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| | Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : New York (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) |
 | | It is sometimes called New York State when there is need to distinguish it from New York City, the largest city both in the state and in the nation. |
 | | Upstate New York typically includes the Catskill and Adirondack Mountains, the Shawangunk Ridge, the Finger and Great Lakes in the west and Lake Champlain, Lake George, and Oneida Lake in the northeast, and rivers such as the Delaware, Genesee, Hudson, Mohawk, and Susquehanna. |
 | | According to the July 1, 2004 Census Bureau Estimate New York City and its six closest New York State satellite counties (Suffolk, Nassau, Westchester, Rockland, Putnam and Orange) have a combined population of 12,626,200 people, or 65.67% of the state's population. |
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