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Manhattan is an island borough of New York City, New York, USA, coterminous with New York County. With a 2000 population of 1,537,195[New York—Place and County Subdivision, United States Census Bureau, accessed 2007-05-01.] living in a land area of 22.96 square miles (59.47 km²), it is the most densely populated county in the United States at 66,940 residents per square mile (25,846/km²).[District Profile: New York City, Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Accessed 2006-09-04.] The borough consists of Manhattan Island, Roosevelt Island, Randalls Island, almost 1/10th of Ellis Island,[[1], New Jersey v. New York, 523 U.S. 767 (1998), accessed 2008-01-04.] the above-water portion of Liberty Island, several much smaller islands, and a small section on the mainland adjacent to the Bronx.
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New York, USA
