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The Florida Portal The Sunshine State Florida State State of Florida Flag Seal Map of the United States with Florida highlighted Florida (/ˈflɒrɪdə/ FLORR-ih-də) is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States. It borders the Gulf of Mexico to the west, Alabama to the northwest, Georgia to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Straits of Florida and Cuba to the south. About two-thirds of Florida occupies a peninsula between the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean. It has the longest coastline in the contiguous United States, spanning approximately 1,350 miles (2,170 km), not including its many barrier islands. It is the only state that borders both the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of over 21 million, it is the third-most populous state in the United States and ranks eighth in population density as of 2020. Florida spans 65,758 square miles (170,310 km2), ranking 22nd in area among the states. The Miami metropolitan area, anchored by the cities of Miami, Fort Lauderdale, and West Palm Beach, is the state's largest metropolitan area, with a population of 6.138 million; the most populous city is Jacksonville. Florida's other major population centers include Tampa Bay, Orlando, Cape Coral, and the state capital of Tallahassee. Various American Indian tribes have inhabited Florida for at least 14,000 years. In 1513, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León became the first known European to make landfall, calling the region La Florida (land of flowers) ([la floˈɾiða]). Florida subsequently became the first area in the continental U.S. to be permanently settled by Europeans, with the settlement of St. Augustine, founded in 1565, being the oldest continuously inhabited city. Florida was a Spanish territory frequently attacked and coveted by Great Britain before Spain ceded it to the U.S. in 1819 in exchange for resolving the border dispute along the Sabine River in Spanish Texas. Florida was admitted as the 27th state on March 3, 1845, and was the principal location of the Seminole Wars (1816–1858), the longest and most extensive of the American Indian Wars. The state seceded from the Union on January 10, 1861, becoming one of the seven original Confederate States, and was readmitted to the Union after the Civil War on June 25, 1868. Since the mid-20th century, Florida has experienced rapid demographic and economic growth. Its economy, with a gross state product (GSP) of $1.647 trillion, is the fourth largest of any U.S. state and the 15th-largest in the world; the main sectors are tourism, hospitality, agriculture, real estate, and transportation. Florida is world-renowned for its beach resorts, amusement parks, warm and sunny climate, and nautical recreation; attractions such as Walt Disney World, the Kennedy Space Center, and Miami Beach draw tens of millions of visitors annually. Florida is a popular destination for retirees, seasonal vacationers, and both domestic and international migrants; it hosts nine out of the ten fastest-growing communities in the U.S. The state's close proximity to the ocean has shaped its culture, identity, and daily life; its colonial history and successive waves of migration are reflected in African, European, Indigenous, Latino, and Asian influences. Florida has attracted or inspired some of the most prominent American writers, including Ernest Hemingway, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, and Tennessee Williams, and continues to attract celebrities and athletes, especially in golf, tennis, auto racing, and water sports. Florida has been considered a battleground state in American presidential elections, particularly those in 2000 and 2016. (Full article...) Selected article - Georges near peak intensity east of the Leeward Islands on September 19 Hurricane Georges (/ʒɔːrʒ/) was a powerful and long-lived tropical cyclone which caused severe destruction as it traversed the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico in September 1998, making seven landfalls along its path. Georges was the seventh tropical storm, fourth hurricane, and second major hurricane of the 1998 Atlantic hurricane season. It became the most destructive storm of the season, the costliest Atlantic hurricane since Hurricane Andrew in 1992 and remained the costliest until Hurricane Charley in 2004, and the deadliest since Hurricane Gordon in 1994. Georges killed 615 people, mainly on the island of Hispaniola, caused extensive damage resulting in just under $10 billion (US dollars in 1998) in damages and leaving nearly 500,000 people homeless in St. Kitts and Nevis, Puerto Rico, Hispaniola and Cuba. The hurricane made landfall in at least six countries (Antigua and Barbuda, St. Kitts and Nevis, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, and the United States), more than any other hurricane since Hurricane Inez of the 1966 season. Throughout its path of destruction, it caused extreme flooding and mudslides, as well as heavy crop damage. Thousands were left homeless as a result of the storm in the Lesser Antilles, and damage in those islands totaled about US$880 million. In the Greater Antilles, hundreds of deaths were confirmed, along with over $2.4 billion in damages. Hundreds of thousands