Batavia is a city in and the county chair of Genesee County, New York, United States. It is close the middle of the county, surrounded by the Town of Batavia, which is a cut off municipality. Batavia’s population as of the 2020 census was 15,600. The name Batavia is Latin for the Betuwe region of the Netherlands, and honors to the front Dutch house developers. In 2006, a national magazine, Site Selection, ranked Batavia third along with the nation’s micropolitans based on economic development. The New York State Thruway (Interstate 90) passes north of the city. Genesee County Airport (GVQ) is in addition to north of the city.

The city hosts the Batavia Muckdogs baseball team of the Perfect Game Collegiate Baseball League, at Dwyer Stadium (299 Bank Street). The Muckdogs formerly were an affiliate of the Miami Marlins. They won the 2008 New York Penn League Championship.

The city’s UN/LOCODE is USBIA.

The current City of Batavia was an early concurrence in what is today called Genesee Country, the farthest western region of New York State, comprising the Genesee Valley and westward to the Niagara River, Lake Erie, and the Pennsylvania line. The tract purchased in western New York (the Holland Purchase) was a 3,250,000 acre (13,150 km) portion of the Phelps and Gorham Purchase that lay west of the Genesee River. It was purchased in December 1792, February 1793, and July 1793 from Robert Morris, a prominent Revolutionary banker, by the Holland Land Company, a consortium of Dutch bankers.