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Schenectady County
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county in New York, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- New York
- Named after
- Mohawk skahn-éht-ati , "beyond the pines"
- Seat
- Schenectady
- Largest city
- Schenectady
- Total
- 209 sq mi (540 km )
- Land
- 205 sq mi (530 km )
- Water
- 4.9 sq mi (13 km ) 2.3%
- Estimate 2025
- 162,581
- Density
- 772.3/sq mi (298.2/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( Eastern )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 ( EDT )
- Congressional district
- 20th
- Website
- www .schenectadycountyny .gov
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Schenectady County (/skəˈnɛktədi/) is a county in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2020 census, the population was 158,061. The county seat is Schenectady. The name is from a Mohawk language word meaning "on the other side of the pine lands," a term that originally applied to Albany. The county is part of the Capital District region of the state.
Schenectady County is part of the Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY Metropolitan Statistical Area, and is west of the confluence of the Mohawk with the Hudson River. It includes territory on the north and the south sides of the Mohawk River.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Schenectady County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.