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New York, often called New York City [b] or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States. Located at the southern tip of New York State on one of the world's largest natural harbors, the city comprises five boroughs, each coextensive with a respective county.
Henry Hudson's Halve Maen (Half Moon) on the Hudson River The Carson McCullers House in South Nyack DeWint House (circa 1700) is the oldest home in Rockland County Historic Rockland County Courthouse in New City The territory of the Lenape in present-day southern New York, New Jersey, and eastern sections of Delaware and Pennsylvania
Ballston Spa is a village and the county seat of Saratoga County, New York, United States, located southwest of Saratoga Springs. It is part of the Capital Region . [ 2 ] The population of the village, named after Rev. Eliphalet Ball , a Congregationalist clergyman and an early settler, [ 3 ] [ 4 ] was 5,111 at the 2020 census. [ 5 ]
Area codes 876 and 658 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for Jamaica.. Having telephone service to the United States as early as 1936, it was not until 1962 that Jamaica had a high capacity link for dial service to the US network, which was operated as part of the NANP numbering plan area 876. 876 were designated for parts of the Caribbean region in 1958, and ...
The five boroughs of New York City. New York City is located on the coast of the Northeastern United States at the mouth of the Hudson River in southeastern New York state. It is located in the New York–New Jersey Harbor Estuary, the centerpiece of which is the New York Harbor, whose deep waters and sheltered bays helped the city grow in significance as a trading city.
Machu Picchu [a] is a 15th-century Inca citadel located in the Eastern Cordillera of southern Peru on a mountain ridge at 2,430 meters (7,970 ft). [8] Often referred to as the "Lost City of the Incas", [9] it is the most familiar icon of the Inca Empire.
Denali (/ d ə ˈ n ɑː l i /; [5] [6] also known as Mount McKinley, its former official name) [7] is the highest mountain peak in North America, with a summit elevation of 20,310 feet (6,190 m) above sea level.
South America has an area of 17,840,000 square kilometers (6,890,000 sq mi). Its population as of 2021 has been estimated at more than 434 million. [1] [2] South America ranks fourth in area (after Asia, Africa, and North America) and fifth in population (after Asia, Africa, Europe, and North America). Brazil is by far the most populous South ...