Suffolk County, New York

Suffolk County /ˈsʌfək/ is a suburban county located encompassing the eastern portion of Long Island in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2010 census, the population was 1,493,350, making it the fourth-most populous county in New York. Its county seat is Riverhead, though many county offices are in Hauppauge on the west side of the county, where most of the population lives. There are also offices in Smithtown, for the legislature, Yaphank, and Farmingville. It was named after the county of Suffolk in England, from where its earliest settlers came.

Suffolk County is the easternmost county in New York State and is included in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA Metropolitan Statistical Area. The largest of Long Island's four counties, and the second-largest of 62 in the state, Suffolk measures 86 miles (138 km) in length and 26 miles (42 km) in width at its widest (including water).

Suffolk County occupies the eastern two thirds of Long Island, New York, which juts about 120 miles into the Atlantic. The County covers roughly a thousand square miles of territory and is eighty-six miles long and twenty-six miles wide at the widest point. The weather is temperate, clean water abundant, and the soil is good and in fact, Suffolk is the leading agricultural county in the state of New York. That it is still number one in farming despite all of the building developments and urban sprawl is a testament to the excellent soil, favorable weather conditions, and the farmers of this region. There is a cosmopolitan mixture of 1,419,369 people of all kinds today and the population is still growing.

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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffolk_County,_New_York
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Coordinates:  40°56'52"N 72°40'37"W

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  • The real Long Island