A stage apparatus including a stage movable in a first direction and a
second direction, different from the first direction, the first and
second directions being a horizontal direction, and first and second
measurement systems each having a laser interferometer and a mirror
system including a first reflecting mirror elongated in the first
direction and a second reflecting mirror elongated in the second
direction, and measuring a position of the stage with respect to a
vertical direction based on measurement of a length of a laser beam light
path formed by the mirror system. A switching unit transfers a
measurement value from the first measurement system in use to the second
measurement system and switches the measurement system in use from the
first measurement system to the second measurement system within an
overlapping zone of measurement systems. A first correcting unit corrects
the transferred measurement value.