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| | New York State - Information, Maps, Facts, What to do, Links, and much more. |
 | | New York State's borders touch (clockwise from the northwest) two Great Lakes (Erie and Ontario, which are connected by the Niagara River), the Provinces of Quebec and Ontario in Canada, three New England states (Vermont, Massachusetts, and Connecticut), the Atlantic Ocean, and two Mid-Atlantic states (New Jersey and Pennsylvania). |
 | | The five New York City boroughs and their (counties) are: The Bronx (Bronx) on the mainland north of Manhattan (New York) on Manhattan Island; the Hudson River is their western boundary. |
 | | New York was heavily glaciated in the ice age leaving much of the state with deep, fertile, though somewhat rocky soils. |
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