- York is a walled city, situated at the confluence of the Rivers Ouse and Foss in North Yorkshire, England. The city has a rich heritage and has provided the backdrop to major political events throughout much of its two millennia of existence.
- the English royal house (a branch of the Plantagenet line) that reigned from 1461 to 1485; its emblem was a white rose
- A city in northern England, on the Ouse River; pop. 101,000
- A commercial and industrial city in southeastern Pennsylvania; pop. 42,192
- The southwestern tip of Hayes Peninsula, on Baffin Bay in Greenland. It served as a base for US explorer Robert E. Peary's polar expedition. A 100-ton meteorite found here was brought to the US by Peary
- York was a federal electoral district in New Brunswick, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1867 to 1917.