New York County Map
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New York County Maps
New York State is carved up into 62 counties. This might sound like a lot, but hey, there’s a whole lot of New York to go around. There is the concrete jungle of NYC, the Finger Lakes region, and the peaks of the Adirondacks. There’s more variety to New York State than people think.
New York Counties
Kings County (that’s Brooklyn to most folks) is the most populated. It has more people than most states, packed into one borough. On the flip side, there’s Hamilton County up in the Adirondacks. It’s the least populous, with fewer year-round residents than some NYC apartment buildings.
St. Lawrence County is the biggest in terms of land area. It’s actually bigger than the entire state of Delaware, if you can believe it. Meanwhile, the smallest county is New York County, better known as Manhattan. It might be tiny, but it packs more per square inch than anywhere else in the country.
New York started divvying up into counties way back in 1683 when it was still a British colony. Each county has a story to tell. Onondaga County is named after the Native American nation and means “people of the hills.” There’s also Rockland County, which got its name from all the, you guessed it, rocks found there by early Dutch settlers.