The Five Boroughs
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- 'The Five Boroughs' may also mean The Five Burghs of the Danelaw.
The Five Boroughs is phrase used to denote the five boroughs of New York City. It is used to unambiguously refer to the city as a whole, as opposed to any particular borough or to the greater metropolitan area. It is also used, often by politicians representing the residents of New York City, to counter a natural focus on Manhattan and refer to each of the boroughs equally. The map demonstrates this agenda: in it Manhattan (though numbered 1) is simply one of the "Five Boroughs".
The five boroughs, alphabetically, are:
By contrast, the phrase "the City", when used within the region, is often taken to imply only the island of Manhattan: Downtown, Midtown and the Upper West and Upper East Sides. The term "New York" itself is often taken to refer to the State of New York, including the Five Boroughs and "The Island" (Long Island), whereas "Upstate New York" never includes New York City or Long Island, and usually does not include the areas just north of The Bronx. The greater metropolitan area, including the suburbs in New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey, is sometimes called "the Tri-State Region," or simply "the Tri-State."
