I have always wondered this about NY City.?

They are all different boroughs - a borough is kind of like a county. In fact, they are separate counties - Queens is Queens County, Brooklyn is called Kings County (kings and queens, get it?)

And together the 5 boroughs make up New York City - it's one of the few places where a city is bigger than a county. Usually counties are made up of several cities, but NYC is the opposite.

Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx, Manhattan, and Staten Island are all the City of New York a.k.a New York City...

Brookyln, Queens, Bronx, Manhattan, and Staten Island are called boroughs

Each Borough is somewhat independant by having a Borough President, Council, etc but they have little power

When people who are not from here usually say that Manhattan is New York City alone.

There are 5 boroughs that make up NYC: Manhattan, Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island.

New York City consists of five different boroughs. Manhattan, Queens and Brooklyn, The Bronx and Staten Island. So together, they form NYC.

They city of New York, from 1622(as New Amsterdam) to 1898, was a city within New York county, which composed of Manhattan Island and after 1874, sections of what is today the west bronx. across the east river from New York was Kings county, home to the city of Brooklyn and several smaller cities that by 1896 had been annex by Brooklyn And Queens county to it's north, home to the city of Long Island City and the towns of Newtown, Jamaica, Flushing, Hempstead, North Hempstead and Oyster Bay. To the south from New York was the county of Richmond, on Staten Island, made up of a bunch of small villages.

In 1894, a vote was taken, and this was the general result in the long run. the creation of a new kind of local governmental unit; the "Borough". the Laws of New York State say a Borough is when a county and it's municipalities merge to form a single unit. Five of these boroughs were created on January first, 1898.

the City of Brooklyn, which by that point fulled the entire county, was merged with the county of Kings to form the Borough of Brooklyn.

The small towns of Richmond where merged with it to become the borough of Richmond, which in 1975 renamedimed Boroughough of Staten Island.

In Queens county the vote was split, so so was the county. the western half, whretainedined the name queens was made up of Newtown, FlushiJamaicaacia, Long Island City, and the Rockaway Peninsula became boroughough of Queens. the Eastern half (hempstead, North Hempstead and Oyster Bay) became the modern county of Nassau.

Part of the vote took land from Westchester county, to the north (now the eastern bronx) and merged it with the west into the brorough of The Bronx (alway remember the "The", it's part of the name). and an new county was created, Bronx county

Manhattan Island, and the surrounding smaller islands such as what is now called Roosevelt Island, became the borough of Manhattan.

Now, what happened was the state elivated the New York City government to be supperior to thses five boroughs, forming the amagamted City of New York as it is known today. the broroughs are, by themselves still granted some county powers (each has it's own district attorney, for example), but they are inffiror to the city government. basicly, in New York city, the county is a lower form of government than the city.

The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens and Staten Island are togther known as "the Five Broroughs", a nickname for the City that puts all five on equal footing. But they are 5 parts to one whole city.

Those are the boroughs of New York City, and you forgot Staten Island. It isn't like living in a different city, because City Hall is still in the borough of Manhatta, but the city is so big--more than 6 million people living here, you really don't want all of those people to have to go to the same location, do you? And each borough has different issues that need to be bargained out. Queens has the airports, so that borough needs someone to be in charge of that situation--Manh. has all the big business--Brooklyn had all the factories, etc. Each borough has its own president...it is so complicated, I am not sure how it works myself, only to say New York City really is one city. With a lot of people, who need a lot of people (government), to fight for their individual needs.

There are all boroughs. A borough is an administrative division of various countries. In principle, the term borough designates a self-governing township although, in practice, official use of the term varies widely.

Manhattan is the smallest borough in the city. Nicknamed "The City", it is only 22 miles (35 km) long north to south, and 2 miles (3 km) wide at it center, which is along 42nd Street. Manhattan is home to several well known landmarks, including the Empire State Building, Central Park and Times Square.

The Bronx is the northern most boroughs in the city. It is the only borough that is connected to the rest of the country (all the boroughs are islands) and it famous for being the home to the Bronx Zoo and Yankee Stadium (home of the New York Yankee)

Queens is the largest borough in the city, in size, and one of two boroughs that make up Long Island (the other is Brooklyn). Like the rest of New York City, Queens has very diverse population from country all over the world. Just think of it as a "mini United Nation".

Brooklyn is the second largest borough in the city, in size, and like Queens, it make up part of Long Island. It is one most populous borough in the city and is famous for both Coney Island and Brooklyn Bridge.

Staten Island is the borough on the southern side of the New York Harbor. Unlike, the rest of the city, Staten Island has a suburban feel. Think of as a small town in the middle of a big city.

I hope this information is very helpful.

Good luck

Native New Yorker

Yes and also Staten Island. They r all separate boroughs but in one city.

Yep the 5 boroughs make up NYC

NYC is the 5 boroughs which yo already listed above