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10 février 2014
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9781783336128
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English
Publié par
Date de parution
10 février 2014
Nombre de lectures
1
EAN13
9781783336128
Langue
English
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50 Quick Facts About New York
By
Wayne Wheelwright
Publisher Information
50 Quick Facts about New York
Published in 2014 by Andrews UK Limited
www.andrewsuk.com
This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior written consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published, and without a similar condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.
Copyright © 2014 Wayne Wheelwright
The right of Wayne Wheelwright to be identified as author of this book has been asserted in accordance with section 77 and 78 of the Copyrights Designs and Patents Act 1988.
Facts New York is situated in the Northeastern region of the United States. With an area of 54,556 miles it is the 27 th largest state in the country by area. New York is bordered on the south by New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The state is bordered on the east by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont. New York state also has a maritime border with Rhode Island and an international border with Ontario, Canada. New York has a population of around 19.5 million people which makes it the 3 rd most populous state in the United States. New York City itself has a population of over 8 million people and makes up around 40% of the population of the state. New York state has a population density of 412/sq mile which places it as the state with the 7 th highest population density in the United States. New York’s history starts at around 10,000 BC which is when the first Native Americans arrived and by 10000 AD the two main tribes had developed, the Iroquoian and the Algonquian. Europeans didn’t arrive in New York until 1524 led by the French and the first land claim which came from the Dutch didn’t come until 1609. The state was named New York after the Duke of York in 1664 by the English and New York City became one of the most important trading ports in the Thirteen Colonies (Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, Connecticut, Massachusetts Bay, Maryland, South Carolina, New Hampshire, Virginia, New York, North Carolina and Rhode Island and Providence Plantations) in the 1700s. During the Revolutionary War, New York was the venue of many pivotal battles. The Battle of Saratoga was the turning point of the war.
