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Florida is the southernmost state in the continental United States of America. Known as "The Sunshine State", over a century ago it became a popular winter destination for the well-to-do from colder climates; it has grown to become the second-most visited state in the nation.
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is a major city in the southeastern and the second most populous city in Florida. The metropolitan area is the largest in the state with an estimated population just under 6.1 million, which makes it the 9th most populous metro area in the United States.

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deserves its reputation as the theme park capital of the world, with an estimated 52 million visitors a year. The city is best known for its theme parks and , but it holds a lot to offer besides those two amusement meccas.

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At Resort in and Bay Lake, Florida, you can explore human innovation and cooperation; enjoy rides both thrilling and enchanting; relax and recuperate on the beach or the golf course; and discover an entire resort where children and adults can have fun—together.

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consists of the counties of peninsular Florida away from the coast, stretching from the Lake Okeechobee region in the south to the border with in the north.

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, also known as the Florida Gold Coast, is a region along the Atlantic coast of Florida in the United States of America. It consists of Palm Beach, Broward, and Miami-Dade counties.

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The West Coast is one of the most popular tourist regions of Florida. It comprises the greater part of the Florida Gulf Coast, Florida's shoreline on the Gulf of Mexico which extends from the to the border.

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The is a region of Florida, in the northwest of the state. It has long been popular for its beaches along the Gulf of Mexico. It includes the inland city of Tallahassee – the state capital and home of Florida State and Florida A&M Universities, and Pensacola, a city close to the border with Alabama.

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The is a region in Florida. Also known as "Northeast Florida", it is the portion of the state north of the Daytona Beach area along the Atlantic coast, including the entire area.

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, Florida is bordered on the west by the historic St. Johns River, and by the Atlantic Ocean to the east, and therefore is found within a fairly compact area.

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Brevard County is on the east coast of Florida. Because of the presence of spaceports like Cape Canaveral and Kennedy Space Center, where the manned missions to the moon and the Space Shuttles are based, Brevard County is also known as the .

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The is a 3-county region on the east coast of Florida. It has beautiful beaches and many opportunities to see nature and have fun.

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The are a region of Florida. Geographically, the Keys are an archipelago of about 1,700 islands extending south and southwest of the Florida mainland.

