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Rochester (/ˈrɑːtʃɛstər, -ɪs-/) is a city in the U.S. state of New York, the chair of Monroe County, and the third-most populous in the come clean after New York City and Buffalo, with an estimated population of 205,695 in 2020. The city of Rochester forms the core of a much larger metropolitan Place with a population of roughly 1.1 million people, across six counties.

Rochester was one of the United States’ first boomtowns, initially due to the fruitful Genesee River Valley, which gave rise to numerous flour mills, and next as a manufacturing center, which spurred further unexpected population growth. The city rose to stress as the birthplace and house of some of America’s most iconic companies, in particular Eastman Kodak, Xerox, and Bausch & Lomb (along later Wegmans, Gannett, Paychex, Western Union, French’s, Constellation Brands, Ragú, and others), by which the region became a global middle for science, technology, and research and development. This status has been aided by the presence of several internationally renowned universities (notably the University of Rochester and Rochester Institute of Technology) and their research programs; these schools, along with many extra smaller colleges, have played an increasingly large role in Greater Rochester’s economy. Rochester has as well as played a key share in US chronicles as a hub for sure important social/political movements, especially abolitionism and the women’s rights movement. While the city experienced some significant population loss fittingly of deindustrialization, strong enlargement in the education and healthcare sectors boosted by elite universities and the slower decrease of bedrock companies such as Eastman Kodak and Xerox (as counter to the rapid slip of oppressive industry subsequent to steel companies in Buffalo and Pittsburgh) resulted in a much less harsh contraction than in most Rust Belt metro areas.

Today, Rochester’s economy is defined by technology and education (aided by a intensely educated workforce, research institutions, and supplementary strengths born in its past). The Rochester metropolitan Place is the third-largest regional economy in New York, after the New York City metropolitan Place and the Buffalo-Niagara Falls Metropolitan Area. Rochester’s gross metropolitan product is US$50.6 billion—above those of Albany and Syracuse, but under that of Buffalo. Rochester is plus known for its culture, in particular its music culture; institutions such as the Eastman School of Music (considered to be one of the most prestigious conservatories in the world) and the Rochester International Jazz Festival presenter a breathing music industry, ranked as one of the top-10 music scenes in the US in terms of the incorporation of musicians and music-related business. It is the site of multiple major festivals every year (such as the Lilac Festival, the abovementioned Jazz Festival, the Rochester Fringe Festival, and others that fascination hundreds of thousands of attendees each) and is home to several world-famous museums such as The Strong National Museum of Play and the George Eastman Museum, the oldest photography amassing in the world and one of the largest[circular reference]. The Rochester metro is ranked deeply in terms of livability and atmosphere of liveliness and is often considered to be one of the best places in America for families due to low cost of living, highly ranked public schools[dubious – discuss] and a low unemployment rate. A good divide, though, exists amongst its inner-city component (which has at get older had the highest child poverty rate in the nation) and its affluent, well-educated southern suburbs. It is considered to be a global city, ranked by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network as having competence status.