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Map of the United States with Florida highlighted Map of Florida's municipalities. 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]
The Gulf Coast climate is humid subtropical, although Southwest Florida features a tropical climate. Much of the year is warm to hot along the Gulf Coast, while the three winter months bring periods of cool (or rarely, cold) weather mixed with mild temperatures. The area is highly vulnerable to hurricanes as well as floods and severe thunderstorms.
Gulf City: 1 Hillsborough: 33570 Gulf Cove: 1 Charlotte: 33953 Gulf Gate: 1 Sarasota Gulf Gate East: 1 Sarasota: 33583 Gulf Gate Estates: 1 Sarasota: 33581 Gulf Hammock: 1 Levy: 32639 Gulf Harbors: 1 Pasco: 34652 Gulf Islands National Seashore: 3 Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa: 32561 Gulf Lagoon Beach: 1 Bay: 32401 Gulf Pine: 1 Pasco Gulf Pines ...
Gulf County, created in 1925, was named for the Gulf of Mexico. Wewahitchka was its first county seat and the 1927 Gulf County Courthouse is still in existence. In 1965 the county seat was moved to Port Saint Joe, which under its original name Saint Joseph, had been the site of Florida's first Constitutional Convention in 1838.
Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU) is a public university located just south of the Southwest Florida International Airport in South Fort Myers in Lee County, Florida. The university belongs to the 12-campus State University System of Florida. FGCU competes in the ASUN Conference in NCAA Division I sports.
Pine Island is the largest island on the Gulf Coast of peninsular Florida in the United States. Located in Lee County, on the Gulf of Mexico coast of southwest Florida, it is also the 118th largest island in the United States. The Intracoastal Waterway passes through Pine Island Sound, to the west of the island.
The approximate coordinates for the Town of Gulf Stream is located at (26.490317, –80.061110 [ 6 ] According to the United States Census Bureau , the town has a total area of 0.9 square miles (2.3 km 2 ), of which 0.8 square miles (2.1 km 2 ) is land and 0.1 square miles (0.26 km 2 ) (9.64%) is water.
The Florida Suncoast (or Florida Sun Coast) is a local marketing name for the west-central peninsular Florida coastal area, also sometimes known as Florida's Beach communities. The region contains nearly 150 miles (240 km) of Gulf of Mexico beaches and the warm, sunny winter climate attracts tourists from across the US, Canada, and Europe.