

after New York City itself, Los Angeles, and Chicago.


If Queens were its own city, it would be the fourth most-populous in the U.S. With a population of 2,405,464 as of the 2020 census, Queens is the second-most populous county in New York state, behind Kings County (Brooklyn), and is therefore also the second-most populous of the five New York City boroughs. Queens shares water borders with the boroughs of Manhattan, the Bronx, and Staten Island. It is bordered by the borough of Brooklyn at the western tip of Long Island, with Nassau County to its east. Located on Long Island, it is the largest New York City borough by area. Queens is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Queens County, in the U.S. Official Website of the Queens Borough President
