List of municipalities in New York

Listed below are former villages in the State of New York which either dissolved, consolidated or were acquired by another municipality between 1900 and 2023. During this period, over 65 villages had chosen dissolution.^[14] A former village does have the option to re-incorporate in the future, if the community chooses to do so. Unless otherwise specified, these communities are currently (or will be) hamlets and considered census-designated places by the U.S. Census Bureau.^[15]

The most populous and largest city by area in the state is by far New York City, home to 8,804,190 people and comprising just over 300 square miles (800 km²) of land (468.87 square miles (1,210 km²) including water). The least populous city is Sherrill, with just 3,071 inhabitants. The smallest city by area is Mechanicville, which covers 0.91 square miles (2.4 km²) (of which 0.08 square miles (0.2 km²) is water).^[18][19]

• Smallest village, by area: South Floral Park – 0.096 square miles (0.25 km²)^[5][13]
• Largest village, by area: Speculator – 44.571 square miles (115.44 km²)^[5][13]
• Smallest village, by population: Dering Harbor – 50 (2020)^[12][5][13]
• Largest village, by population: Hempstead – 59,169 (2020)^[12][5][13]

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  New York City, largest city in New York and the United States, photographed at night.
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  Buffalo, the second largest city in New York
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  Yonkers, the third largest.
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  Rochester, the fourth largest.
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  Syracuse, the fifth largest.
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  Albany, the sixth largest and capital of New York.
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  New Rochelle, the seventh largest.
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  Mount Vernon, the eighth largest
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  Schenectady, the ninth largest.
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  Utica, the tenth largest
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  White Plains, the eleventh largest.
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  Niagara Falls, the twelfth largest.
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  Troy, the thirteenth largest.
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  Binghamton, the fourteenth largest.
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  Long Beach, the sixteenth largest.
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  Poughkeepsie, the seventeenth largest.
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  Jamestown, the nineteenth largest.
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  Watertown, the twenty-fifth largest.

• List of city nicknames in New York
• Administrative divisions of New York
• List of counties in New York
• List of towns in New York
• List of census-designated places in New York
• List of American Indian Reservations in New York (state)