Description: Detailed large map of New York State, USA showing cities, towns, county formations, roads highway, US highways and State routes.
This map of New York with cities, counties, and roads is already large enough to read directly on your desktop. To see a full-screen zoom view on a phone or tablet, tap the map image (or tap the Zoom Map label above the image). Scan by shading by county first, meaning the 62 counties are in various colored blocks with each county's seat in bold. Use the interstate system and the Hudson, Mohawk, and St. Lawrence rivers for quick orientation. Note that the light road layer is intentionally minimal and not designed for turn-by-turn directions using interstate (I-87, I-90, I-81). If you want a specific city or county, the full county and seat index and FAQ's lower on this page are the quickest route to click straight to it.
New York's borders trace a wide arc: Pennsylvania and New Jersey run along the south and southwest, Connecticut and Massachusetts sit to the east, Vermont meets the state across Lake Champlain in the northeast, and Canada (Ontario and Quebec) forms the entire northern edge along the St. Lawrence River and Lake Ontario. All 62 counties are shown, including the five boroughs of New York City, and the Hudson, Mohawk, St. Lawrence, and Genesee rivers act as the main orientation lines running through the interior. Light corridor cues for I-90, I-87, I-81, I-84, and I-95 help place the major metro anchors the cartography marks clearly: New York City across its five boroughs, Buffalo in Erie County, Rochester in Monroe County, Syracuse in Onondaga County, and Albany, the state capital, in Albany County.
Start where Lake Erie meets the Niagara River. Erie County fronts the lake with Buffalo as its seat, and the waterfront spreads into Tonawanda, Cheektowaga, West Seneca, Lackawanna, and Hamburg. North along the gorge, Niagara County stretches from Niagara Falls and Lewiston to Olcott on Lake Ontario, with the seat at Lockport on the ridge above the falls. South of Erie, Chautauqua County runs from Dunkirk and Fredonia to Jamestown on Chautauqua Lake, seat Mayville. Cattaraugus County sits inland with seat Little Valley and the cities of Olean and Salamanca. Allegany County, seat Belmont, closes out the corner with the Genesee River headwaters and rolling farmland toward the Finger Lakes.
Monroe County holds Rochester, the seat, where the Genesee River meets Lake Ontario, with suburbs Greece, Irondequoit, Henrietta, Webster, and Pittsford ringing the city. West of Rochester, Orleans County lists Albion as seat along the lake plain, and Genesee County sets Batavia at its center with Le Roy nearby. South of the lake plain, Livingston County places its seat at Geneseo on the Genesee, and Wyoming County shows Warsaw as seat near Silver Lake.
Ontario County centers on Canandaigua at the head of Canandaigua Lake, with Geneva at the north end of Seneca Lake. Wayne County, seat Lyons, runs along Lake Ontario through Newark and Sodus. Seneca County is the state's only two-seat county, splitting government between Waterloo and Ovid on either side of Seneca Lake. Yates County centers on Penn Yan at the head of Keuka Lake. Farther south, Steuben County sets its seat at Bath with Corning and Hornell nearby, Schuyler County places Watkins Glen at Seneca Lake's south end, Chemung County lists Elmira as seat on the Chemung River, and Tompkins County marks Ithaca, home to Cornell University, at the foot of Cayuga Lake.
Onondaga County holds Syracuse as seat beside Onondaga Lake, ringed by Clay, Cicero, DeWitt, and Manlius. Cayuga County shows Auburn as seat west of Owasco Lake, and Oswego County runs from Oswego on Lake Ontario to Fulton and Pulaski, with Oneida Lake anchoring its south edge. Madison County lists Wampsville as seat with Oneida and Cazenovia nearby, and Cortland County centers on Cortland, seat, with Homer just north.
Oneida County is anchored by Utica, the seat, on the Mohawk River, with Rome on the historic canal corridor. East of it, Herkimer County lists Herkimer as seat at the edge of Adirondack Park, Fulton County marks Johnstown with Gloversville beside it, and Montgomery County sets Fonda as seat with Amsterdam on the river. The valley opens into the Capital Region: Saratoga County shows Ballston Spa as seat with Saratoga Springs nearby, Schenectady County lists Schenectady as seat, Albany County holds Albany, both the county seat and the state capital, on the Hudson, and Rensselaer County places Troy across the river.
