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| Geography |
Castle Point in the Shawangunks. |
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| New York State's borders touch two
Great Lakes (Erie and Ontario, which are connected by the Niagara
River), the provinces of Ontario and Quebec in Canada,three
New England states |
| (Vermont, Massachusetts, and Connecticut),
the Atlantic Ocean, and two Mid-Atlantic states (New Jersey
and Pennsylvania). In addition, Rhode Island shares a water
border with New York |
The southern tip of New York State –
New York City, its suburbs, and the southern portion of the
Hudson Valley – can be considered to form the central
core of a "megalopolis", a super-city stretching
from the northern suburbs of Boston to the southern suburbs
of Washington and therefore occasionally called BosWash.
First described by Jean Gottmann in 1961 as a new phenomenon
in the history of world urbanization, the megalopolis is characterized
by a coalescence of previous already-large cities of the Eastern
Seaboard, a heavy specialization on tertiary activity related
to government, trade, law, education, finance, publishing
and control of economic activity, plus a growth pattern not
so much of more population and more area as more intensive
use of already existing urbanized area and ever more sophisticated
links from one specialty to another. Several other groups
of megalopolis-type super-cities exist in the world, but that
centered around New York City was the first described and
still is the best example. |
The megalopolis, however, is not the only aspect of New York
State. While best known for New York City's urban atmosphere,
especially Manhattan's skyscrapers, by contrast the rest of
the state is dominated by farms, forests, rivers, mountains,
and lakes. Few people know that New York's Adirondack State
Park is larger than any National Park in the US. Niagara Falls,
on the Niagara River as it flows from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario
is a popular attraction; the best view is from the Canadian
side.
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| The Hudson River flows south through the eastern
part of the state without draining Lakes George or Champlain.
Lake George empties at its north end into Lake Champlain, whose
northern end extends into Canada, where it drains into the Richelieu
and then the St Lawrence Rivers. Four of New York City's five
boroughs are on the three islands at the mouth of the Hudson
River Manhattan Island, Staten Island, and Long Island. |
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