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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]
Panama City-Lynn Haven, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area: Panama City: 24: The Villages - Lady Lake: 161,736: Orlando-Kissimmee, Florida, Metropolitan Statistical Area, Ocala, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area and Sumter County: Lady Lake - The Villages and Lady Lake: 25: Leesburg-Eustis-Tavares: 151,523: Orlando-Kissimmee, Florida ...
Map of the United States with Florida highlighted. The United States Census Bureau defines certain unincorporated communities (lacking elected municipal officers and boundaries with legal status) [1] as census-designated places (CDPs) for enumeration in each decennial census. The Census Bureau defined 485 Florida CDPs for the 2000 census [2 ...
The Consortium is one of three educational consortia in the state, created by state legislature to provide support to small and rural school districts. South Florida State College, the largest post-secondary institution based within Florida's Heartland, is located in Avon Park and has campuses in Lake Placid, Bowling Green and Arcadia.
The Florida panhandle (also known as West Florida and Northwest Florida) is the northwestern part of the U.S. state of Florida. It is a salient roughly 200 miles (320 km) long, bordered by Alabama on the north and the west, Georgia on the north, and the Gulf of Mexico to the south. Its eastern boundary is arbitrarily defined.
The Villages is a census-designated place (CDP) in Sumter and Marion counties in the U.S. state of Florida.It shares its name with a broader master-planned, age-restricted community that spreads into portions of Lake County.
Florida is the most hurricane-prone state, with subtropical or tropical water on a lengthy coastline. Of the category 4 or higher storms that have struck the United States, 83% have either hit Florida or Texas. [99] From 1851 to 2006, Florida was struck by 114 hurricanes, 37 of them major—category 3 and above. [99]
Rural areas in the United States, often referred to as rural America, [1] consists of approximately 97% of the United States' land area. An estimated 60 million people, or one in five residents (17.9% of the total U.S. population), live in rural America. Definitions vary from different parts of the United States government as to what ...