Washington County sets its seat at Fort Edward near the Hudson's headwaters, and Warren County holds Lake George village with the seat at Queensbury. Deeper into the mountains, Hamilton County is New York's most sparsely populated county, seat Lake Pleasant, and Essex County lists Elizabethtown as seat, home to the High Peaks and Lake Placid. Along Lake Champlain, Clinton County places Plattsburgh as seat, and Franklin County sets Malone as seat with Saranac Lake shared regionally. In the far north, St. Lawrence County, New York's largest county by area, lists Canton as seat with Ogdensburg, Massena, and Potsdam along the St. Lawrence River. Jefferson County shows Watertown as seat near the Thousand Islands, and Lewis County centers on Lowville between the Tug Hill Plateau and the Adirondacks.
You just traced the Niagara Frontier to Rochester, crossed the Finger Lakes, followed the Mohawk into the Capital Region, and circled the Adirondacks to the St. Lawrence and Lake Champlain. Notice how the road-light layout lets counties, seats, rivers, and lakes lead the experience.
Along the Pennsylvania line, Tioga County lists Owego as seat on the Susquehanna River. Broome County holds Binghamton, seat, where the Chenango meets the Susquehanna. Chenango County centers on Norwich, seat, and Delaware County sets Delhi as seat with Walton, Sidney, and Deposit spread along branching valleys. Sullivan County, seat Monticello, rounds out the corridor in the Catskills' western foothills.
Otsego County highlights Cooperstown, the seat, on Otsego Lake, with Oneonta to the south. Schoharie County lists Schoharie as seat along Schoharie Creek. Greene County places Catskill as seat on the Hudson, where the mountains meet the river. Columbia County, seat Hudson, sits across the river toward the Massachusetts line.
Ulster County shows Kingston as seat on the west bank, with New Paltz inland. Across the river, Dutchess County lists Poughkeepsie as seat, with Beacon, Fishkill, and Hyde Park nearby. Putnam County presents Carmel as seat in the Hudson Highlands. Orange County places Goshen as seat with Newburgh, Middletown, and Port Jervis near the Pennsylvania and New Jersey corner. Rockland County shows New City as seat along the lower Hudson, and Westchester County lists White Plains as seat with Yonkers, New Rochelle, Mount Vernon, and Rye framing the shore toward Connecticut.
New York City is unique on this map: its five boroughs are each also a county, and none keeps a traditional county seat since city government runs boroughwide. New York County covers Manhattan. Kings County is Brooklyn, New York's most populous county. Queens County matches the borough of Queens, the most ethnically diverse county in the country. Bronx County sits north of Manhattan between the Harlem River and Long Island Sound. Richmond County is Staten Island, reached from Manhattan by ferry and from New Jersey by bridge.
Nassau County places Mineola as seat near the island's center, with Hempstead, Glen Cove, and Long Beach ringing the shores. Suffolk County sets Riverhead as seat, stretching east through Huntington, Islip, and Brookhaven to the North and South Forks around Greenport and the Hamptons.
Five waterways do most of the orientation work here. The Hudson River runs from the Adirondacks past Albany to New York Harbor. The Mohawk River cuts the east-west valley through Utica, Rome, and Schenectady before joining the Hudson. The St. Lawrence River traces the Canadian border past Ogdensburg and Massena. The Genesee River flows north through Rochester to Lake Ontario, and the Susquehanna and Delaware headwaters drain the Southern Tier and Catskills toward Pennsylvania. Keep these five in mind and any county on the map is easy to place.
The road layer stays intentionally minimal. I-90, the New York State Thruway, runs Buffalo to Albany across the Great Lakes plain and Mohawk Valley. I-87 runs New York City to Albany, then climbs the Adirondack Northway to the Canadian border. I-81 runs the Pennsylvania line through Syracuse and Watertown toward Canada. I-84 crosses the Hudson Valley east-west near Newburgh and Beacon, and I-95 threads the coast through Westchester into Connecticut. None of these are meant for turn-by-turn navigation, only county-placement cues.
