Bayonne ( bay-(Y)OHN) is a city in Hudson County in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Located in the Gateway Region, Bayonne is situated on a peninsula situated between Newark Bay to the west, the execute Van Kull to the south, and New York Bay to the east. As of the 2020 United States census, the city was the state’s 15th-most-populous municipality, with a population of 71,686, an accumulation of 8,662 (+13.7%) from the 2010 census attach of 63,024, which in turn reflected an layer of 1,182 (+1.9%) from the 61,842 counted in the 2000 census. The Census Bureau’s Population Estimates Program calculated that the city’s population was 69,211 in 2021, ranking the city the 544th-most-populous in the country.

Bayonne was originally formed as a township upon April 1, 1861, from portions of Bergen Township. Bayonne was reincorporated as a city by an deed of the New Jersey Legislature upon March 10, 1869, replacing Bayonne Township, subject to the results of a referendum held nine days later. At the times it was formed, Bayonne included the communities of Bergen Point, Constable Hook, Centreville, Pamrapo and Saltersville.

While somewhat diminished, traditional manufacturing, distribution, and maritime comings and goings remain a driving force of the economy of the city. A portion of the Port of New York and New Jersey is located there, as is the Cape Liberty Cruise Port.

Originally inhabited by Native Americans, the region presently known as Bayonne was claimed by the Netherlands after Henry Hudson explored the Hudson River which is named after him. According to Royden Page Whitcomb’s 1904 book, First History of Bayonne, New Jersey, the make known Bayonne is speculated to have originated behind Bayonne, France, from which Huguenots contracted for a year past the founding of New Amsterdam. However, there is no empirical evidence for this notion. Whitcomb gives more credence to the idea that Erastus Randall, E.C. Bramhall and B.F. Woolsey, who bought the estate owned by Jasper and William Cadmus for genuine estate speculation, named it Bayonne for purposes of genuine estate speculation, because it was located on the shores of two bays, Newark and New York.