

The New York metropolitan area is the geographic and demographic hub of the larger Northeast megalopolis. The phrase " Tri-State area" usually refers to New York / New Jersey / Connecticut, although an increasing number of people who work in New York City commute from Pennsylvania, particularly from the Lehigh Valley, Bucks County, and Poconos regions in eastern Pennsylvania. The vast metropolitan area includes New York City, the nation's most populous city, Long Island, Mid and Lower Hudson Valley in New York state the six largest cities in New Jersey: Newark, Jersey City, Paterson, Elizabeth, Lakewood, and Edison, and their respective suburbs and six of the seven largest cities in Connecticut: Bridgeport, Stamford, New Haven, Waterbury, Norwalk, and Danbury, and the suburbs of these cities. metropolitan area larger than 20 million residents as of the 2020 United States census. The New York metropolitan area is one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world, the world's largest metropolitan area by size, and the only U.S. The New York metropolitan area, broadly referred to as the Tri-State area, is the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban landmass, encompassing 4,669.0 sq mi (12,093 km 2).

Lowest elevation 0 ft/0 m ( sea level) at the Atlantic Ocean, Long Island Sound, and at Hudson River estuary waterways. Highest elevation 4,180 ft/1,274 m ( Slide Mountain (Ulster County, New York), in the Catskill Mountains). From top, left to right: The Financial District of Lower Manhattan, the world's principal financial center Montauk Point Light, on the East End of Long Island Downtown White Plains, in the Hudson Valley region the Paramount Theatre, at Asbury Park Convention Hall at nightfall on the Jersey Shore Greenwich, on Connecticut’s Gold Coast, home to many wealthy financiers and hedge funds and Midtown Manhattan overlooking Hudson County, New Jersey toward the west, across the Hudson River
