Syracuse ( or ) is a
city in, and the
county seat of,
Onondaga County,
New York, United States. It is the largest U.S. city with the name "
Syracuse", and is the fourth most populous metropolitan city in the state of New York. At the
2010 census, the city population was 145,170, and its
metropolitan area had a population of 732,117. It is the economic and educational hub of
Central New York, a region with over a million inhabitants. Syracuse is also well-provided with convention sites, with a
downtown convention complex and, directly west of the city, the
Empire Expo Center, which hosts the annual
Great New York State Fair. Syracuse was named after the original
Syracuse (Siracusa in Italian), a city on the eastern coast of the
Italian island of
Sicily.