! Florida (/'fl?r?d?/ (About this soundlisten)) is the southernmost contiguous state in the United States the state is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico to the northwest by Alabama to the north by Georgia to the east by the Atlantic Ocean and to the south by the Straits of Florida Florida is the 22nd-most extensive (65,755 sq mi or 170,300 km2) the 3rd-most populous (21,312,211 inhabitants) and the 8th-most densely populated (384.3/sq mi or 148.4/km2) of the U.S states Jacksonville is the most populous municipality in the state and the largest city by area in the contiguous United States the Miami metropolitan area is Florida's most populous urban area Tallahassee is the state's capital, (41) 2.03 2.2 Choice of entry mode in international business, 1984 34.7% 1,448,816 65.3% 2,730,350 4 Transportation.
2010 2,496,435 10.8% ?SF ?F? F?S ??? Initial attempts at developing agriculture near Lake Okeechobee were successful but the nutrients in the peat were rapidly removed In a process called soil subsidence oxidation of peat causes loss of volume Bacteria decompose dead sawgrass slowly underwater without oxygen When the water was drained in the 1920s and bacteria interacted with oxygen an aerobic reaction occurred Microorganisms degraded the peat into carbon dioxide and water Some of the peat was burned by settlers to clear the land Some homes built in the areas of early farms had to have their foundations moved to stilts as the peat deteriorated; other areas lost approximately 8 feet (2.4 m) of soil depth, 10 External links The term the Pond is often used by British and American speakers in context to the Atlantic Ocean as a form of meiosis or sarcastic understatement the term dates to as early as 1640 first appearing in print in pamphlet released during the reign of Charles I and reproduced in 1869 in Nehemiah Wallington's Historical Notices of Events Occurring Chiefly in the Reign of Charles I where "great Pond" is used in reference to the Atlantic Ocean by Francis Windebank Charles I's Secretary of State, Exploration Rock 3.4 Languages Pineland. In 1960 non-Hispanic whites represented 80% of Miami-Dade county's population in 1970 the Census Bureau reported Miami's population as 45.3% Hispanic 32.9% non-Hispanic White and 22.7% Black Miami's explosive population growth has been driven by internal migration from other parts of the country primarily up until the 1980s as well as by immigration primarily from the 1960s to the 1990s Today immigration to Miami has continued and Miami's growth today is attributed greatly to its fast urbanization and high-rise construction which has increased its inner city neighborhood population densities such as in Downtown Brickell and Edgewater where one area in Downtown alone saw a 2,069% increase in population in the 2010 Census Miami is regarded as more of a multicultural mosaic than it is a melting pot with residents still maintaining much of or some of their cultural traits the overall culture of Miami is heavily influenced by its large population of Hispanics from the Caribbean and South America and blacks mainly from the Caribbean islands. At least three airplanes have crashed in the Everglades including: Northwest Airlines Flight 705 (in 1963) Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 (1972) and ValuJet Flight 592 (1996), Sargassum fish (Histrio histrio) A Miami Herald headline dated August 7 1945 featuring the atomic bombing of Hiroshima Japan. 3.1.1 Concourse D Florida is the leading state for sales of powerboats Boats sales totaled $1.96 billion in 2013 Main article: List of communities in Miami-Dade County Florida. In 2014 the City of South Miami passed a resolution in favor of splitting the state in half with a northern boundary drawn to include the counties of Brevard Orange Polk Hillsborough and Pinellas (roughly the Tampa Bay and Orlando areas) in total the proposed State of South Florida would have included 24 counties. .
Garcia Lorenzo & Associates