were left homeless, due to catastrophic flooding, torrential rainfall, and high storm surge. Flooding was exacerbated heavily by coastal defenses being broken from high waves. Crops were heavily damaged, and thousands of houses were destroyed due to mudslides. (Full article...) List of selected articles Miami River (Florida) Walt Disney World Resort Tri-state water dispute Florida International University Publix Key Biscayne Boca Raton, Florida 1928 Okeechobee hurricane Miami Terrace Reef Everglades National Park Jacksonville, Florida Hooters Miami metropolitan area Limp Bizkit Dixie Highway Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39 Clearwater, Florida Miami International Airport Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge Brothers to the Rescue Hurricane Dennis Hurricane Wilma Hurricane Irma Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Miami Hurricane Charley Intracoastal Waterway 1925 Florida tropical storm Grooveshark Gemini Springs Park Florida Atlantic University Hurricane Andrew Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater Restaurant 2012 Budweiser Shootout Rosewood massacre Walt Disney World Railroad Draining and development of the Everglades Biscayne National Park Indigenous people of the Everglades region St. Johns River Geography and ecology of the Everglades List of governors of Florida Snow in Florida List of mammals of Florida List of counties in Florida List of Florida hurricanes List of invasive species in the Everglades List of birds of Florida Climate of Florida Randall Made Knives Manta (SeaWorld Orlando) Riverside and Avondale Apalachee massacre Siege of St. Augustine (1702) Slammiversary (2005) Super Bowl XLI Siege of Pensacola (1707) San Marco (Jacksonville) Caroline Street (Key West) COVID-19 pandemic in Florida Restoration of the Everglades 2000 United States presidential election recount in Florida Orlando nightclub shooting AdventHealth Did you know... ... that Three Notch Road, covering 233 miles (375 km) between Pensacola, Florida, and Fort Mitchell, Alabama, cost $1,130 to build? ... that the legal battle over awarding channel 9 in Orlando, Florida, the longest case in FCC history at the time, filled 55 volumes? ... that Florida State's exclusion from the 2023–24 College Football Playoff prompted an antitrust investigation? ... that the Florida beach festival Surfing Santas, held regularly on Christmas Eve, was inspired by a Honda commercial? ... that a man who fatally shot a Florida woman waving a gun at him from her front yard after a road-rage incident was not charged in connection with her death? ... that a jury awarded $225,000 to the prospective owners of Florida radio station WODX because of poor record-keeping and breaches of their lease agreement? Selected quote - General images - The following are images from various Florida-related articles on Wikipedia. The Florida scrub jay is found only in Florida (from Geography of Florida) Soldiers and crowds in Downtown Miami 20 minutes after Japan's surrender ending World War II (1945). (from History of Florida) Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World Resort (from History of Florida) A 1527 map by Vesconte Maggiolo showing the east coast of North America with "Tera Florida" at the top and "Lavoradore" at the bottom. (from History of Florida) The expanded West Florida territory in 1767. (from History of Florida) Sunniland Oil Fields (from Environment of Florida) Fall foliage in North Florida (from Geography of Florida) A 1591 map of Florida by Jacques le Moyne de Morgues. (from History of Florida) South Florida's climate is ideal for growing sugarcane. (from Geography of Florida) A shell midden at Enterprise, Florida in 1875. (from History of Florida) Andrew Jackson served as the first military Governor of Florida. (from History of Florida) Sunniland stratigraphic column (from Environment of Florida) Hurricane Andrew bearing down on Florida on August 23, 1992 (from Geography of Florida) Alligator in the Florida Everglades (from Geography of Florida) Royal Poinciana tree in full bloom in the Florida Keys, an indication of South Florida's tropical climate (from Geography of Florida) Tourists hunting in 1893 (from History of Florida) Five flags of Florida, not including the current State Flag. (from History of Florida) Typical summer afternoon shower from the Everglades traveling eastward over Downtown Miami (from Geography of Florida) Juan Ponce de León was one of the first Europeans to set foot in the current United States; he led the first European expedition to Florida, which he named. (from History of Florida) Bernard Picart Copper Plate Engraving of Florida Indians, circa 1721 (from History of Florida) The Battle of Olustee was the only major Civil War battle fought in Florida. (from History of Florida) Köppen climate classification map of Florida. (from Geography of Florida) A depiction of what might be Florida from the 1502 Cantino map (from History of Florida) Timucua Indians at a column erected by the French in 1562 (from History of Florida) A map of Florida, as seen from outer space. (from Geography of Florida) The brick Capitol as built in 1845. (from History of Florida) Kennedy Space Center. (from History of Florida) Snow is very uncommon in Florida, but has occurred in every major Florida city at least