same rank as the Swiss , if it were independent (for an area of only 52 square kilometers and 1.5 million inhabitants).
The state is somewhat larger (but much less dense) than the UK. From 1810 to 1960, he was the most populous state in the United States, a title he was delighted to Virginia and had abandoned in California.
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Origin of name
The name New York was given in 1664 in honor of the brother of King Charles II of England , the Duke of York, future Jacques II , when the area known as New Amsterdam was taken from the Dutch.
History
After exploring the Hudson River (Noort Rivier, "or" River of the North "in French, was the name of the river adopted by the Dutch cartographers until the surrender of the colony) of Henry Hudson sponsored by the Company Dutch East Indies in 1609 , the region between Virginia and what is now Massachusetts is known as the New Netherland (Nieuw Nederland in Dutch). If several private companies are Dutch trade at the mouth of the Hudson River and Delaware (Zuid Rivier "or" South River ") during the following decade (two wooden forts named Fort Nassau is built, one on Island Castle, established in 1611 and discontinued in 1618 in front of Fort Orange built later and the other on the south shore of Delaware) only with the consolidation of private interests into one company that colonization begin at the turn of the 1620s. The first European settlers in the colony from the Spanish Netherlands under contract with the Dutch West India Company. The Dutch established themselves at Fort Orange near present city of Albany in 1624. New Amsterdam (Nieuw Amsterdam "in Dutch) is located on the present site of Battery Park on the island of Manhattan , two years later, Peter Minuit as was decided to group the settlers of Fort Orange Fort Nassau (Delaware) and Connecticut ("Versch Rivier" at the time) and moving the settlers had been established on the island -aux-Noix (Noten Eyland, the current Governors Island ) to the mouth of the Hudson to consolidate the company and to avoid the aggression of Mohawks in the west of Fort Orange. For forty years, the Dutch built a settlement in character decidedly similar to the United Provinces in North America. When the British have appropriated in 1664 the colony, it was renamed New York in honor of the Duke of York , brother of Charles II , future king of England under the name of Jacques II , which included between 7,000 and 10,000 settlers. The area became a royal colony in 1685. New York is the eleventh state to ratify the Constitution in 1788.
In 1917, the State of New York grants the right to vote to women Geography Covering an area of 128,402 square kilometers, the State of New York was populated by 18,976,457 people in the census of 2000. Its capital is Albany. The State of New York contains the city of New York (New York City in English), most populous city in the U.S. and second most populous city in the world (25,933,312 inhabitants) after Tokyo . While the urban area of New York occupies the southern part of the State and the Big Island of Long Island , most of the territory (or Upstate, name gathering all the counties in the northern counties of Westchester and Rockland ) is dominated by large agricultural areas, forests, lakes and landforms. The main mountains are the Adirondacks , the Catskills and the Shawangunk Ridge. The main rivers are the Hudson , the Mohawk and St. Lawrence River , which forms the natural border with Ontario. The Niagara Falls (U.S. side) are a major tourist attractions in the state. The State of New York is divided into 62 counties (counties). The most populous county is that of Kings , corresponding to the borough of Brooklyn, one of five boroughs of New York City. It has 2,465,326 inhabitants (2000 census). The least populated county is that of Hamilton , wholly located in the Adirondack Mountains. It has only 5379 inhabitants and a density of only 1.21 persons per km. County of New York , corresponding to the borough of Manhattan, is the smallest county in the United States, with an area of only 59.5 sq. km. It is also the most densely populated U.S. 835.21 with 25 inhabitants per km. The State of New York is a strong tradition of liberal and Democratic. This leaning Democratic due mainly to the overwhelming dominance of the Liberal Democrats in the city of New York , while suburbs of these are slightly pro-Democratic, and the rest of the state slightly pro-Republican. The State of New York was a bastion of Republican until 1932 and the victory of Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt , also a former governor of the State, which won every presidential election. Since 1960 , the only Republican to have won the State of New York are Richard Nixon in 1972 and Ronald Reagan in 1980 and 1984. Since then no Republican candidate has won the state and during the 2004 presidential election , Democratic candidate John Kerry has won 58.37% against 40.08% of votes to the president and Republican candidate George W. Bush. During the 2008 presidential election , Barack Obama won 62% of the vote while John McCain gets only 37% of the votes. The state governor is Democrat Andrew Cuomo 's successor David Paterson. The latter, as lieutenant governor , had himself succeeded on 12 March 2008 to Eliot Spitzer , who resigned following his involvement in a prostitution scandal. David Paterson was the first governor of the state African-American and the first Governor blind U.S.. When the legislature in 2007 - 2008 , the Senate of the State of New York was dominated by 34 Democrats and 28 Republicans face while the House of Representatives had a majority of 108 Democrats against 42 Republicans. In the elections of 4 November 2008 , the Senate has changed for the first time in 40 years the Democratic side (32 Senate Democrats against 30 Republicans). Nevertheless, in June 2009, six months after the inauguration of the new Senate, two Democratic senators made an alliance with the Republican Senate majority and overturn restoring control of the upper chamber to the Republican party. The Republicans are generally centrist image of former Governors Thomas E. Dewey , Nelson Rockefeller and George Pataki and New York mayor, Fiorello La Guardia , Rudolph Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg (now independent). At the federal level, 20 of the 29 representatives in U.S. Congress are Democrats and the two Senators of the State of New York, Kirsten Gillibrand and Charles Schumer. From 1832 , the State of New York introduces elementary school free and compulsory . In 1969 , 1994 and 1999 were three editions of the Woodstock festival , the first being the best known and the other two being the anniversary editions. 
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A Democratic stronghold in presidential elections
The State of New York is one of the states most Democrats (yellow) of the Northeast United States since the U.S. presidential election of 1932 after being pro-Whig (purple) and Republicans (blue). Since 1945 , the only Republican candidate to win the state are Thomas E. Dewey ( 1948 ), Dwight David Eisenhower ( 1952 and 1956 ) Richard Nixon ( 1972 ) and Ronald Reagan ( 1980 and 1984 ). A progressive state
A representation of national Democratic trend
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