Long Island

Long Island, NY is the biggest island in the continental United States. About 8 million people live there. The majority live in the western part, in Brooklyn and Queens. The other people live in two counties. Nassau County is in the central area, and Suffolk County fills approximately the eastern half. To the north is Long Island Sound and to the south is the Atlantic Ocean. There are almost 200 Long Island Towns on Long Island, NY. While the areas closest to New York City are urban with a high population density, the central and eastern parts of Long Island are more rural with a lower population density.

The East River separates Long Island from Manhattan island and the Bronx mainland. The Narrows separates it from Staten Island. Long Island is a terminal moraine left by glaciers during the ice ages.

The 2020 census counted 8,063,232 people living on Long Island, making it by far the most populated island in all of the United States, and more populated than Ireland, Sicily or Puerto Rico. Long Island is in the Eastern Time Zone.

The term "Long Island" often refers only to the mostly suburban counties of Nassau and Suffolk because Brooklyn and Queens are part of New York City.

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Long Island Media

Native American settlements on Long Island in 1600
A circa 1860 portrait of three Lenape Indians
The Old House, built in 1699 in Cutchogue
Excerpt from the 1685 Novi Belgii Novæque Angliæ map by Nicolaes Visscher II with "'t Lange Eylandt alias Matouwacs" in red
The Brooklyn Bridge, one of several bridges crossing the East River and connecting Long Island with Manhattan
Manhasset Bay, along the North Shore of Nassau County, as seen on a map from 1917
Oheka Castle, a North Shore estate in West Hills and the second-largest private residence in the country
The Brooklyn Tower, a 93-story supertall skyscraper in Downtown Brooklyn, the tallest building on Long Island as of 2021 at a height of 1,073 feet (327 m)
Montauk Point Light, in East Hampton on Long Island’s East End
The four counties of Long Island include two independent counties, Nassau and Suffolk, and two New York City boroughs, Brooklyn and Queens

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