Greater Orlando
Greater Orlando is a region of Inland Florida surrounding the city of Orlando. It's famous for amusement parks such as Disney World and Universal Studios, though it's not far from Cape Canaveral in the Space Coast to the east, and therefore attracts tourists from within the United States as well as other countries.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Orlando and Walt Disney World.
Orlando
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Orlando 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 Walt Disney World and Universal Orlando, but it holds a lot to offer besides those two amusement meccas.
Walt Disney World
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At Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista 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.
Magic Kingdom
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At the Magic Kingdom, you can pillage the Caribbean with Jack Sparrow, spin through a tea party with the Mad Hatter, protect the galaxy with Buzz Lightyear, and visit the six themed lands of the world's most popular theme park.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Universal Orlando and Kissimmee.
Universal Orlando
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Universal Orlando Resort is a theme park resort in Orlando, Florida, composed of three theme parks, an entertainment district with nightlife and restaurants, a waterpark, and several hotels.
Kissimmee
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Kissimmee is a city in Osceola County. Kissimmee is a popular Central Florida tourist destination because of its sunny weather, spring training baseball for major league clubs, and close proximity to Disney World.
Altamonte Springs
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Altamonte Springs is a suburban city in Central Florida in Seminole County, Florida, United States, which had a population of 46,231 at the 2020 United States census.
Sanford
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Sanford is a city of 61,000 people in Seminole County on the northern side of Greater Orlando, known as the "Historic Waterfront Gateway City". Sanford is home to Seminole State College of Florida and the Central Florida Zoo and Botanical Gardens.
Winter Park
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Winter Park is a city of 31,000 people in Florida near Orlando. Winter Park is often seen as a popular tourist destination for those visiting Orlando that want an escape from the typical tourist scene of the Orlando theme parks.
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Winter Garden
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Winter Garden is a small town in Orange County, Florida, located just west of Orlando. It is a quickly expanding community that is becoming a hub for shopping and is also home to the West Orange Trail.
Orlando International Airport
Apopka
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Apopka is a city in Orange County, Florida. Apopka is referred to as the "Indoor Foliage Capital of the World" due to the many greenhouse nurseries there. It is home to about 55,000 people…
Maitland
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Maitland is a city in Orange County, Florida and a suburb of Orlando. It is one of the most prosperous cities of Greater Orlando, and its downtown is more urbanized than those of surrounding neighborhoods.
Lake Mary
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Lake Mary is a city in Seminole County, Florida. It is a part of the Greater Orlando metropolitan area.
Lake Buena Vista
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Lake Buena Vista is a municipality in Orange County, in Greater Orlando. It is home to Disney Springs, Typhoon Lagoon, the headquarters of the Amateur Athletic Union, Reedy Creek Improvement District, and most notably the headquarters of the Walt Disney World Resort.
Casselberry
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Casselberry is a city in Seminole County, Florida, United States. The city is part of the Orlando–Kissimmee–Sanford Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its population was 28,794 at the 2020 census.
St. Cloud
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St. Cloud or Saint Cloud is a city in northern Osceola County, Florida, United States. It is on the southern shore of East Lake Tohopekaliga in Central Florida, about 26 miles southeast of Orlando.
Celebration
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Celebration is a community in Osceola County, Florida, near Walt Disney World, designed by the Walt Disney Company to be a "perfect community". Though it was founded in 1994, the town feels a bit like something out of a TV show from the mid–20th century, with well-kept suburban houses and retro futurist architecture.
Eatonville
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Eatonville is a town in Orange County, Florida, United States, six miles north of Orlando. It is part of Greater Orlando. Incorporated on August 15, 1887, it was one of the first self-governing all-black municipalities in the United States.
Christmas
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Christmas is a small town in Orange County, central Florida. It is located just off State Road 50, 20 miles east of Orlando en route to Kennedy Space Center, Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, and Canaveral National Seashore in Titusville.
Greater Orlando
- Type: metropolitan statistical area with 2,670,000 residents
- Description: metropolitan area surrounding Orlando, Florida, United States
- Also known as: “Orlando metropolitan area”, “Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL Metro Area”, and “Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL Metropolitan Statistical Area”
- Location: Inland Florida, Florida, United States, North America
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Latitude of center
28.51° or 28° 30′ 36″ northLongitude of center
-81.32° or 81° 19′ 12″ westPopulation
2,670,000Wikidata ID
Q1968039
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Urdu—“Greater Orlando” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Gran Orlando”
- Chinese: “大奥兰多”
- Chinese: “大奧蘭多”
- Dutch: “Greater Orlando”
- French: “Greater Orlando”
- German: “Greater Orlando”
- Hebrew: “אורלנדו רבתי”
- Hebrew: “האזור המטרופוליני של אורלנדו”
- Italian: “Area metropolitana di Orlando”
- Japanese: “オーランド・キシミー・サンフォード大都市圏”
- Japanese: “グレーター・オーランド”
- Lithuanian: “Orlando Metropolitan Area (Fla.)”
- Lithuanian: “Orlando metropolitan area”
- Lithuanian: “Orlando miesto zona”
- Persian: “اورلاندو بزرگ”
- Portuguese: “Grande Orlando”
- Russian: “Большой Орландо”
- Russian: “Орландо”
- Slovenian: “Greater Orlando”
- Slovenian: “Vekiki Orlando”
- South Azerbaijani: “اورلاندو بزرق”
- Spanish: “Area metropolitana de Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford”
- Spanish: “Área metropolitana de Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford”
- Spanish: “Gran Orlando”
- Urdu: “گریٹر اورلینڈو”
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