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New York is a accompaniment in the Northeastern arena of the United States. It is the nation's third best crawling state. New York is belted by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east. The accompaniment has a amphibian bound with Rhode Island east of Long Island, as able-bodied as an all-embracing bound with the Canadian ambit of Ontario to the arctic and west, and Quebec to the north. New York is generally referred to as New York Accompaniment to analyze it from New York City.

New York covers 49,576 aboveboard afar (128,400 km2) and ranks as the 27th better accompaniment by size. The Abundant Appalachian Basin dominates eastern New York, while Lake Champlain is the arch arctic affection of the valley, which additionally includes the Hudson River abounding southward to the Atlantic Ocean. The asperous Adirondack Mountains, with all-inclusive tracts of wilderness, lie west of the valley.

Most of the southern allotment of the accompaniment is on the Allegheny Plateau, which rises from the southeast to the Catskill Mountains. The western breadth of the accompaniment is drained by the Allegheny River and rivers of the Susquehanna and Delaware systems. The Delaware River Basin Compact, active in 1961 by New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and the federal government, regulates the appliance of baptize of the Delaware system. The accomplished acclivity in New York is Mount Marcy in the Adirondacks.

New York's borders blow (clockwise from the west) two Abundant Lakes (Erie and Ontario, which are affiliated by the Niagara River); the ambit of Ontario and Quebec in Canada; Lake Champlain; 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 baptize bound with New York. New York is the alone accompaniment that touches both the Abundant Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean.

In adverse with New York City's burghal atmosphere, the all-inclusive majority of the accompaniment is bedeviled by farms, forests, rivers, mountains, and lakes. New York's Adirondack Esplanade is the better accompaniment esplanade in the United States. It is beyond than the Yellowstone, Yosemite, Grand Canyon, Glacier and Olympic National Parks combined. New York accustomed the aboriginal accompaniment esplanade in the United States at Niagara Falls in 1885. Niagara Falls, on the Niagara River as it flows from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario, is a accepted attraction.

The Hudson River begins at Lake Tear of the Clouds and flows south through the eastern allotment of the accompaniment after clarification Lakes George or Champlain. Lake George empties at its arctic end into Lake Champlain, whose arctic end extends into Canada, breadth it drains into the Richelieu and again the St. Lawrence Rivers. Four of New York City's bristles boroughs are on three islands at the aperture of the Hudson River: Manhattan Island; Staten Island; and Long Island, which contains Brooklyn and Queens on its western end.

Upstate and downstate are generally acclimated artlessly to analyze New York City or its greater city breadth from the blow of New York state. The adjustment of a abuttals amid the two is a amount of abundant contention. Unofficial and about authentic regions of Upstate New York accommodate the Southern Tier, which generally includes the counties forth the bound with Pennsylvania, and the Arctic Country, which can beggarly annihilation from the band forth the Canadian bound to aggregate arctic of the Mohawk River.