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The Atlas of New York contains maps of the U.S. state of New York. Maps include general overview, county borders, history maps, terrain maps, precipitation, average temperature, major cities, etc.
General maps
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Map of New York within U.S. |
General map of New York: major cities, rivers & highways. For highest resolution (1.5 mb), see:
Map_of_New_York_NA.png.
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Counties map of New York (labeled) |
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Counties map of New York (unlabeled) |
[edit] Geography maps
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Terrain map of New York |
History maps
This section holds a short summary of the history of the area of present-day New York, illustrated with maps, including historical maps of former countries and empires that included present-day New York.
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Map of New York railroads at Long Island in 1873 |
[edit] Regions of New York
Map of New York highlighting New York City
Map of New York highlighting Long Island, NY
Map of New York highlighting Finger Lakes region
[edit] Population maps
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Map of New York population density |
[edit] Notes and references
General remarks:
- The WIKIMEDIA COMMONS Atlas of the World is an organized and commented collection of geographical, political and historical maps available at Wikimedia Commons. The main page is therefore the portal to maps and cartography on Wikimedia. That page contains links to entries by country, continent and by topic as well as general notes and references.
- Every entry has an introduction section in English. If other languages are native and/or official in an entity, introductions in other languages are added in separate sections. The text of the introduction(s) is based on the content of the Wikipedia encyclopedia. For sources of the introduction see therefore the Wikipedia entries linked to. The same goes for the texts in the history sections.
- Historical maps are included in the continent, country and dependency entries.
- For Burma, see Myanmar; Great Britain and Northern Ireland, see United Kingdom; Ivory Coast, see Côte d'Ivoire; Pridnestrovie, see Transnistria; Taiwan, see China, Republic of; Timor-Leste, see East Timor.
- The status of various entities is disputed. See the content for the entities concerned.
- The maps of former countries that are more or less continued by a present-day country or had a territory included in only one or two countries are included in the atlas of the present-day country. For example the Ottoman Empire can be found in the Atlas of Turkey.
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