Brooklyn

:For other senses, see Brooklyn (disambiguation).

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Brooklyn is the most populous of the five boroughs of New York City with about 2.5 million inhabitants. Were it still a city, and not only a borough, it would be the fourth-largest city in the United States after New York City itself, Los Angeles and Chicago. An independent city prior to 1898, Brooklyn developed out of the small Dutch-founded town of "Breuckelen" on the East River shore, named after Breukelen in the Netherlands.

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Kings County, coterminous with Brooklyn, is also the most populous county in New York. It was named in honor of King Charles II of England.

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Variously called the "City of Trees", "City of Homes" or the "City of Churches" in the 19th century, Brooklyn is now often styled the "Borough of Homes and Churches" or even sometimes called "The Planet" - given its large diversity, population, and size.

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Borough: A borough is a local government administrative subdivision used in the Canadian province of Quebec, in some states of the United States, and formerly in New Zealand. In the United Kingdom, boroughs are also to be found in England and Northern Ireland....

New York City: :This is an article about New York City; see also NYC, New York, New York (disambiguation) and New York....

United States: :For other uses, see US (disambiguation), USA (disambiguation), and United States (disambiguation)....

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