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Counties of New York Location State of New York Number 62 Populations 5,082 (Hamilton) – 2,561,225 (Kings) Areas 33.77 square miles (87.5 km 2) (New York) – 2,821 square miles (7,310 km 2) (St. Lawrence) Government County government Subdivisions Cities, Towns, Indian Reservations Part of a series on Regions of New York Downstate New York New York City Long Island Hudson Valley (Lower ...
Queens is the largest by area of the five boroughs of New York City, coextensive with Queens County, in the U.S. state of New York.Located near the western end of Long Island, it is bordered by the borough of Brooklyn [5] and by Nassau County to its east, and shares maritime borders with the boroughs of Manhattan, the Bronx, and Staten Island, as well as with New Jersey. [6]
English: General-content map of the present-day borough of Brooklyn (Kings County, New York City) and Queens County before the detachment of its eastern portion in 1898 to form Nassau County. Shows incorporated cities, towns (townships), roads, rural buildings, and rural householders' names; shows street system in urban areas.
Since 1914, each of New York City's five boroughs has been coextensive with a county of New York State – unlike most U.S. cities, which lie within a single county or extend partially into another county, constitute a county in themselves, or are completely separate and independent of any county. Each borough is represented by a borough ...
The following is a series of lists sorted alphabetically of current cities, towns, unincorporated communities, counties, and other recognized places in the U.S. state of New York. They also include information on the number and names of counties in which the places lie and their lower and upper ZIP code bounds, if applicable. Click a letter to ...
The demographics of Queens, the second-most populous borough in New York City, are highly diverse.No racial or ethnic group holds a majority in the borough. Coterminous with Queens County since 1899, the borough of Queens is the second-largest in population (behind Brooklyn), with approximately 2.3 million residents in 2013, approximately 48% of them foreign-born; [1] Queens County is also the ...
The following is a list of the 3,143 counties and county-equivalents in the 50 states and District of Columbia sorted by U.S. state, plus an additional 100 county-equivalents in the U.S. territories sorted by territory.
Queens (disambiguation) for other things named "Queens" or "Queen's" Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name.