once; snow does fall very occasionally in North Florida (from Geography of Florida) "Butterfly ballot" (from History of Florida) Destruction in Lakes by the Bay near Miami following Hurricane Andrew (from History of Florida) Key deer in the lower Florida Keys (from Geography of Florida) Seminole leader Osceola. (from History of Florida) Platydemus manokwari in Florida (from Environment of Florida) Topographic map of Florida (from Geography of Florida) Related portals Selected biography - Nancy Helen Marcus (May 17, 1950 – February 12, 2018) was an American biologist and oceanographer. During her graduate studies, Marcus became known as an expert on copepod ecology and evolutionary biology. She began her career as a postdoctoral fellow at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution where she studied copepod dormancy and its implications for marine aquaculture. She continued her field research as a professor of oceanography and later as the director of the Florida State University Marine Laboratory (FSU). During this time, Marcus was elected as a Fellow of the Association for Women in Science and the American Association for the Advancement of Science and served as the president of the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography. As the president, she led efforts to increase education activities and increase the endowment fund. In 2005, Marcus transitioned from the sciences to college administration when she was appointed Dean of the FSU Graduate School. During her tenure, FSU nearly doubled the number of doctoral degrees awarded annually. She created several graduate academic programs and the FSU Office of Graduate Fellowships and Awards. Marcus served a term as chair of the Board of Directors for the Council of Graduate Schools to address the future of graduate education. Outside of academia, Marcus was a magician and ventriloquist. She served on the Goucher College Board of Trustees from 2009 to 2016 and was previously the chair of the academic affairs committee. Marcus died on February 12, 2018, after two years of treatment for uveal melanoma. (Full article...) List of selected biographies Marjory Stoneman Douglas Mary McLeod Bethune William Cooley Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Andrew Sledd John F. Bolt Gregor MacGregor William Cooley Dan Marino Daniel Webster (Florida politician) Zora Neale Hurston Bobby Bowden Guy Bradley Jack Youngblood Tom Petty Billy Mays Steve Spurrier Lawton Chiles Robert Cade Jeb Bush Ben Hill Griffin Jr. E. T. York Twiggy Ramirez Carl G. Fisher Marco Rubio Tyler Clippard Zack Greinke Tessa Ludwick Oliver Kuhn Ron DeSantis Andrew Gillum Charlie Crist Selected images - A Cuban sandwich is a variation of a ham and cheese sandwich that originated among the Cuban workers in the cigar factories in Key West, Florida Fort Brooke was a historical military post situated on the east bank (at the mouth) of the Hillsborough River in present-day Tampa, Florida Farles Prairie in Ocala National Forest A Great blue heron at Alafia River State Park Downtown Miami, viewed from Virginia Key The main street in Alachua downtown historic district Florida from space, taken by Shuttle Mission STS-95 on October 31, 1998 Fort Jefferson at the Dry Tortugas Fountains at Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park in Tampa, Florida Current events September 2, 2024 – United States–Venezuela relations The United States seizes a Dassault Falcon 900 jet used by Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro on accusations that the purchase of the jet violated U.S. sanctions against Venezuela, and flies the jet from the Dominican Republic to Florida. (Reuters) August 28, 2024 – The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration temporarily grounds all SpaceX Falcon 9 launches and orders an investigation following a booster rocket fire incident at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, United States. (AP) August 5, 2024 – 2024 Atlantic hurricane season At least six people are killed in Florida, United States, by severe weather caused by Hurricane Debby. (BBC News) July 15, 2024 – 2024 Copa América In association football, defending champions Argentina defeat Colombia 1–0 after extra time in the final match to win a record 16th Copa América title, with Lautaro Martínez scoring the winning goal in the 112th minute. Kick-off was delayed by 82 minutes due to fans breaching the security gates at Hard Rock Stadium, the match's venue, in Miami Gardens, Florida, United States. (AP) (The New York Times) WikiProjects WikiProjects puzzle Main project WikiProject Florida Sub-projects Jacksonville Manatee-Sarasota History Miami Navarre Tampa Bay Florida International University Florida State University State University System of Florida University of Central Florida University of Florida U.S. Roads/Florida Selected panorama - A view of the Halifax River in Daytona Beach 'The Halifax River is part of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway, located in northeast Volusia County, Florida. The waterway was originally known as the North Mosquito River, but was renamed after George Montagu-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, during the British occupation of Florida (1763-1784). Topics Quality content

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