Every one of New York's 62 counties and its seat, in alphabetical order: Albany County (Albany), Allegany County (Belmont), Bronx County (no traditional seat; New York City borough government), Broome County (Binghamton), Cattaraugus County (Little Valley), Cayuga County (Auburn), Chautauqua County (Mayville), Chemung County (Elmira), Chenango County (Norwich), Clinton County (Plattsburgh), Columbia County (Hudson), Cortland County (Cortland), Delaware County (Delhi), Dutchess County (Poughkeepsie), Erie County (Buffalo), Essex County (Elizabethtown), Franklin County (Malone), Fulton County (Johnstown), Genesee County (Batavia), Greene County (Catskill), Hamilton County (Lake Pleasant), Herkimer County (Herkimer), Jefferson County (Watertown), Kings County (no traditional seat; New York City borough government), Lewis County (Lowville), Livingston County (Geneseo), Madison County (Wampsville), Monroe County (Rochester), Montgomery County (Fonda), Nassau County (Mineola), New York County (no traditional seat; New York City borough government), Niagara County (Lockport), Oneida County (Utica), Onondaga County (Syracuse), Ontario County (Canandaigua), Orange County (Goshen), Orleans County (Albion), Oswego County (Oswego), Otsego County (Cooperstown), Putnam County (Carmel), Queens County (no traditional seat; New York City borough government), Rensselaer County (Troy), Richmond County (no traditional seat; New York City borough government), Rockland County (New City), St. Lawrence County (Canton), Saratoga County (Ballston Spa), Schenectady County (Schenectady), Schoharie County (Schoharie), Schuyler County (Watkins Glen), Seneca County (Waterloo and Ovid), Steuben County (Bath), Suffolk County (Riverhead), Sullivan County (Monticello), Tioga County (Owego), Tompkins County (Ithaca), Ulster County (Kingston), Warren County (Queensbury), Washington County (Fort Edward), Wayne County (Lyons), Westchester County (White Plains), Wyoming County (Warsaw), and Yates County (Penn Yan).
New York borders New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south and southwest, Connecticut and Massachusetts to the east, Vermont to the northeast across Lake Champlain, and Canada (Ontario and Quebec) to the north along the St. Lawrence River and Lake Ontario. The state holds 62 counties, including the five boroughs of New York City. St. Lawrence County is the largest by land area at about 2,821 square miles, while New York County (Manhattan) is the smallest at about 33 square miles. Kings County (Brooklyn) is the most populous at roughly 2.6 million residents, and Hamilton County is the least populous at roughly 5,082. Ten counties tie as the oldest: Albany, Dutchess, Kings, New York, Orange, Queens, Richmond, Suffolk, Ulster, and Westchester, all formed in 1683 among the original twelve counties of the New York colony. New York covers about 54,555 square miles in total. The capital, Albany, sits in Albany County on the Hudson River, and the state's major metros run from New York City and Long Island up the Hudson Valley to the Capital Region, then west through Syracuse and Rochester to Buffalo. Landscape-wise, the state moves from the harbor and boroughs of New York City through the Hudson Valley and Catskills, across the Finger Lakes and Great Lakes plain, and up into the Adirondack high peaks and North Country.
New York's ten largest cities by current population are New York City (about 8,804,190, spanning all five boroughs), Buffalo (about 278,349, Erie County), Yonkers (about 211,569, Westchester County), Rochester (about 211,328, Monroe County), Syracuse (about 148,620, Onondaga County), Albany (about 99,224, Albany County), New Rochelle (about 79,726, Westchester County), Mount Vernon (about 73,893, Westchester County), Schenectady (about 67,047, Schenectady County), and Utica (about 65,283, Oneida County). New York City anchors global finance around Wall Street in Lower Manhattan, alongside media, law, and a dense startup and tech sector. The Capital Region around Albany and Saratoga County has grown into a semiconductor and nanotechnology hub, often called Tech Valley. Rochester still carries its imaging and optics heritage from Eastman Kodak and Xerox, now paired with university-driven medical technology, and Buffalo's economy leans on healthcare, education, and a renewed waterfront. Agriculture remains significant well beyond the city: dairy farms across the North Country and Southern Tier, apple orchards in the Hudson Valley and around Lake Ontario, and vineyards across the Finger Lakes. With the Port of New York and New Jersey and the inland Port of Albany, the state's water commerce still moves goods far past the five boroughs.
