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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...