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Long Island is the most populous island and one of the most densely populated regions in the United States. At the 2020 U.S. census, the total population of all four counties of Long Island was 8,063,232, comprising 40% of the population of the State of New York. As of 2020, the proportion of New York City residents (total 8,804,190) living on ...
Long Island is in southeastern New York, United States, separated from the rest of the state by the East River and from Connecticut by Long Island Sound. Long Island contains four counties, of which the western two are boroughs ( Queens and Brooklyn) of New York City, and the other two ( Nassau and Suffolk) are mainly suburban .
Map of Long Island showing county and municipal boundaries. Further information: Administrative divisions of New York (state) In New York State , each county is divided into cities and towns .
NEW YORK - The New York City metropolitan area has 10 of the nation's top 25 safest counties, according to a new report, and the highest rank is Long Island's very own Nassau County. According to ...
Suffolk County ( / ˈsʌfək /) is the easternmost county in the U.S. state of New York, constituting the eastern two-thirds of Long Island. It is bordered to its west by Nassau County, to its east by Gardiners Bay and the open Atlantic Ocean, to its north by Long Island Sound, and to its south by the Atlantic Ocean.
Nassau County ( / ˈnæsɔː / NASS-aw) is a suburban county located on Long Island, immediately to the east of New York City, bordering the Long Island Sound on the north and the open Atlantic Ocean to the south. As of the 2020 United States census, Nassau County's population was 1,395,774, making it the sixth-most populous county in the State ...
Politically, Nassau and Suffolk counties were long controlled by the Republican Party. Republican presidential candidates won both counties from 1900 until 1988, with the exception of the 1912 victory of Woodrow Wilson and the Lyndon B. Johnson landslide of 1964. In 1972, Richard Nixon won Nassau, Suffolk, and Queens, and came within 14,000 ...
Long Island's Nassau and Suffolk counties are home to 125 public school districts, containing a total of 656 public schools. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The list below contains each of Long Island's school districts, along with their respective schools.