New York Ceety: Difference atween revisions

| official_name = The CityCeety ofo New York

| image_caption = Clockwise frae top: [[Midtown Manhattan]], the [[Unitit Naitions Heidquairters]], the [[Statue ofo Liberty]], the [[Brooklyn Bridge]], [[Central Park]], [[Times Square]], an the [[Unisphere]] in [[Queens]]

| nickname = [[Big Apple|The Big Apple]], Gotham, Center o the Universe, The Ceety That Neier Sleeps,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://hotword.dictionary.com/big-apple-gotham/|title=Why is New York City known as "the Big Apple" and "Gotham?"|publisher=Dictionary.com, LLC|accessdate=2011-06-16|archive-date=2012-02-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120215214452/http://hotword.dictionary.com/big-apple-gotham/|url-status=dead}}</ref> The Caipital o the Warld<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mpiweb.org/Archive?id=2972 |title=Showcase Destinations New York City: Capital of the World |publisher=Mpiweb.org |date=September 22, 1924 |accessdate=2011-06-16 |archive-date=2011-09-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110930082527/http://www.mpiweb.org/Archive?id=2972 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nyc.gov/html/lmec/html/about/nycapital.shtml|title=About New York City|publisher=The City of New York|accessdate=2011-06-16|archive-date=2014-04-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407134046/http://www.nyc.gov/html/lmec/html/about/nycapital.shtml|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/nycdata/forward.htm|title=FORWARD New York – Capital of the Modern World|author=Eugene J. Sherman|publisher=The Weissman Center for International Business Baruch College/CUNY 2011|accessdate=2011-06-16|archive-date=2008-10-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081002112343/http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/nycdata/forward.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref>

|date=January 8, 2010}}

| leader_name = [[Michael Bloomberg{{#property:p6}}]]

| population_total = 81751338336697 ([[Leet o Unitit States ceeties bi population|1st]])

| population_total = 82449108336697 ([[Leet o Unitit States ceeties bi population|1st]])

| population_as_of = 20112012 [[Unitit States Census Bureau|Unitit States Census]] estimates<ref name="nytimes.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/05/nyregion/census-estimates-for-2011-show-population-growth-in-new-york.html|title=Population Growth in New York City Is Outpacing 2010 Census, 2011 Estimates Show|author=Sam Roberts|publisher=© 2012 The New York Times Company|date=April 5, 2012|accessdate=2012-04-24}}</ref>

'''New York Ceety''' is({{lang-en|New theYork [[LeetCity|link=no}}) ois Unititthe States ceeties bi population|maist populous ceety]] in the [[Unitit States]] an the centre o the [[New York metropolitan aurie]], whilkat is aneae o the [[Leet o metropolitan auries bi population|maist populous metropolitan auries]] in the warld. New York Ceety haes a significant impact on global commerce, finance, media, cultur, airt, fashion, research, eddication, an entertainment. As host o the [[Unitit Naitions Heidquarters]], it is an aa an important centre for internaitional affairs. The ceety is aften referred tae as '''New York Ceety''' or the '''CityCeety ofo New York''' tae distinguish it frae the [[New York State(state)|state o New York]], o whichat it is aapairt pairto.

Locatit on [[New York Harbour|a lairge naturalnaitural harbour]] on the Atlantic coast o the [[Northeastren Unitit States]], the ceety consists o five [[Borough (New York Ceety)|boroughs]]: [[Bronx|The Bronx]], [[Brooklyn]], [[Manhattan]], [[Queens]], an [[Staten Island]]. The ceety's 2009 estimatit population approached 8.4 million, an wi a land aurie o 305 square milesmile (790 km2), New York Ceety is the [[Leet o Unitit States ceeties bi population density|maist densely populatit]] major ceety in the Unitit States. The [[New York metropolitan aurie]]'s population is the USA's lairgestmucklest, estimatit at 19.1 million fowk ower 6,720 square milesmile (17,400 km2). The [[Combined Statistical Aurie]] contained 22.2 million fowk as o 2009 Census estimates, an aa the lairgestmucklest in the Unitit States.

New York wis foondit as a commercial tredin post bi the [[Dutch Republic|Dutch]] in 1624. The settlementdounset wis cawed [[New Amsterdam]] til 1664 whan the colony came unner [[Kinrick o Ingland|Inglis]] control.

Mony destricts an landmarkslaundmerks in the ceety hae becomeacome wellweel kent tae ootsiders. The [[Statue o Liberty]] greetit millions o [[Immigration tae the Unitit States|immigrants]] as theythay came tae Americae in the late 19t an early 20t centuries. [[Times Square]], iconifee'd as "The Crossroads o the Warld", is the brichtly illuminatit hub o the [[Broadway theatre]] destrict, ane o the warld's busiest pedestrian intersections, an a major centre o the warld's [[entertainment industry]]. Anchored bi [[Wall Street]], in [[Lawer Manhattan]], New York vies wi [[Lunnon]] as the [[financial centre|financial caipital]] o the warld an is hame tae the [[New York Stock Exchynge]], the warld's lairgestmucklest stock exchynge bi mercat caipitalisation o its leetit companies. The oreeginal Manhattan [[Chinatown, Manhattan|Chinatown]] attracts thrangs o tourists tae its bustlin sidewalks an retail establishments. Warld-classcless schuils an varsities sic as [[Columbia University]]Varsity, [[New York University]]Varsity an [[Fordham University]]Varsity an aa reside in New York Ceety.

New York Ceety haes ten [[toun twinnin|sister ceeties]] recognisit bi [[Sister Cities International]] (SCI):<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nyc.gov/html/unccp/scp/html/sc/main.shtml|title=New York City Global Partners|year=2010|publisher=The City of New York|accessdate=27 January 2010|archive-date=2008-05-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080521052322/http://www.nyc.gov/html/unccp/scp/html/sc/main.shtml|url-status=dead}}</ref>

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|! ! align=left| {{Flag|Cheenae|size=30px}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ebeijing.gov.cn/Sister_Cities/Sister_City/|title=Sister Cities|publisher=Beijing Municipal Government|accessdate=2009-06-23|archive-date=2010-01-17|archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/5mq6B2fdq?url=http://www.ebeijing.gov.cn/Sister_Cities/Sister_City/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

LikeLik New York Ceety, aw except Beijing are the maist populous ceeties o theirthair respective kintras.<ref>''[[The Statesman's Yearbook]] 2003'', editit bi Barry Turner, [[Palgrave Macmillan]] ([[Basingstoke]], London and New York), 2002, ISBN 0-333-98096-4</ref>

UnlikeUnlik New York Ceety, aw but Johannesburg serve as ''[[de facto]]'' or ''[[de jure]]'' naitional politicalpoleetical caipitals. New York an her sister ceeties are aw major economic centres, but few o the sister ceeties share New York's status as a major seaport.<ref>"Countries of the World", ''[[Whitaker's Almanack]] 1999'' (Standard Edition), [[The Stationery Office]], Lunnon, 1998, ISBN 0-11-702240-3, pp. 781–785, 907</ref>

[[Category:Port settlementsceeties inan touns o the Unitit States Atlantic coast]]