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Florida, The Sunshine State
By Sardool Sikandar
Florida is a low peninsula state of the southeast United States between the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico. Florida was admitted as the 27th state in 1845. It was one of the Confederate states during the Civil War.
The state of Florida is bordered by Georgia and Alabama. Tallahassee is the capital and Jacksonville the largest city of Florida. FL is the abbreviation of Florida.
The nickname of the state of Florida is the “sunshine state”. Juan Ponce de León discovered and settled on the peninsula on Easter Sunday, March 27, 1513, which is known as Pascua Florida in Spanish. ‘Florida’ is a Spanish adjective that means flowery.
Florida's economy is mainly based on tourism industry. The sunny weather and hundreds of miles of beautiful beach attracts the tourists from all parts of the world. The florida vacation, florida beach vacation, florida golf vacation and florida vacation packages are the most coveted holiday.
The orange blossom state, Florida is home of Walt Disney World, an amusement park near Orlando, and many other theme parks. The Walt Disney World Resort with four theme parks, numerous water parks, exquisite florida hotels, shopping centers are major tourist attractions of the state.
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The state is also home to the Kennedy Space Center. St. Augustine, located on the coast of Northern Florida, is the oldest city in the United States, settled in the sixteenth century by Spain.
Destin, Jacksonville, Key West, Miami, Naples, Tampa, Saint Petersburg, Hialeah, Orlando, Fort Lauderdale, Tallahassee, Pembroke Pines and Hollywood are the gem cities of Florida.
Destin is commonly known as ‘The World's Luckiest Fishing Village’. Jacksonville or J-Ville is dubbed as “Where Florida Begins”. Key West is known as the Southernmost City. Miami is nicknamed as the “Magic City”. Orlando is widely known as “The Imaginary City”. Tallahassee is popularly dubbed as “Tally-Ho” or “The Hill” and Tampa is nicknamed as “The Cigar City”.
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Florida has the 4th highest state
population in the United States .
As of 2006, Florida's population was
18,089,888; an increase of 2,107,510
(over 13%) from 2000.
Florida grows an average of 26,803 every
month, 6700 every week, and 957 daily.
Florida is the nation's
third-fastest-growing state.
Today, large concentrations of black
residents can be found in northern Florida
and South Florida where their numbers
have been bolstered by significant
immigration from Haiti and Jamaica.
Florida's Hispanic population includes
large communities of Cuban Americans in
Miami and Tampa, Puerto Ricans in Tampa
and Orlando, and Central American
migrant workers in inland West-Central
and South Florida.
Whites of all ethnicities are present in all
areas of the state. Those of British and
Irish ancestry are present in large
numbers in all the urban/suburban areas
across the state.
There is a large German population in
Southwest Florida, a large Greek
population in the Tarpon Springs area, a
sizable and historic Italian community in
the Miami area, and white Floridians of
longer-present generations in the
culturally southern areas of inland and
northern Florida.
Native white Floridians, especially those
who have descended from long-time
Florida families, affectionately refer to
themselves as "Florida crackers." Like all
the other southern states, they descend
mainly from Scots-Irish as well as some
British settlers.
Florida is mostly Protestant, with a Roman Catholic
community that is growing because of immigration; it
is now the single largest denomination in the state.
There is also a sizable Jewish community, located
mainly in South Florida; no other Southern state has
such a large Jewish population.
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