New York's cultural weight runs from the boroughs outward. New York City is a global hub for finance, publishing, and the arts, home to Broadway theaters, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the United Nations headquarters in Manhattan. Niagara Falls, in Niagara County, has drawn travelers since the 1800s and remains one of the state's biggest tourism draws. The Adirondacks and Finger Lakes carry a different kind of cultural identity built on outdoor recreation, wineries, and small mountain towns like Lake Placid, twice host to the Winter Olympics. The Erie Canal, completed in 1825, shaped the Mohawk Valley towns of Rome, Utica, Schenectady, and Syracuse into commercial centers and is still celebrated with canalside festivals and the Erie Canalway Trail. Higher education is spread across the state's counties too, with Columbia University and New York University in Manhattan, Cornell University in Tompkins County, Syracuse University in Onondaga County, the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in Orange County, and the broad State University of New York system anchoring towns from Albany to Buffalo.
On this map, Mount Marcy (Adirondack High Peaks, Essex County) and the Hudson, Mohawk, and St. Lawrence rivers double as landmarks for finding counties quickly. For elevation, terrain, watersheds, and land-cover detail, see our Physical Map of New York.
New York has a humid continental climate across most of the state, with a milder, humid subtropical climate around New York City and Long Island and heavy lake-effect snow near Buffalo, Watertown, and the Tug Hill Plateau. For a full seasonal and biome breakdown, see our Physical Map of New York.
North-south travel runs mainly on I-87 (New York City to Albany, then the Adirondack Northway to the Canadian border) and I-81 (the Pennsylvania line through Syracuse and Watertown toward Canada). East-west travel runs on I-90, the New York State Thruway, from Buffalo through Rochester and Syracuse to Albany, with I-84 crossing the Hudson Valley and I-95 running the coastal corridor through Westchester into Connecticut. Keep in mind that ZIP codes do not follow county lines in New York, so a single ZIP code can span two counties. Always confirm the county name directly from the map or index rather than assuming it from a ZIP prefix.
Use this as a quick index. Every line lists the county with its county seat (and a familiar city when the map labels one). Short cues mention river, border, or gentle corridor context only.
Erie – Buffalo; Tonawanda, Cheektowaga, Hamburg.
Niagara – Lockport; Niagara Falls, Lewiston.
Chautauqua – Mayville; Jamestown, Dunkirk.
Cattaraugus – Little Valley; Olean, Salamanca.
Allegany – Belmont; Wellsville.
Monroe – Rochester; Greece, Henrietta, Pittsford.
Orleans – Albion; Medina.
Genesee – Batavia; Le Roy.
Livingston – Geneseo; Dansville.
Wyoming – Warsaw; Perry.
Ontario – Canandaigua; Geneva, Victor.
Wayne – Lyons; Newark, Sodus.
Seneca – Waterloo and Ovid; Seneca Falls.
Yates – Penn Yan.
Steuben – Bath; Corning, Hornell.
Schuyler – Watkins Glen.
Chemung – Elmira.
Tompkins – Ithaca.
Onondaga – Syracuse; DeWitt, Manlius.
Cayuga – Auburn; Weedsport.
Oswego – Oswego; Fulton, Pulaski.
Madison – Wampsville; Oneida, Cazenovia.
Cortland – Cortland; Homer.
Oneida – Utica; Rome.
Herkimer – Herkimer.
Fulton – Johnstown; Gloversville.
Montgomery – Fonda; Amsterdam.
Saratoga – Ballston Spa; Saratoga Springs.
Schenectady – Schenectady.
