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Long before any Europeans arrived, the area now known as New York City was inhabited by the Native American Lenape tribe.
I doubt that they had a single, specific name for the exact boundaries of land that now constitute the five boroughs of New York City. Why would they? The five boroughs of New York City did not exist at that time. Since they had no reason to think of the land that is now the five boroughs as a single entity, they would not have given it a single, specific name. They had no reason to assign the same boundaries to their land as the Europeans would in the future.
The Lenape name for the general region -- which includes what is now New Jersey, eastern Pennsylvania, northern Delaware, and the southeastern part of New York State (the Hudson River Valley and New York City) -- was, "Lenapehoking."
Their name for the Island of Manhattan was "Mannahatta" or "Manahata."
They called the area now known as Brooklyn, "Canarsee," and today there is a neighborhood in eastern Brooklyn called Canarsie.
"Jameco" was their name for the area of Queens that is now known as the Jamaica neighborhood. The Rockaway neighborhood also got its name from their word for the area, which apparently sounded like, "rack-a-wak-e."
The Lenapes called The Bronx, "Rananchqua," while other Native American tribes called it, "Keskeskeck."
The Lenapes called Staten Island, "Aquehonga Manacknong" and/or "Eghquaons."
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