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New York City
Home to one of the most iconic skylines in the world,
New York City sits at the point where the Hudson River
meets the Atlantic Ocean.
The city consists of five boroughs—Brooklyn, Queens,
Manhattan, the Bronx and Staten Island—and can trace
its roots back to 1624, when Dutch colonists founded
a trading post called New Amsterdam. Renamed New
York in 1664, it has been the United States’ largest city
since 1790. Today almost 8.5 million people live in an
area of just 305 sq. miles (790 km
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the most densely populated city in the country.
The city’s architecture mixes traditional structures with
modern designs, but the skyline is most famous for its
skyscrapers. With more than 550 structures over 330 ft.
(100 m) high, only Hong Kong has a greater number of
tall buildings.
With three of the world’s ten most visited attractions—
Times Square, Central Park and Grand Central Station—
the city is a popular tourist destination with 56 million
visitors in 2014. It is often claimed that New York City is
the most photographed city in the world.
[ “New York is the
only real city-city.” ]
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