New York City, New York Metropolitan Area, State of New York, United States (North America)

New York City is the most populous city in the United States with an estimated 2018 population of 8.3 million people over 300+ making it the most densely populated major city in the United States Located at the southern tip of New York state, the city is the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban landmass with 23 million people in its areas New Amsterdam ("Nieuw Amsterdam" in Dutch) was a 17th-century Dutch settlement. The "factory" (a trading post) was strategically established at the southern tip of Manhattan Island, meant to defend the fur trade operations of the Dutch West India Company in the North River (Hudson River), and went on to serve as the seat of the colonial government in the New Netherlands. It later became a settlement outside of Fort Amsterdam In 1624, it became a provincial extension of the Dutch Republic and was designated as the capital of the province in 1625, and on September 8, 1664 New Amsterdam was renamed as New York in honor of the Duke of York (later James II of England), in whose name the English had captured it By 1655, the population of New Netherland had grown to 2,000 people, with 1,500 living in New Amsterdam. By 1664, the population had exploded to almost 9,000 people in New Netherland, 2,500 of whom lived in New Amsterdam, 1,000 lived near Fort Orange, and the remainder in other towns and villages In 1664 the English took over New Amsterdam and renamed it New York after the Duke of York (later James II & VII). After the Second Anglo-Dutch War of 1665–1667, England and the United Provinces of the Netherlands agreed to the status quo in the Treaty of Breda. The English kept the island of Manhattan, the Dutch giving up their claim to the town and the rest of the colony, while the English formally abandoned Surinam in South America, and the island of Run in the East Indies to the Dutch, confirming their control of the valuable Spice Islands Today much of what was once New Amsterdam is in New York City Facts here are dated after 4 July 1776; see New York in the Colony of New York for earlier facts [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City ]