Manhattan boundary

The administrative boundary of Manhattan, a municipality in New York County, New York, covering 86.8 km². Get its polygon in one call, as GeoJSON, KML, WKT, GML or SVG.

About 1.7 million people live in Manhattan.

r8398124municipalityadmin_level 7

Facts

Kind: municipality
Admin level: 7
Country: United States
Area: 86.8 km²
Population: 1,694,251
ISO 3166: —
Wikidata: Q11299
OpenStreetMap: r8398124
Centroid: 40.7815, -73.9591
Cached: 2026-11-03

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Polygon as GeoJSON

curl "https://geocodeai.dev/v1/boundaries/r8398124?detail=medium" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $GEOCODE_API_KEY"

Is a point inside Manhattan?

curl -X POST "https://geocodeai.dev/v1/boundaries/r8398124/contains" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $GEOCODE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"points":[[-73.9591,40.7815]]}'

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geojsonhttps://geocodeai.dev/v1/boundaries/r8398124.geojson?detail=medium
kmlhttps://geocodeai.dev/v1/boundaries/r8398124.kml?detail=medium
wkthttps://geocodeai.dev/v1/boundaries/r8398124.wkt?detail=medium
svghttps://geocodeai.dev/v1/boundaries/r8398124.svg?detail=medium
gmlhttps://geocodeai.dev/v1/boundaries/r8398124.gml?detail=medium

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