Florida

Latitude of center
27.7568° or 27° 45′ 24″ north
Longitude of center
-81.464° or 81° 27′ 50″ west
Population
23,400,000
Elevation
85 feet (26 metres)
Abbreviation
“Fla.”
Abbreviation
“FL”
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2281482629
Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
4155751
Wiki­data ID
Q812
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Florida” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Florida”
  • Afrikaans: “Staat Florida”
  • Albanian: “Florida”
  • Amharic: “ፍሎሪዳ”
  • Arabic: “فلوريدا”
  • Arabic: “ولاية فلوريدا”
  • Aragonese: “Florida”
  • Armenian: “Ֆլորիդա”
  • Arpitan: “Fllorida”
  • Arpitan: “Florida”
  • Asturian: “Florida”
  • Aymara: “Florida suyu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Florida”
  • Balinese: “Florida”
  • Bashkir: “Флорида”
  • Basque: “Florida”
  • Bavarian: “Florida”
  • Bavarian: “Stoot Florida”
  • Belarusian: “Фларыда”
  • Belarusian: “Флорыда”
  • Bengali: “ফ্লোরিডা”
  • Betawi: “Plorida”
  • Bhojpuri: “फ्लोरिडा”
  • Bishnupriya: “ফ্লোরিডা”
  • Bislama: “Florida”
  • Bosnian: “Florida”
  • Breton: “Florida”
  • Bulgarian: “Флорида”
  • Burmese: “ဖလော်ရီဒါပြည်နယ်”
  • Catalan: “Florida”
  • Cebuano: “Florida”
  • Central Bikol: “Florida”
  • Central Kanuri: “Florida”
  • Central Kurdish: “فلۆریدا”
  • Chavacano: “Florida”
  • Chechen: “Флорида”
  • Cherokee: “ᎠᏟᏲᎷᎲᏍᎩᎢ”
  • Chinese: “Florida”
  • Chinese: “佛罗里达州”
  • Chinese: “佛羅里達州”
  • Chinese: “弗罗里达”
  • Chinese: “弗羅里達”
  • Chuvash: “Флорида”
  • Cornish: “Florida”
  • Corsican: “Florida”
  • Corsican: “Statu di a Florida”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Florida”
  • Croatian: “Florida”
  • Czech: “Florida”
  • Czech: “State of Florida”
  • Dagbani: “Florida”
  • Danish: “Florida”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Florida”
  • Dutch: “FL”
  • Dutch: “Florida”
  • Eastern Mari: “Флорида”
  • Eastern Mari: “Флориде”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “فلوريدا”
  • Esperanto: “FL”
  • Esperanto: “Florido”
  • Estonian: “Florida”
  • Ewe: “Florida”
  • Faroese: “Florida”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Florida”
  • Fijian: “Florida”
  • Finnish: “Florida”
  • French: “État de Floride”
  • French: “FL”
  • French: “Floride”
  • Fulah: “Florida”
  • Gagauz: “Florida”
  • Galician: “Estado de Florida”
  • Galician: “Florida, Estados Unidos de América”
  • Galician: “Florida”
  • Georgian: “ფლორიდა”
  • German: “FL”
  • German: “Florida”
  • German: “Sonnenschein-Staat”
  • German: “Sunshine State”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Florida”
  • Gothic: “𐍆𐌻𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌹𐌳𐌰”
  • Greek: “Φλόριδα”
  • Greek: “Φλόριντα”
  • Guarani: “Florida”
  • Gujarati: “ફ્લોરિડા”
  • Haitian: “Florid”
  • Hakha Chin: “Florida”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Florida”
  • Hausa: “Florida”
  • Hawaiian: “Pololika”
  • Hebrew: “פלורידה”
  • Hindi: “फ़्लोरिडा”
  • Hungarian: “Florida”
  • Icelandic: “Florida”
  • Icelandic: “Flórída”
  • Ido: “Florida”
  • Igbo: “Flórídạ”
  • Iloko: “Florida”
  • Inari Sami: “Florida”
  • Indonesian: “Florida”
  • Interlingua: “Florida”
  • Interlingue: “Florida”
  • Inuktitut: “ᑉᓘᕇᑖ”
  • Inupiaq: “Florida”
  • Inupiaq: “Palauritaq”
  • Irish: “Florida”
  • Italian: “Florida”
  • Italian: “Stato della Florida”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Flarida”
  • Japanese: “フロリダ州”
  • Javanese: “Florida”
  • Kabiyè: “Floriidii”
  • Kalmyk: “Плоорид”
  • Kannada: “ಫ್ಲಾರಿಡ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Florida”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Флорида”
  • Kazakh: “Флорида”
  • Kirghiz: “Флорида”
  • Komering: “Florida”
  • Korean: “플로리다 주”
  • Korean: “플로리다”
  • Korean: “플로리다주”
  • Kurdish: “Florida”
  • Kurdish: “Florîda”
  • Ladin: “Florida”
  • Ladino: “Florida”
  • Lao: “ຟລໍຣິດາ”
  • Latin: “Florida”
  • Latvian: “Florida”
  • Lezghian: “Флорида”
  • Ligurian: “Florida”
  • Limburgan: “Florida”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Florida”
  • Literary Chinese: “佛羅里達州”
  • Lithuanian: “Florida”
  • Lombard: “Florida”
  • Low German: “Florida”
  • Luxembourgish: “Florida”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Florida”
  • Macedonian: “Флорида”
  • Maithili: “फ्लोरिडा”
  • Malagasy: “Florida”
  • Malay: “Florida”
  • Malay: “فلوريدا”
