Utica () is a city in the Mohawk Valley and the county seat of Oneida County, New York, United States. The tenth-most-populous city in New York, its population was 62,235 in the 2010 U.S. census. Located on the Mohawk River at the foot of the Adirondack Mountains, Utica is approximately northwest of Albany, east of Syracuse and northwest of New York City. Utica and the nearby city of Rome anchor the Utica-Rome Metropolitan Statistical Area, which comprises all of Oneida and Herkimer counties.