Originally Posted by Le Grande Orange
In the real world, the population of New York City proper is composed of the sum of its five boroughs: Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island.
In 1990, for example, the total population of NYC was 7,322,564. Broken down by borough it was: Bronx, 1,203,789; Brooklyn, 2,300,664; Manhattan, 1,487,536; Queens, 1,951,598; and Staten Island, 378,977.
If Brooklyn was a separate city, its population of 2.3 million in 1990 would have made it the fourth largest city in the U.S. that year, ahead of Houston's 1.6 million.
(Note that the population of the metropolitan area of New York is even larger due to the surrounding urbanized areas being added to the population of the city itself.)
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