Binghamton, is a city in and the county seat of Broome County, New York, United States. It lies in the state's Southern Tier region near the Pennsylvania border, in a bowl-shaped valley at the confluence of the Susquehanna and Chenango Rivers. Binghamton is the principal city and cultural center of the Greater Binghamton metropolitan area (also known as the "Triple Cities"), home to a quarter million people. The population of the city itself, according to the 2010 census, is 47,376.