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Tallahassee (/ ˌtæləˈhæsi / TAL-ə-HASS-ee) is the capital city of the U.S. state of Florida. It is the county seat and only incorporated municipality in Leon County. Tallahassee became the capital of Florida, then the Florida Territory, in 1824. In 2022, the estimated population was 201,731, [5] making it the eighth-most populous city in ...
Population figures are based on the 2023 vintage Census population estimates. The population of Florida is 22,610,726, an increase of 5.0% from 2020. The average population of Florida's counties is 337,474; Miami-Dade County is the most populous (2,686,867) and Liberty County is the least (7,706). The average land area is 805 sq mi (2,085 km 2).
Leon County, Florida. Leon County (Spanish: Condado de León) is a county in the Panhandle of the U.S. state of Florida. It was named after the Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León. As of the 2020 census, the population was 292,198. [1][2] The county seat is Tallahassee, [3] which is also the state capital and home to many politicians ...
In 1824, the City of Tallahassee, the county seat and only incorporated city in Leon County, was established following a decision by the state legislature to locate the capital of the new Florida Territory midway between the population centers of St. Augustine and Pensacola. The city was not formally incorporated until December 1825, with the ...
The counties of the Tallahassee Metropolitan Area cover an area of around 2,604 sq mi (6,750 km 2), of which around 2,390 sq mi (6,1890 km 2) is land. Much of that water area is in Wakulla and Jefferson counties along the coastline of Apalachee Bay. Only 141.33 sq mi (366.04 km 2), or 5.92%, of the area is urbanized, with nearly 80% of said ...
List of municipalities in Florida. Florida is a state located in the Southern United States. There are 267 cities, 123 towns, and 21 villages in the U.S. state of Florida, a total of 411 municipalities. [ 1 ] They are distributed across 67 counties, in addition to 66 county governments. [ 2 ] Jacksonville has the only consolidated city–county ...
Meanwhile, counties and cities across the state opened sandbag locations and prepared shelters. In Tallahassee, Florida State and Florida A&M universities announced closures through Friday.
Lake Butler was the county seat of Bradford County, Florida from 1860 until a referendum changed the county seat to Starke, Florida on August 17, 1887. Lake Butler later became the county seat of Union County, Florida when it was established in 1921. Pine Level was the county seat of Manatee County from 1866 to 1887.