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This article is about the New York City borough. For other uses, see Queens (disambiguation).

Queens

Queens, New York

Borough of New York City

Queens County

Clockwise from top-left: Unisphere, Rockaway Park beach, US Open's Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, Queensboro Bridge, Flushing-bound 7 train, New York Mets—Citi Field.

Flag

Seal

Location of Queens, shown in red, in New York City

Coordinates: 40°45′N 73°52′WCoordinates: 40°45′N 73°52′W

Country

United States of America

State

New York

County

Queens

City

New York City

Settled

1683

Government

• Type

Borough (New York City)

• Borough President

Melinda Katz (D)

— (Borough of Queens)

• District Attorney

Richard Brown

— (Queens County)

Area

• Total

178 sq mi (460 km2)

• Land

109 sq mi (280 km2)

• Water

70 sq mi (200 km2) 39%

Population (2014)

• Total

2,321,580[1]

• Density

21,333/sq mi (8,237/km2)

ZIP Code prefixes

110--, 111--, 113--, 114--, 116--

Area code(s)

718, 347, 917

Website

Official Website of the Queens Borough President

Queens is the easternmost and largest in area of the five boroughs of New York City, geographically adjacent to the borough of Brooklyn at the western end of Long Island. Coterminous with Queens County since 1899, the borough of Queens is the second-largest in population (behind Brooklyn), with a Census-estimated 2,321,580 residents in 2014, approximately 48% of them foreign-born.[1] Queens County is also the second most populous county in New York State, behind neighboring Kings County, which is coterminous with the borough of Brooklyn. Queens is the fourth-most densely populated county among New York City's boroughs, as well as in the United States; and if each New York...