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New York is located in Western and Northern Hemispheres.
New York State is located in the Northern and Western Hemisphere . NYS is located on the continent of North America in the country of the United States of America. Vermont, Massachusetts, and Connecticut are New York’s eastern border.
Western Hemisphere
NYC is made up of 5 boroughs (Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island and the Bronx). New York State is the 27th largest state but the 4th in population (mostly in NYC ). Most of the state is referred to as ‘upstate’ to distinguish from the city . Upstate and it’s people are totally different from NYC .
The state of New York uses the Eastern Time Zone (UTC-05:00) with daylight saving time (UTC-04:00).
United States
The United States is located in both the Northern and Western hemispheres.
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New York is bounded to the west and north by Lake Erie, the Canadian province of Ontario , Lake Ontario , and the Canadian province of Quebec ; to the east by the New England states of Vermont , Massachusetts , and Connecticut ; to the southeast by the Atlantic Ocean and New Jersey; and to the south by Pennsylvania .
While the hemispheres separate the majority of the continents, Africa lies in all four hemispheres of the earth, which are the Northern, Southern, Eastern, and Western Hemisphere . Therefore, Africa can be described as the only continent that has its land crossed by both the Prime Meridian and the Equator.
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Australia (continent)
Area | 8,600,000 km2 (3,300,000 sq mi) (7th) |
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Demonym | Australian |
Countries | 3 ( Australia , Papua New Guinea and portions of Indonesia) |
Languages | English, Indonesian, Tok Pisin, Hiri Motu, 269 indigenous Papuan and Austronesian languages, and about 70 Indigenous Australian languages |
New York City is highlighted in red; ” Upstate ” refers to some or all of the area north and west of the city. The Bear Mountain Bridge across the Hudson River, as seen from Bear Mountain. It connects the northern parts of Westchester and Rockland Counties, considered by some to be the southern edge of Upstate .
Manhattan is NYC and New York City is in NY While it has a ” New York , NY ” mailing address, neither the Island of Manhattan nor the Borough of Manhattan is the entirety of New York City , which includes 5 boroughs, not one borough, that are each coterminous with a county in New York State.
While New York State’s greatest pockets of wealth are clustered on Long Island and in New York City’s immediate suburbs, there are villages and small communities scattered across the Upstate NY region that rank among some of the richest places in the state.