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Manhattan [mænˈhætn̩] ist einer der fünf Stadtbezirke der Stadt New York City und deckt sich mit dem New York County. Die Insel Manhattan liegt an der Mündung des Hudson River und wird von diesem im Westen, vom East River im Osten und vom Harlem River im Nordosten umflossen.
New York City hat sich von der Insel Manhattan aus ausgedehnt, auf der sich heute das Stadtzentrum befindet. Die Stadt liegt auf 40,42° nördlicher Breite und 74,00° westlicher Länge an der Ostküste der Vereinigten Staaten in der New York Bay und in unmittelbarer Nachbarschaft zu Jersey City.
Manhattan serves as New York City's economic and administrative center and has been described as the cultural, financial, media, and entertainment capital of the world. Present-day Manhattan was originally part of Lenape territory.
Aerial view of the New York City metropolitan area with Manhattan at its center. New York City is situated in the northeastern United States, in southeastern New York State, approximately halfway between Washington, D.C. and Boston.
Manhattan is one of the five boroughs that make up New York City, and is the center of the New York metropolitan area. It is also located over the same area as a county of New York state called New York County. Although it is the smallest borough, it is the most densely populated borough.
Manhattan in 1873, looking north. The Hudson River is at left. The Brooklyn Bridge across the East River (at right) was built from 1870 to 1883. The written history of New York City began with the first European explorer, the Italian Giovanni da Verrazzano in 1524.
The territory and its surroundings came under English control in 1664 and were renamed New York after King Charles II of England granted the lands to his brother, the Duke of York. [2] New York, based in present-day Manhattan, served as the capital of the United States from 1785 until 1790. [3]
