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Main article: United States
New York is a state in the northeastern United States, on the Atlantic coast, near the border with Canada, the largest in the group of Mid-Atlantic states. The state area is 141,300 km ², of which 19,016 km ² occupied by inland waters. The state includes the large island of Long Island. The administrative center is the city of Albany.
Within the state is the largest city, the financial center of the country is New York.
The state's population is 19,465,197 (third place after California and Texas) (2011), including urban about 85%; more than 60% live in the city of New York.
Cities
The largest cities and major industrial centers of the state are:
- New York,
- Buffalo,
- Rochester,
- Syracuse.
Other major cities are Niagara Falls, Utica, Schenectady, Binghamton.
Government
Prisons
History
2022: Temporary ban on cryptocurrency mining
New York in November 2022 became the first state in the United States to pass a law temporarily banning the mining of cryptocurrencies within its borders.
2020: New York allowed to marry via video link
On April 18, 2020, the governor of the US state of New York, Andrew Cuomo, signed an order allowing remote marriage after couples planning a wedding were forced to postpone events due to strict quarantine rules for COVID-19.
The decree allows people to receive marriage certificates via the Internet, and clerical employees to conduct marriage ceremonies via video link. Thus, the document temporarily cancels the law, in which the marriage required the personal presence of the bride and groom, or at least one of them.
 | There can be no excuses when it comes to marriage... You can now do this through Zoom, "said Andrew Cuomo, commenting on the decree on marriage online. |  |
According to the governor, due to the coronavirus COVID-19, the number of divorces in the state has increased, but weddings have become rare. At the same time, Cuomo did not provide accurate data on these indicators. Many marriage registration offices in April 2020 are temporarily closed as a result of the pandemic. This prevented New Yorkers from obtaining a marriage certificate.
Online registration is not only available in New York. In March 2020, such a service was launched in Indonesia, and in April - in the UAE.
According to the New York Daily News, 406 wedding ceremonies were performed in Manhattan and 878 throughout the city a week before the quarantine - more than in the same week in 2019.
New York State is at the center of the coronavirus epidemic in the United States. By April 18, 2020, more than 17 thousand people died from infection in New York State, more than 235 thousand were infected. According to Andrew Cuomo, the number of deaths from coronavirus per day in the state continues to decline, and the number of hospitalized people is also decreasing. The governor warned that New York will not be able to quickly return to life, which was before the pandemic.[1]
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