New York State
New York is a state in the northeastern United States. The state is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont to the east. It has an international border with Canada to the north.
New York had been inhabited by tribes of Algonquian and Iroquois confederacy Native Americans for several hundred years by the time the earliest Europeans came to New York. In 1609, the region was visited by the Dutch East India Company, who built Fort Nassau in 1614 at the confluence of the Hudson and Mohawk rivers. The Dutch soon also settled New Amsterdam and parts of the Hudson Valley, establishing the colony of New Netherland. The Dutch ceded it to the English as a part of the Treaty of Westminster in 1674. During the American Revolutionary War, a group of colonists attempted to take control of New York and eventually succeeded in establishing independence. It was one of the original thirteen colonies forming the United States.
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State
Population
20,215,751
Inhabitant Demonym
New Yorker
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