New York
New York is a US state in the Northeast, admitted to the Union in 1788. Its capital is Albany, and it goes by the nickname "the Empire State". The USPS abbreviation is NY.
Its geographic centre sits at 42.95° N, 75.53° W, the reference point GEOPUNK measures your guesses against in the US state games.
- »New York City was the national capital from 1785 to 1790.
- »The state has more than 7,600 freshwater lakes.
- »Its subway system has more stations than any other in the world.
New York touches five neighbours. Taking each direction from one centre to the other and measuring the boundary they share: Pennsylvania southwest, 508 km, Vermont northeast, 287 km, New Jersey south, 146 km, Connecticut southeast, 133 km and Massachusetts east, 80 km. The longest of those runs is with Pennsylvania.
Albany is one of the oldest continuously chartered cities in the country and became capital in 1797, well before New York City's growth made it the obvious economic centre.
126,945 km² (49,014 sq mi), 30th largest of 50 states by land area, almost exactly the size of North Carolina.
Set against the country archive, that puts it closest in size to Nicaragua.
The coat of arms shows Liberty and Justice flanking a shield with ships on the Hudson, beneath an eagle and the single-word motto 'Excelsior', meaning 'ever upward'.
Easily confused with Nebraska, Michigan, New Hampshire, Idaho, North Dakota and Vermont.
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