With a land area of 70.82 square miles (183.4 km 2) and a water area of 26 square miles (67 km 2), Kings County is the state of New York's fourth-smallest county by land area and third smallest by total area.īrooklyn was founded by the Dutch in the 17th century and grew into a busy port city by the 19th century. It has several bridge and tunnel connections to the borough of Manhattan, across the East River, and is connected to Staten Island by way of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge. Named after the Dutch town of Breukelen, Brooklyn is located on the westernmost edge of Long Island and shares a border with the borough of Queens. after the rest of New York City and Los Angeles, and ahead of Chicago.
If Brooklyn were an independent city, it would be the third most populous in the U.S.
Brooklyn is also New York City's most populous borough, with 2,736,074 residents in 2020. Kings County is the most populous county in the State of New York, and the second-most-densely-populated county in the United States, behind New York County ( Manhattan). Brooklyn is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Kings County, in the U.S.
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