New York State
New York State, has a population of 20 million and is the fourth-most populous state in the United States. It fans the city of New York but it’s capital is Albany in the north of the state.
In the south east of the state, the main geographical regions are New York City, Long Island , the nation’s most populous island; and the suburbs and wealthy enclaves of the lower Hudson Valley, which account for more than two thirds of the State’s population.
The much larger Upstate area spreads from the Great Lakes and includes the Adirondack Mountains and the Catskill Mountains (part of the wider Appalachian Mountains). The east–west Mohawk River Valley bisects these more mountainous regions.
Western New York, home to the cities of Buffalo and Rochester, is part of the Great Lakes region and borders Lake Ontario and Lake Erie. Central New York State is anchored by the city of Syracuse; between the central and western parts of the state,
History
New York State was one of the original Thirteen Colonies that went on to form the United States. It had been inhabited by tribes of the Algonquians and the Iroquois Native Americans for several thousand years by the time the earliest Europeans arrived.
Stemming from Henry Hudson’s expedition in 1609, the Dutch established the multiethnic colony of New Netherland in 1621. England seized the colony from the Dutch in 1664, renaming it the Province of New York.
During the American Revolutionary War, a group of colonists eventually succeeded in establishing independence, and the state ratified the then new United States Constitution in 1788.
From the early 19th century, the construction of the Erie Canal, near Buffalo gave it incomparable advantages over other regions of the United States.The state built its political, cultural, and economic ascendancy over the next century, earning it the nickname of the “Empire State.
