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Brief History. Region of New York was claimed for France in 1609, and the first permanent settlement was established at Fort Orange (now Albany) in 1624. One year later Peter Minuit purchased Manhattan Island from the Indians for trinkets worth about 60 Dutch guilders and founded the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam (now New York City), which was surrendered to the English in 1664. New York developed commercially extremely rapidly, continued to be commercial center of the U.S. to the present-day. New York major tourist attraction include Castle Clinton, Statue of Liberty, National Monuments; Niagara Falls; U.S. Military Academy at West Point and many others.

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Nickname: Empire State

Capital: Albany

Date entered union: July 26, 1788

Population: 19,254,630

State Flower: Rose

State Bird: Bluebird

Land area: 47,214 sq mi.

Topography: Highest and most rugged mountains in the northeast Adirondack upland; Saint Lawrence-Champlain lowlands extend from Lake Ontario northeast along the Canadian border; Hudson-Mohawk lowland follows the flows of the rivers north and west; Atlantic coastal plain in the southeast; Appalachian Highlands, cover half the state westward from the Hudson Valley, including the Catskill Mountains Finger Lakes; plateau of Erie-Ontario lowlands.

Major Industries: Educational, health and social services; Retail trade; Professional, scientific, management, administrative, and waste management services

More About The People

Folks are called: New Yorker

Ethnicities: White: 12,893,689 (67.9%); Black: 3,014,385 (15.9%); American Indian: 82,461 (0.4%); Asian: 1,044,976 (5.5%); Other race: 1,341,946 (7.1%); Two or more races: 590,182 (3.1%); Hispanic/Latino: 2,867,583 (15.1%)

Male/Female stats: Male: 9,146,748 (48.2%); Female: 9,829,709 (51.8%)

Median household income ($): 43,393

College Grads: 15.6%

Home Owners: 53.0%

Famous people: Michael Jordan, Franklin D. Roosevelt

  

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