  • Malayalam: “ഫ്ലോറിഡ”
  • Manipuri: “ꯐ꯭ꯂꯣꯔꯤꯗꯥ”
  • Manx: “Florida”
  • Maori: “Florida”
  • Maori: “Whoreta”
  • Marathi: “फ्लोरिडा”
  • Mazanderani: “فلوریدا”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Florida”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Hŭk-lò̤-lī-dăk”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Florida”
  • Minangkabau: “Florida”
  • Mingrelian: “ფლორიდა”
  • Mongolian: “Флорида”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “فلوريدا”
  • Nauru: “Florida”
  • Navajo: “Gah Bikeeʼ Taah Yíʼáhí”
  • Nepali: “फ्लोरिडा”
  • Newari: “फ्लोरिडा”
  • Newari: “फ्लोरिदा”
  • Northern Frisian: “Florida”
  • Northern Luri: “فلوریدا”
  • Northern Sami: “Florida”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “FL”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Fla.”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Florida”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Florida”
  • Norwegian: “Florida”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Florida”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܦܠܘܪܝܕܐ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Blostmaland”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Florida”
  • Oriya: “ଫ୍ଲୋରିଡା”
  • Oriya: “ଫ୍ଲୋରିଡ଼ା”
  • Ossetian: “Флоридæ”
  • Pali: “फ्लोरिडा”
  • Pampanga: “Florida”
  • Panjabi: “ਫ਼ਲੌਰਿਡਾ”
  • Papiamento: “Florida”
  • Persian: “فلوریدا”
  • Picard: “Floride”
  • Piemontese: “Florida”
  • Polish: “Floryda”
  • Portuguese: “Estado da Flórida”
  • Portuguese: “FL”
  • Portuguese: “Florida”
  • Portuguese: “Flórida”
  • Pushto: “فلوريډا”
  • Pushto: “فلوریډا”
  • Quechua: “Florida suyu”
  • Romanian: “Florida”
  • Romansh: “Florida”
  • Russia Buriat: “Флорида”
  • Russian: “Флорида”
  • Rusyn: “Флоріда”
  • Samogitian: “Florida”
  • Sanskrit: “फ्‍लोरिडा”
  • Sanskrit: “फ्लोरिडा”
  • Santali: “ᱯᱷᱞᱳᱨᱤᱰᱟ”
  • Sardinian: “Flòrida”
  • Sardinian: “Istadu de sa Flòrida”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Florida”
  • Scots: “FL”
  • Scots: “Florida”
  • Scots: “State o Florida”
  • Scots: “US-FL”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “FL”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Florida”
  • Serbian: “Флорида”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Florida”
  • Shona: “Florida”
  • Sicilian: “Florida”
  • Silesian: “Florida”
  • Sindhi: “فلوريڊا”
  • Sinhala: “ෆ‍්ලොරිඩ”
  • Sinhala: “ෆ්ලොරිඩා”
  • Sinhala: “ෆ්ලොරිඩාව”
  • Skolt Sami: “Florida”
  • Slovak: “Florida”
  • Slovenian: “Florida”
  • Somali: “Florida”
  • South Azerbaijani: “فلوریدا ایالتی”
  • South Azerbaijani: “فلوریدا”
  • Spanish: “El Estado del Sol”
  • Spanish: “Estado de Florida”
  • Spanish: “Estado de la Península”
  • Spanish: “FL”
  • Spanish: “Fla.”
  • Spanish: “Florida (Estados Unidos)”
  • Spanish: “Florida”
  • Swahili: “Florida”
  • Swedish: “Florida”
  • Swiss German: “Florida”
  • Tagalog: “Florida”
  • Tajik: “Флорида”
  • Talysh: “Florida”
  • Tamil: “புளோரிடா”
  • Tatar: “Флорида”
  • Telugu: “ఫ్లోరిడా”
  • Thai: “รัฐฟลอริดา”
  • Tibetan: “ཧྥོ་ལོ་རི་ཌ།”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Florida”
  • Tumbuka: “Florida”
  • Turkish: “FL”
  • Turkish: “Fla.”
  • Turkish: “Florida eyaleti”
  • Turkish: “Florida, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri”
  • Turkish: “Florida”
  • Turkish: “State of Florida”
  • Turkish: “US-FL”
  • Uighur: “Florida Shitati”
  • Ukrainian: “Флорида”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Florida”
  • Urdu: “فلوریڈا”
  • Uzbek: “Florida”
  • Venetian: “Florida”
  • Venetian: “Flòrida”
  • Vietnamese: “bang Florida”
  • Vietnamese: “Florida, Hoa Kỳ”
  • Vietnamese: “Florida, Mỹ”
  • Vietnamese: “Florida”
  • Vlaams: “Florida”
  • Vlax Romani: “Florida”
  • Volapük: “Florida”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Florida”
  • Welsh: “Fflorida”
  • Welsh: “Florida”
  • Western Armenian: “Ֆլորիտա”
  • Western Frisian: “Floarida”
  • Western Frisian: “Florida”
  • Western Mari: “Флорида”
  • Western Panjabi: “فلوریڈا”
  • Wu Chinese: “佛罗里达州”
  • Xhosa: “IFlorida”
  • Yakut: “Флорида”
  • Yiddish: “פלארידע”
  • Yoruba: “Florida”
  • Yue Chinese: “科利打省”
  • Zeeuws: “Florida”
  • Zhuang: “Florida”
  • Zulu: “Florida”
  • “FL”
  • “Florida”
  • “Flòrida”
  • “Fluorėda”
  • “ma Lowita”
  • “US-FL”
  • “फ्लोरिडा”

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