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Queens is one of the five boroughs of New York City in the United States. It is coterminous with Queens County in the State of New York and is located on western Long Island.
Established on November 1, 1683 when counties were established in New York, it was named for the queen consort, Catherine of Braganza, wife of Charles II. As of 2000, the population is 2,229,379. Its county seat is the district of Jamaica 6, a neighborhood of New York City (the United States Postal ServiceUnited States Postal Service (USPS) is the United States government organization responsible for providing postal service in the United States and is generally referred to as "the post office. It was created to fulfill the mandate in the United States Con divides the borough into four "towns" - Jamaica, Long Island City, Flushing, and Far Rockaway; mail addressed to a residence or business in Queens includes the name of the applicable "town" on the line next below the street address - rather than "Queens, New York" - followed by the zip code).
Queens County in New York State
Queens Borough in New York City
Queens County consists of the northwestern part of Long Island and a few smaller islands, most of which are in Jamaica Bay and form part of Gateway National Recreation Area.
According to the United States Census BureauThe United States Census Bureau (officially Bureau of the Census is a part of the United States Department of Commerce. Its mission is defined in the Constitution of the United States, which directs that the population be enumerated at least once every te, the county has a total area of 461.7 km˛Square kilometre (symbol km is an SI unit of surface area. It is one of the SI derived units. 1 km˛ is equal to: the area of a square measuring 1 kilometre on each side 1 000 000 m˛ 100 hectares 0. 386 102 square miles (statute) 247. 105 381 acres Convers (178.3 mi˛This article is about the unit of measure. In England, the Square Mile is a traditional name for the City of London. A square mile (symbol sq. or mi is an imperial unit which is the area of a square whose side is one mile (or 5,280 feet). A square mile is). 282.9 km˛ (109.2 mi˛) of it is land and 178.8 km˛ (69.0 mi˛) of it is water. The total area is 38.73% water.
Originally, Queens County included the adjacent area now comprising Nassau County. It was an original county of New York State, one of twelve created in 1683. By 1870 Queens County consisted of six towns: Newtown, Flushing, Jamaica, North Hempstead, Hempstead, and Oyster Bay. In 1870, the city of Long Island City was incorporated, consisting of what had been the Village of Astoria and some unincorporated areas in the Town of Newtown. Long Island City, Newtown, Flushing, Jamaica, and the Rockaway Peninsula of the Town of Hempstead became the borough of Queens in Greater New York on January 1, 1898. The part of Queens County that was not annexed to New York City, consisting of the towns of North Hempstead and Oyster Bay and all of the Town of Hempstead except the Rockaway Peninsula, was constituted as the new Nassau County in 1899.