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Manhattan is one of the five boroughs of New York City, located primarily on Manhattan Island at the mouth of the Hudson River(哈得孙河). Manhattan is the third-largest of New Yorks five boroughs in population but the smallest in area.Manhattan is a major commercial, financial, and cultural center of both the United States and the world.Most major radio, television, and telecommunications companies in the United States are based here, as well as many news, magazine, book, and other media publishers The origin of Manhatta The name Manhattan derives from the word Manna-hata, as written in the 1609 logbook of Robert Juet, an officer on Henry Hudsons yacht Halve Maen (Half Moon). A 1610 map depicts the name as Manna-hata, twice, on both the west and east sides of the Mauritius River (later named the Hudson River). The word Manhattan has been translated as island of many hills from the Lenape language. New York County is one of seven counties in the United States to share the same name as the state in which they are located. The others are Arkansas, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Oklahoma, and Utah counties. The United States Postal Service prefers that mail addressed to Manhattan use New York, NY rather than Manhattan, NY. 西元1609年，荷兰西印度公司代表亨利．哈德逊〈Henry Hudson〉发现了这块地方，1626 年荷属美洲新尼德兰省总督彼得〈Peter Minuit〉花了大约现值 24美元向美国印第安人买下曼哈顿岛。 1633年在这里建造了第一个教堂，1653年曼哈顿成为新尼德兰省省府，并命名为新阿姆斯特丹〈New Amsterdam〉 1653年前新阿姆斯特丹的人口只有800人。之后大英帝国宣称哈得逊河流域〈Hudson River〉是英国的土地，到了1664年约克公爵派遣了一队人马把这块地以不流血的方式从荷兰人手中夺来，并于1686年四月二十七日改名纽约并建市。 一七八五年至一七九○年，纽约市曾为美国国都，首任总统华盛顿曾于一七八九年在纽约市就职。曼哈顿街道大抵以数字来命名，南北走向称大道〈Avenue〉，东西走向称街 〈Street〉，街又以第五大道为分界点再分东街、西街。 城市地标及名胜 帝国大厦（The Empire State Building） 百老汇（Broadway） 华尔街（Wall Street） 卡内基音乐厅（Carnegie Hall） 林肯表演艺术中心（Lincoln Center For The Performing Arts） 大都会艺术博物馆（Metropolitan Museum of Art） 美国自然历史博物馆（Museum Of Natural History） 惠特尼美术馆（Whitney Museum of American Art） 古根海姆美术馆（The Guggenheim Museum） 现代艺术博物馆（The Museum Of Modern Art - MoMA） 纽约广播博物馆（Museum of Broadcasting） 中央公园（Central Pa