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Queens is a borough of New York City and is coterminous with Queens County, which was established in 1683 as one of New York's original twelve counties and named for Catherine of Braganza, queen consort of King Charles II.

Queens became a borough of New York City in the 1898 consolidation, and until 1899 Queens County also included the territory that is now Nassau County on Long Island.

Queens had a population of 2,405,464 in the 2020 Census, making it the second most populous borough in New York City - if it were a separate city, it would rank among the most populous in the United States.

Queens is widely regarded as the most linguistically diverse place on Earth, and roughly 47% of its residents were born outside the United States.

Queens has about 841,003 households with an average of 2.72 persons per household, reflecting its dense, family-oriented residential neighborhoods, according to the US Census Bureau.

Queens is the largest borough of New York City by land area, covering about 108.7 square miles at the western end of Long Island.

The Flushing Remonstrance of 1657, signed by settlers in what is now Queens, protested a ban on Quaker worship and is considered a precursor to the religious freedom clause of the US Bill of Rights.

Queens is home to two of the New York area's three major airports - John F. Kennedy International Airport and LaGuardia Airport.

Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Queens, built for the 1939 and 1964 World's Fairs, is home to the Unisphere, Citi Field of the New York Mets, and the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, host of the US Open tennis championships.

Queens is home to St. John's University in Jamaica and Queens College of the City University of New York in Flushing, two of the borough's major institutions of higher education.