<Table> <Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> New York metropolitan area New York--Newark--Bridgeport, NY, NJ, CT, PA </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> View of Midtown Manhattan at blue hour </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Coordinates: 40 ° 48 ′ 31" N 74 ° 1 ′ 13.39" W ﻿ / ﻿ 40.80861 ° N 74.0203861 ° W ﻿ / 40.80861; - 74.0203861 Coordinates: 40 ° 48 ′ 31" N 74 ° 1 ′ 13.39" W ﻿ / ﻿ 40.80861 ° N 74.0203861 ° W ﻿ / 40.80861; - 74.0203861 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Country </Th> <Td> United States </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> States </Th> <Td> New York New Jersey Connecticut Pennsylvania </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Principal municipalities </Th> <Td> New York City (Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, The Bronx, Staten Island) Hempstead Brookhaven Newark Jersey City Yonkers Paterson Bridgeport Elizabeth Stamford New Haven Allentown Waterbury Edison Woodbridge Norwalk Trenton Danbury New Rochelle Mount Vernon White Plains Clifton Passaic Glen Cove Mount Kisco Hackensack </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Area </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Total </Th> <Td> 13,318 sq mi (34,490 km) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Population (2015) </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Total </Th> <Td> 23,723,696 (1st) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Density </Th> <Td> 1,781.3 / sq mi (687.8 / km) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Time zone </Th> <Td> Eastern Time Zone (UTC - 5) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Area code (s) </Th> <Td> 201, 203, 212, 215, 267, 272, 347, 475, 484, 516, 518, 551, 570, 609, 610, 631, 646, 718, 732, 845, 848, 860, 862, 908, 914, 917, 929, 973 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Highest elevation 4,180 ft / 1,274 m (Slide Mountain (Ulster County, New York), in the Catskill Mountains). Lowest elevation 0 ft / 0 m (sea level) at the Atlantic Ocean, Long Island Sound, and at Hudson River estuary waterways . </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> New York metropolitan area New York--Newark--Bridgeport, NY, NJ, CT, PA </Th> </Tr>

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