Editing Union City, New Jersey (section)

==Geography==
According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the city had a total area of 1.29 square miles (3.33&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>), all of which was land.<ref name=CensusArea/><ref name=GR1 /> Part of the [[New York metropolitan area]],<ref name=Metropolitan>[https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/metroarea/stcbsa_pg/Feb2013/cbsa2013_NJ.pdf NEW JERSEY - Core Based Statistical Areas (CBSAs) and Counties], [[United States Census Bureau]]. Accessed August 28, 2017.</ref> it is one of the municipalities which comprise [[North Hudson, New Jersey|North Hudson]]. Located atop the ridge of the lower [[Hudson Palisades]] (just south of the highest point in the county),<ref>[http://www.peakbagger.com/peak.aspx?pid=7139 Hudson County Highest Point], peakbagger.com. Accessed January 8, 2010.</ref> many of its streets offer glimpses and views of the surrounding municipalities, the [[New York City]] skyline, and the [[New Jersey Meadowlands]].

The city is bisected by [[New Jersey Route 495]], a vehicular [[Cut (earthmoving)|cut]] built in conjunction with the [[Lincoln Tunnel]]. Soon after its construction, many street names were abandoned in favor of numbering in most of North Hudson starting at 2nd Street, just north of [[Paterson Plank Road]], which runs through the city's only major park and creates its border with [[Jersey City, New Jersey|Jersey City]]. 49th Street is the northern boundary with [[West New York, New Jersey|West New York]]. Apart from a small section between [[Bergen Turnpike]] and [[Weehawken Cemetery]], [[county Route 501 (New Jersey)|Kennedy Boulevard]], a major north–south thoroughfare, creates the western border with [[North Bergen, New Jersey|North Bergen]]. A former colonial road and previous border between the merged municipalities takes three names as it diagonally crosses the city's urban grid: [[Hackensack Plank Road|Hackensack Plank Road, 32nd Street, and Bergen Turnpike]]. Most of the city north of the street, formerly Union Hill, shares its eastern border along Park Avenue with [[Weehawken, New Jersey|Weehawken]]. The southern section of the city, formerly West Hoboken, is indeed west of [[Hoboken, New Jersey|Hoboken]],<ref name=Story/> which it overlooks and is connected by the road which creates their shared border, the [[14th Street (Hoboken)|Wing Viaduct]].<ref name="Hagstrom Map Company, Inc">{{Cite book| publisher = Hagstrom Map Company, Inc. | isbn = 978-0-88097-763-0| title = Hudson County New Jersey Street Map | year = 2008}}</ref>

The city borders the Hudson County municipalities of [[Hoboken, New Jersey|Hoboken]], [[Jersey City, New Jersey|Jersey City]], [[North Bergen, New Jersey|North Bergen]], [[Weehawken, New Jersey|Weehawken]] and [[West New York, New Jersey|West New York]].<ref>[https://global.mapit.mysociety.org/area/1010606/touches.html Areas touching Union City], MapIt. Accessed March 14, 2020.</ref><ref>[http://chnj.njpn.org/hudson-county/ Hudson County Map] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200430114258/http://chnj.njpn.org/hudson-county/ |date=April 30, 2020 }}, Coalition for a Healthy NJ. Accessed March 14, 2020.</ref><ref>[https://www.state.nj.us/transportation/gis/maps/polnoroads.pdf New Jersey Municipal Boundaries], [[New Jersey Department of Transportation]]. Accessed November 15, 2019.</ref> It is the only municipality in Hudson County to be entirely surrounded by other county municipalities.