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EXCELSIOR STATE [1 record]

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Record 1 2013-11-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Place Names (outside Canada)
DEF

One of the Thirteen Colonies, the State of New York became the 11th state of the United States of America in 1788.

OBS

A middle Atlantic state of U.S.A., bounded on north by Lake Ontario and the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec, on east by Vermont, Massachusetts, and Connecticut, on south by Atlantic Ocean, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, on west by Pennsylvania, Lake Erie, and the Canadian province of Ontario.

OBS

N.Y.: Where a name has several elements, each abbreviated by a single letter followed by a period, the elements of the abbreviation are not separated by a space.

OBS

Nicknames: Empire State; Excelsior State.

OBS

Capital: Albany. Chief city: New York.

OBS

NY: The ISO two-letter code to be used only as post symbol in addresses or for data in rows or columns where the number of characters is restricted.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Toponymes (hors Canada)
OBS

L'un des treize États fondateurs, l'État de New York est devenu le 11e État des États-Unis d'Amérique en 1788.

OBS

État du Nord-Est des États-Unis.

OBS

Histoire : [...] annexé par les Anglais en 1664, prend le nom de New York en l'honneur du duc de York, frère de Charles II.

OBS

N.Y. : Lorsqu'un nom a plus d'un élément, et que chaque élément est abrégé par une seule lettre suivie d'un point, ces lettres sont accolées, sans être séparées par une espace.

OBS

Capitale : Albany.

OBS

NY : Code ISO à deux lettres à n'utiliser que comme indicatif de la poste pour l'adressage ou dans les tableaux où les données figurent en colonnes et dans un nombre limité de caractères.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Topónimos (fuera de Canadá)
OBS

Habitante: neoyorquino.

OBS

Nueva York: La Fundación del Español Urgente (Fundéu BBVA), con el asesoramiento de la Real Academia Española, recomienda emplear, si lo hay, el nombre tradicional en español de los estados federados de Estados Unidos.

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