New York City

**New York**, often called **New York City** (**NYC**), is the most populous city in the U.S. state of New York, and the largest city in the United States. It is at the southern end of the U.S. state of New York. Over 8 million people currently live in the city, and over 22 million people live in the bigger New York metropolitan area. It is the financial capital of the U.S. because it is home to the nation's stock market, Wall Street, and the World Trade Center.

New York City is on one of the world's largest natural harbors. It is made up of five boroughs, each of which is a county of the state of New York. The five boroughs—Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, the Bronx, and Staten Island—were combined into one city in 1898. The city and its metropolitan area are an important place for legal immigration to the United States. As many as 800 languages are spoken in New York, making it the most linguistically diverse city in the world. New York has more than 3.2 million people born outside the United States, the biggest foreign-born population of any city in the world as of 2016.

## Infobox (settlement)

- **name**: New York
- **subdivision type**: List of sovereign states, Country
- **settlement type**: City (New York), City
- **named for**: James II of England, James, Duke of York
- **image flag**: Flag of New York City.svg
- **image seal**: Seal of New York City BW.svg
- **image blank emblem**: NYC Logo Wolff Olins.svg
- **blank emblem type**: Wordmark
- **nicknames**: _The Big Apple_, _The City That Never Sleeps (nickname), The City That Never Sleeps_, _Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898, Gotham_, and _Nicknames of New York City, others_
- **map caption**: Interactive map of New York City
- **subdivision type2**: U.S. state, State
- **subdivision type3**: List of regions of the United States, Region
- **subdivision name3**: Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic
- **subdivision type4**: County (United States), Constituent counties (Boroughs of New York City, boroughs)
- **subdivision name4**: The Bronx, Bronx (The Bronx)
Brooklyn, Kings (Brooklyn)
Manhattan, New York (Manhattan)
Queens, Queens (Queens)
Staten Island, Richmond (Staten Island)
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- **subdivision type5**: Colony, Historic colonies
- **subdivision name5**: New Netherland
Province of New York
- **established title**: Settled
- **established date**: 1624
- **established title1**: City of Greater New York, Consolidated
- **established date1**: 1898
- **government type**: Strong Mayor, Strong mayor–council
- **governing body**: New York City Council
- **leader title**: Mayor of New York City, Mayor
- **leader name**: Zohran Mamdani (Democratic Party (United States), D)
- **total type**: Total
- **unit pref**: Imperial
- **area total sq mi**: 472.4
- **area land sq mi**: 300.5
- **area water sq mi**: 172.0
- **area total km2**: 1223.6
- **area land km2**: 778.2
- **area water km2**: 445.4
- **area metro sq mi**: 13318
- **elevation m**: 10
- **elevation ft**: 33
- **population rank**: List of United States cities by population, 1st in the United States
List of cities in New York, 1st in New York
- **population as of**: 2020 United States Census, 2020
- **population total**: 8804190
- **population metro**: 20,140,470 (List of metropolitan statistical areas, 1st)
- **population density sq mi**: 29303.2
- **population density km2**: 11314.0
- **population demonym**: New Yorker
- **blank6 name**: GDP (City, 2019)
- **blank6 info**: $884 billion (1st)
- **blank7 name**: Gross metropolitan product, GMP (Metro, 2020)
- **blank7 info**: $1.67 trillion (1st)
- **postal code type**: ZIP Codes
- **postal code**: 100xx–104xx, 11004–05, 111xx–114xx, 116xx
- **area code**: Area codes 212, 646, and 332, 212/646/332, Area codes 718, 347, and 929, 718/347/929, Area code 917, 917
- **blank name**: Federal Information Processing Standards, FIPS code
- **blank info**: 36-51000
- **blank1 name**: Geographic Names Information System, GNIS feature ID
- **blank1 info**: 975772
- **blank2 name**: Major airports
- **blank2 info**: John F. Kennedy International Airport, JFK Airport
Newark Liberty International Airport, Newark Liberty Airport
LaGuardia Airport
Islip Airport
White Plains Airport
Stewart International Airport, Stewart Airport
- **blank4 name**: Commuter rail
- **blank4 info**: LIRR, Metro-North, NJ Transit Rail Operations, NJ Transit
- **blank5 name**: Rapid transit
- **blank5 info**:

- **blank name sec2**: Largest Boroughs of New York City, borough by area
- **blank info sec2**: Queens ()
- **blank1 name sec2**: Largest borough by population
- **blank1 info sec2**: Brooklyn (2020 census: 2,736,074)
- **blank2 name sec2**: Largest borough by GDP (2019)
- **blank2 info sec2**: Manhattan ($635.3 billion)
- **utc offset1**: −05:00
- **utc offset1 dst**: −04:00
- **timezone1**: Eastern Time Zone, EST
- **timezone1 dst**: Eastern Time Zone, EDT