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The New York metropolitan area, broadly referred to as the Tri-State area and often also called Greater New York, is the largest metropolitan economy in the world, with a gross metropolitan product of over US$2.6 trillion, [10] and the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban landmass, [11] [12] encompassing 4,669.0 sq mi (12,093 km 2). [13]
Metropolitan area Country Population Year Notes Mexico City Mexico: 21,804,515 2020 [1] New York United States: 19,563,798 2022 New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ Metro Area [2] Los Angeles United States: 12,870,137 2022 Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA Metro Area [2] Chicago United States: 9,279,427 2022 Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN Metro ...
Throughout this period, New York City remained a hub for immigrants, with the foreign-born population peaking at 37.51% in 2010. Overall, these trends reflect the transformation of New York City into an increasingly multicultural metropolis, with a progressive homogenization of the proportions of the different racial groups that live in the city.
City of New York population by year [1] [2] [3]; 1656: 1,000 1690: 6,000 1790: 33,131 1800: 60,515 1810: 96,373 1820: 123,706 1830: 202,589 1840: 312,710 1850: ...
The Jewish population in New York City exploded from 80,000 Jews in 1880 to 1.5 million in 1920, as Jews from Eastern Europe fled pogroms and discrimination. [97] The Jewish population peaked at 2.2 million in 1940. A large portion of the population suburbanized after World War II, [91] as a part of the larger trend of White flight.
When the United States declared independence in 1776, Philadelphia was its most populous city. By the time the first U.S. census count was completed in 1790, New York City had already grown to be 14% more populous than Philadelphia (though Philadelphia still had the larger metropolitan population in 1790).
It is south of Westchester County; north and east of the New York City borough of Manhattan, across the Harlem River; and north of the New York City borough of Queens, across the East River. The Bronx, the only New York City borough not primarily located on an island, has a land area of 42 square miles (109 km 2 ) and a population of 1,472,654 ...
Based on data from the 2020 census, New York City comprises about 43.6% of the state's population of 20,202,320, [4] and about 39% of the population of the New York metropolitan area. [246] The majority of New York City residents in 2020 (5,141,539 or 58.4%) were living in Brooklyn or Queens, the two boroughs on Long Island. [ 247 ]