Florida, United States

Florida, United States

Country USA
Capital city Tallahassee
Area 170,304 km²
Population 21,538,187 people (2020)
126 people/km²
Governor Ronald Desantis (R)
ISO 3166-2 US-FL
Official site myflorida.com
Florida

Florida (in English: Florida) is a state in the United States, whose zip code is FL, and whose capital is Tallahassee. Florida has a population of 20,984,400 (2017 est.). Florida has a total area of ​​170,305 km², of which 139,544 km² is land and 30,761 km² (18.1%) is water.

History

Until the discovery of Florida by Europeans, the peninsula was inhabited primarily by the Seminole Indian tribes.

In 1513, in search of “Bimini” – the land of eternal youth according to medieval legends, the Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de Leon discovered the east coast of Florida and declared the area a possession of the Spanish crown. He called it la tierra florida (“flowering land”). The first city founded in the state was St. Augustine (present-day St. Johns County) in 1564.

In the 17th and 18th centuries, Florida was the scene of bloody battles between the Spanish, the French and the English. On February 10, 1763, Great Britain, France and Spain concluded the Peace Treaty of Paris. Britain gets Florida in exchange for Havana. After the American War of Independence, Spain regained the peninsula. In 1819, she sold this marshland to the United States for $5 million and a relinquishment of all claims to Texas.

The American Civil War

Two Seminole Wars (Americans vs. Indians) were fought on the state’s territory from 1832 to 1845.

On March 3, 1845, Florida became the 27th state of the United States. The population is growing very slowly. White colonists continued to encroach on lands used by the Seminoles, and the American government was determined to make efforts to move the remaining Seminole population to the West. Thus arose the Third Seminole War (1855 – 1858) and ended with the emigration of the Indians.

During the American Civil War, Florida sided with the Confederacy (Southern States), which were subsequently defeated, and the large plantations worked by slaves ceased to exist. In 1929, when the stock market crashed, the Great Depression brought a period of stagnation. In the mid-twentieth century, Florida was the least known of the southern states.

At the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century, more and more tourists began to show interest in the “sun-bathed state”. Now 40 million people a year visit Florida, and many Americans settle here after their retirement. The state is very popular among immigrants from Latin America and especially Cuba. This explains Florida’s unusually high rate of population growth.

Geography

Most of Florida is located on the peninsula of the same name between the Gulf of Mexico, the Atlantic Ocean and the Strait of Florida. It continues to the northwest along a narrow and long strip of land jutting out into the bay. To the north it borders the states of Alabama and Georgia. Several Caribbean countries are nearby, especially the Bahamas and Cuba. Florida’s extensive coastline made it a stubborn target in World War II. The government encircles the state from end to end with airstrips. Today, approximately 400 of them are not working. The state has 131 public airports and more than 700 private airports, airstrips, helipads and naval bases.

Florida is one of the largest states east of the Mississippi River, and only Alaska and Michigan are larger in water area.

Everglades National Park

The Florida peninsula is a hollow plateau of karst limestone. A continuous system of underwater caves, karst holes and springs from end to end of the state supplies the residents with water. Calcareous limestones and sandy soils are deposited after millions of years of rising and falling sea levels. During the last ice age (12,000 BC), the lowered sea level and dry climate revealed a wide peninsula, largely desert.

The Everglades are a vast, very slow-moving wetland at the southern end of the peninsula. Because Florida does not sit on a tectonic plate, the likelihood of earthquakes is very low, but by no means impossible. In January 1879, an earthquake occurred near St. Augustine, Florida. There are no reports of strong earthquakes. There was a strong one in 1886 with the epicenter in Charleston, South Carolina. Seismic waves reached North Florida and the bell tower of St. Augustine sank. In 2006, a magnitude 6.0 earthquake 420 km southeast of Tampa shook the Gulf of Mexico.

The highest point in Florida is Britton Hill – 105 m, in the northern part of the state. This is the lowest point of all the states. Most of the counties south of Orlando are flat; in some places they reach 15 – 30 m above sea level. In central and northern Florida, 40 km from the coastline, there is a hilly, undulating topography. The altitude there reaches 30 – 76 m. The highest point on the Florida peninsula is Sugarloaf Mountain – 95 m above sea level, in Lake County. Because of its mostly flat nature, Florida is one of the places in the world most threatened by global warming.

The largest in the state and the second largest freshwater lake in continental America is Okeechobee in the central part of the peninsula. Florida was once a swampy plain, overgrown with many mangoes and inhabited by alligators. National parks: Everglades, Biscayne, Dry Tortugas.