Albany – Albany; state capital.
Rensselaer – Troy.
Washington – Fort Edward; Hudson Falls.
Warren – Queensbury; Lake George.
Hamilton – Lake Pleasant.
Essex – Elizabethtown; Lake Placid, Ticonderoga.
Clinton – Plattsburgh.
Franklin – Malone; Saranac Lake.
St. Lawrence – Canton; Ogdensburg, Massena, Potsdam.
Jefferson – Watertown; Thousand Islands.
Lewis – Lowville.
Tioga – Owego.
Broome – Binghamton.
Chenango – Norwich.
Delaware – Delhi; Walton, Deposit.
Sullivan – Monticello.
Otsego – Cooperstown; Oneonta.
Schoharie – Schoharie.
Greene – Catskill.
Columbia – Hudson.
Ulster – Kingston; New Paltz.
Dutchess – Poughkeepsie; Beacon, Hyde Park.
Putnam – Carmel.
Orange – Goshen; Newburgh, Middletown, Port Jervis.
Rockland – New City; Nyack.
Westchester – White Plains; Yonkers, New Rochelle.
New York (Manhattan) – New York City government; no traditional seat.
Kings (Brooklyn) – New York City government; most populous county.
Queens – New York City government; Flushing, Jamaica.
Bronx – New York City government; Fordham, Mott Haven.
Richmond (Staten Island) – New York City government; St. George.
Nassau – Mineola; Hempstead, Glen Cove.
Suffolk – Riverhead; Huntington, Islip, Southampton.
This directory aligns with what you see on the page: every county, its seat, and a one-line locator that keeps the focus on counties rather than driving steps.
New York has 62 counties, including the five New York City boroughs, and the map shows every one with a colored block and county seat label.
County boundaries, county seats, and neighboring states and provinces, with only light road references for orientation.
Albany, in Albany County, on the west bank of the Hudson River.
New York City spans five counties: New York (Manhattan), Kings (Brooklyn), Queens, Bronx, and Richmond (Staten Island).
Erie County.
Monroe County.
Westchester County.
Onondaga County.
Albany, Schenectady, and Rensselaer counties, with Saratoga County just north.
Orange and Rockland by land, plus Richmond, Kings, and New York counties across the harbor and waterways.
From west to east: Chautauqua, Cattaraugus, Allegany, Steuben, Chemung, Tioga, Broome, Delaware, Sullivan, and a corner of Orange.
Westchester, Putnam, and Dutchess.
Rensselaer and Columbia, with Dutchess touching the tri-state corner near Massachusetts and Connecticut.
Clinton and Essex along Lake Champlain, then Washington and Rensselaer by land.
St. Lawrence, Franklin, and Clinton by land, with Jefferson facing Ontario across Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River.
Niagara, Orleans, Monroe, Wayne, Cayuga, Oswego, and Jefferson.
Chautauqua, Erie, and Niagara.
On the Niagara River in Niagara County, between Lake Erie and Lake Ontario.
Otsego County.
Saratoga County.
Essex County.
Tompkins County.
Orange County.
Jefferson and St. Lawrence counties.
Schuyler County.
Nassau and Suffolk.
Suffolk County, on the South Fork and East End.
Dutchess County.
Oneida County.
Broome County.
In a road-light style so counties, county seats, rivers, and lakes stay the most visible features.
Thin lines for I-87, I-90, I-81, I-84, and I-95 mark the main corridors without crowding the county labels.
The Hudson, Mohawk, St. Lawrence, Genesee, and the Susquehanna and Delaware headwaters.
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St. Lawrence County, at about 2,821 square miles.
New York County (Manhattan), at about 33 square miles.
Kings County (Brooklyn), with roughly 2.6 million residents.
Hamilton County, with roughly 5,082 residents.
New York City, with roughly 8.8 million residents across all five boroughs.
Ten counties formed in 1683: Albany, Dutchess, Kings, New York, Orange, Queens, Richmond, Suffolk, Ulster, and Westchester.
No. ZIP codes cross county lines, so use the county boundaries and seats shown here instead.
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