The Bronx

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The Bronx
Burgh o New York Ceety
Bronx County
Concourse Village an Yankee Stadium
Eik-name(s): 
"The Boogie Down Bronx"
Motto(s): 
"Ne cede malis" - "Yield Not To Evil"
The Bronx is shown in orange.
The Bronx is shown in orange.
Coordinates: 40°50′14″N 73°53′10″W  /  40.83722°N 73.88611°W  / 40.83722; -73.88611
Kintra Unitit States
State New York
Coonty Bronx
Ceety New York Ceety
Burgh creatit 1898  ( Coonty in 1914)
Govrenment
 ? Teep Burgh (New York Ceety)
 ?  Burg Preses Ruben Diaz, Jr.
? (Borough of the Bronx)
 ?  Destrict     Attorney Robert T. Johnson
? (Bronx County)
Area
 ? Total 150 km 2 (57 sq mi)
 ? Laund 110 km 2 (42 sq mi)
 ? Water 40 km 2 (15 sq mi)
Highest elevation
90 m (280 ft)
Population
  (2015)
 ? Total 1,455,444 [1]
 ? Density 13,379.8/km 2 (34653.4/sq mi)
Time zone UTC-5 ( Eastren Staundart Time (North Americae) )
 ? Summer ( DST ) UTC-4 (Eastren Daylicht Time)
ZIP Code
104 + twa digits
Area code(s) 347 , 718 , 917 . 646 .
Website Offeecial wabsteid o the Bronx Burgh Preses

The Bronx is the northmaist o the five burghs o New York Ceety . Coextensive wi Bronx Coonty , it wis the last o the 62 counties o New York State tae be incorporatit. Locatit north o Manhattan an Queens , an sooth o Westchester Coonty , the Bronx is the anerlie burgh that is locatit primarily on the mainland (a vera sma portion o Manhattan, the Marble Hill neebourheid, is pheesically locatit on the mainland, due tae the reroutin o the Harlem River in 1897). The Bronx's population is 1,455,444 in 2015, [1] The burgh haes a laund aurie o 42 square mile (109 km 2 ), makkin it the fowert-lairgest in laund aurie o the five burghs, the fowert maist populatit, an the third-heichest in densitie o population . [2] [3]

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  1. a b "State & County QuickFacts ? Bronx County (Bronx Borough), New York" . United States Census Bureau. Archived frae the original on 18 Julie 2011 . Retrieved 24 Mairch 2016 .
  2. U.S. Census Bureau , County and City Data Book:2007 Table B-1, Area and Population, retrieved on July 12, 2008. New York County (Manhattan) wis the naition's densest-populatit coonty, follaeed bi Kings County (Brooklyn), Bronx County, Queens County an San Francisco, Californie.
  3. While the Bronx haes an aurie o anerlie 42 square mile (109 km 2 ), it haes mair residents than the 665,000 square mile (1,700,000 km 2 ) o Alaska an Wyoming combined, accordin tae Table 348 o the Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2008 Rankit auries o the burghs frae U.S. Census Bureau , County and City Data Book:2007 Table B-1, Area and Population, retrieved on July 13, 2008.