Climate

The climate in the northern part of the state is subtropical, and in the south – tropical. The highest measured temperature was 43 °C (in 1931), the lowest was –19 °C (in 1899) near Tallahassee. The average temperature is around 32 °C. Sometimes the state is hit by tornadoes, but the most dangerous natural disaster is hurricanes. They cause billions of dollars in damage, kill people, carry off and destroy houses. From 1855 to 2006, 114 hurricanes passed through Florida, 37 of them were Category 3 or higher. Modern construction methods and accurate weather forecasting have helped reduce the amount of destruction caused by hurricanes. The strongest hurricanes are Labor Day (1935), Camilla (1969), Katrina(2005), Andrew (1986), Indianola (1886), Gustav (2008), Wilma, Irma, Donna.

Population

Florida is the fourth most populous state in the United States. In 2007, it had 18,251,000 inhabitants. Florida is the third state with the highest population growth.

Ethnicity: 76.1% White American 15.4% African American 0.3% American Indian 2.2% Asian 0.1% Hawaiian 4.3% Other 20.1% Cuban, Caribbean, etc.

Languages: English is official (76.9%), Spanish is also spoken (16.4%). The remaining 6.7% speak other languages.

Religion: Protestants predominate (40%), Roman Catholics 26%, Baptists – 9%, Methodists – 6%, Pentecostal – 3%, Muslims – 1%, other religions – 2%, atheists – 16%.

Cities

  • Viero Beach
  • Gainesville
  • Daytona Beach
  • Destin
  • Jacksonville
  • West Palm Beach
  • Inverness
  • Clearwater
  • Miami
  • Miami Beach
  • Miramar
  • Naples
  • New Smyrna Beach
  • Orlando
  • Palm Bay
  • Sarasota
  • Saint Petersburg
  • Tallahassee
  • Tampa
  • Fort Lauderdale
  • Hollywood

Counties

According to Countryaah, Florida consists of 67 counties:

  1. Alachua
  2. Bey
  3. Baker
  4. Bradford
  5. Broward
  6. Brvard
  7. Washington
  8. Volusha
  9. Gadsden
  10. Gilchrist
  11. Glades
  12. Gulf
  13. DeSoto
  14. Jackson
  15. Jefferson
  16. Dixie
  17. Duvall
  18. Escambia
  19. Indian River
  20. Calhoun
  21. Clay
  22. Collier
  23. Colombia
  24. Lafayette
  25. Levy
  26. Lake
  27. Liberty
  28. Lee
  29. Lyon
  30. Manatees
  31. Marion
  32. Martin
  33. Miami-Dade
  34. Madison
  35. Monroe
  36. Naso
  37. The ocalusa
  38. Orange
  39. Okeechobee
  40. Osceola
  41. Palm Beach
  42. Pasco
  43. Pinellas
  44. Col
  45. Putnam
  46. Santa Rosa
  47. Sarasota
  48. St. John’s
  49. St. Lucy
  50. Seminole
  51. Citrus
  52. Suani
  53. Sumter
  54. Taylor
  55. Wakula
  56. Walton
  57. Flagler
  58. Franklin
  59. Hamilton
  60. Highlands
  61. Hardy
  62. Hendry
  63. Hernando
  64. Hillsborough
  65. Holmes
  66. The Charlotte
  67. Union

Population over the years

  • 1830 – 34,730
  • 1840 – 54,477
  • 1850 – 87,445
  • 1860 – 140,424
  • 1870 – 187,748
  • 1880 – 269,492
  • 1890 – 391,422
  • 1900 – 528,542
  • 1910 – 752,619
  • 1920 – 968,470
  • 1930 – 1,468,211
  • 1940 – 1,897,414
  • 1950 – 2,771,305
  • 1960 – 4,951,560
  • 1970 – 6,789,443
  • 1980 – 9,746,324
  • 1990 – 12,937,926
  • 2000 – 15,982,378
  • 2007 – 18,251,243
  • 2012 – 19,317,568

Tallahassee (FL)

Country USA
State Florida
Area 268 km²
Highness height 62 m
Population 188,107 people (2014)
702 people/km²
Founding 1824
ZIP code 32300–32399, 32300, 32303, 32308, 32310, 32313, 32318, 32319, 32314, 32315, 32320, 32323, 32326, 32330, 32332, 32337, 32341, 32344, 32347, 32350, 32354, 32356, 32357, 32362, 32366, 32367, 32369, 32371, 32372, 32376, 32379, 32382, 32385, 32389, 32395, 32399
Telephone code 850
Official site www.talgov.com
Tallahassee

Location of Tallahassee in Florida.

Tallahassee (English: Tallahassee) is a city and the capital of the state of Florida in the United States. Tallahassee has a population of 188,107 inhabitants (2014) and a total area of ​​254.50 km². Tallahassee means “old fields” or “old town” in the Native American language. From Tallahassee is the musical group Creed.

On October 20, 1984, the famous physicist Paul Dirac died in Tallahassee, where he taught at Florida State University at the end of his life. He was buried in the local cemetery.

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