Geography
Teaneck is located at 40°53′25″N 74°00′41″W / 40.890317°N 74.011478°W / 40.890317; -74.011478 (40.890317,-74.011478). According to the United States Census Bureau, the township had a total area of 6.226 square miles (16.127 km2), of which, 6.006 square miles (15.557 km2) of it is land and 0.22 square miles (0.57 km2) of it (3.54%) is water.
Teaneck is bordered to the west by River Edge and Hackensack which lie across the Hackensack River, to the north by New Milford and Bergenfield, to the east by Englewood and Leonia, and to the south by Ridgefield Park and Bogota.
Teaneck has 24 municipal parks, of which 14 are developed. Overpeck County Park, along the shores of Overpeck Creek, a tributary of the Hackensack River, is more than 8,000 acres (32 km2) in size, of which about 500 were donated by Teaneck, and which is also in portions of Englewood, Leonia, Ridgefield Park and Palisades Park.
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