Mos Def birthplace

Long Island, the island located in the southeast part of the U.S. state of New York, just east of Manhattan

New York–Northern New Jersey–Long Island, often referred to as the Tri-State Region, the most populous metropolitan area in the United States and is also one of the most populous in the world

North America (the continent which includes Mexico and ranging from Panama to the northern-most parts of Canada)

the Northern Hemisphere, the half of the world's surface lying north of the equator

The Tri-State Region, commonly used in the area surrounding New York City to refer to the greater metropolitan area, including satellite cities

the world (the geographical area corresponding to the entire surface area of planet earth)

Bedford-Stuyvesant (also shortly as Bed-Stuy), the neighborhood in the central portion of the New York City borough of Brooklyn

The United States of America (commonly called the United States, the U.S., the USA, America, and the States), the federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district

The Americas, or America, (,, ), lands in the Western hemisphere, also known as the New World

New York, the state in the Northeastern region of the United States

the region of North America that uses EST and EDT as their local time

the US dollar zone, the area of the world using the US dollar as their local currency

the G8 (the group of eight industrialised nations)

the continental United States: the portion of the US, including Alaska, that lie within the North American continent (excludes Hawaii)

the contiguous United States, i.e. the 48 joined states and Washington DC or the United States excluding Hawaii and Alaska

the area using the NANP, the group of countries whose telephone numbers are determined by the North American Numbering Plan and all have national codes beginning with +1

the continental US and Canada (excluding Hawaii, Mexico, and other countries in the North American continent)

Kings County, New York, in the USA