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[edit]![Deerfield Beach](http://up.wiki.x.io/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Deerfield_Beach_Pier_02.jpg/300px-Deerfield_Beach_Pier_02.jpg)
Deerfield Beach is a city in Broward County, Florida, USA. The city is named for the numerous deer that once roamed the area. As of 2004, the population estimated by the U.S. Census Bureau is 76,478. It is part of the South Florida metropolitan area, which is home to 5,463,857 people.
![St. Petersburg Pier at sunset](http://up.wiki.x.io/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/StPtPier.jpg/320px-StPtPier.jpg)
The St. Petersburg Pier, simply called "The Pier" by locals, was a major tourist destination in downtown St. Petersburg, Florida. Some of the activities and sights it encompasses include: fishing, boat rentals, weekly festivals, and the pier aquarium. Shopping, dining and nightlife are other amenities.
![Daytona Beach Bandshell - venue for concerts and other events](http://up.wiki.x.io/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/DaytonaBeach-Bandshell.jpg/310px-DaytonaBeach-Bandshell.jpg)
Daytona Beach is a coastal resort city in Volusia County, Florida, United States. Located on the East Coast of the United States, its population was 72,647 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Deltona–Daytona Beach–Ormond Beach metropolitan area, and is a principal city of the Fun Coast region of Florida. (Full article...)
![Fort Jefferson](http://up.wiki.x.io/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/Fort-Jefferson_Dry-Tortugas.jpg/320px-Fort-Jefferson_Dry-Tortugas.jpg)
Dry Tortugas National Park preserves Fort Jefferson and the Dry Tortugas section of the Florida Keys. The park covers 101 mi² (262 km²), mostly water, about 68 statute miles (109 km) west of Key West in the Gulf of Mexico.
![Discovery Cove amusement park](http://up.wiki.x.io/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/DisccoveDolphin.jpg/350px-DisccoveDolphin.jpg)
Discovery Cove is a theme park near Orlando, Florida where guests can interact with a variety of marine animals, most notably bottlenose dolphins. The park, which is operated by the Busch Entertainment Corporation (the theme park division of Anheuser-Busch) is adjacent to SeaWorld Orlando. In addition to swimming with dolphins, Discovery Cove guests can interact with exotic birds, tropical fishes, rays and land mammals.
![TPC at Sawgrass](http://up.wiki.x.io/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/TPC_Sawgrass_17.jpg/400px-TPC_Sawgrass_17.jpg)
The TPC at Sawgrass is a well-known golf course in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, and was the inaugural Tournament Players Club. Sawgrass has two courses, the Stadium Course and the Valley Course, and is also home to the PGA Tour's headquarters. The Stadium Course at the TPC at Sawgrass is home to The PLAYERS Championship, the PGA Tour's flagship event, and is widely regarded as one of the toughest golf courses in the world
![The Myakka River](http://up.wiki.x.io/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Myakka_River.jpg/350px-Myakka_River.jpg)
The Myakka River is a river in southwestern Florida. It arises near the Hardee-Manatee county line and flows southwest and then southeast through Manatee, Sarasota and Charlotte counties to Charlotte Harbor, an arm of the Gulf of Mexico. The river is 68 miles long and has a drainage basin of 235 square miles. The last twenty miles of the river is tidal and brackish.
![Anna Maria Island](http://up.wiki.x.io/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/Anna_Maria_Island.jpg/300px-Anna_Maria_Island.jpg)
Anna Maria, is a city in Manatee County, Florida, United States. The population was 1,814 at the 2000 census. According to the 2005 U.S. Census Bureau's estimates, the city grew slightly to 1,867.
![Sunset over the Marshes of Everglades National Park](http://up.wiki.x.io/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Watching_Sunset_Over_Marshes.jpg/350px-Watching_Sunset_Over_Marshes.jpg)
Everglades National Park is a national park in the state of Florida. The largest subtropical wilderness in the United States, it contains the southern 25 percent of the original Everglades marshland region of southwestern Florida. Visited by one million people each year,it is the third-largest national park in the lower 48 states after Death Valley National Park and Yellowstone National Park.
![Florida State Hospital](http://up.wiki.x.io/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Chattahoochee_FSH_Amos_Bldg01.jpg/350px-Chattahoochee_FSH_Amos_Bldg01.jpg)
Florida State Hospital at Chattahoochee was established in 1876 and until 1947 it was Florida's only state mental institution. The hospital was originally the site of the Apalachicola Arsenal built in the 1830s and named after the nearby Apalachicola River. The hospital's current Administration Building is the original Officers' Quarters of the Arsenal and is on the National Register of Historic Places.
Lake Okeechobee, (IPA: /okɪtʃobi/) locally referred to as Lake O or The Big Lake is a freshwater lake in the U.S. state of Florida. It is the second-largest freshwater lake wholly within the continental United States, second only to Lake Michigan and the largest in the southern United States.
![Disney's Polynesian Resort](http://up.wiki.x.io/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Waterfall_at_the_Polynesian.jpg/350px-Waterfall_at_the_Polynesian.jpg)
Disney's Polynesian Resort is a Disney-owned Deluxe resort located at Walt Disney World in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, United States, that began operation on October 1, 1971. The resort has a South Pacific and Hawaiian theme. It was originally called the Polynesian Village, "Resort" replaced "Village" after the resort hotel's expansion in 1985. This is one of two of the original Disney World resorts, the other one being the Contemporary resort.
![An artists impression of Fort Pickens](http://up.wiki.x.io/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Fort-pickens.jpg/350px-Fort-pickens.jpg)
Fort Pickens is a pentagonal historic United States military fort on Santa Rosa Island in the Pensacola, Florida area. It is named after American Revolutionary War hero Andrew Pickens. The fort was completed in 1834 and remained in use until 1947.
![Sunset of Key Largo, Florida](http://up.wiki.x.io/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Sunsetkeylargoflotida.jpg/350px-Sunsetkeylargoflotida.jpg)
Key Largo is an island in the upper Florida Keys archipelago and, at 33 miles (53 km) long, the largest of the Keys. It is also the northernmost of the Florida Keys in Monroe County, and the northernmost of the Keys connected by U.S. Highway 1 (the Overseas Highway).
![Dolphin Stadium](http://up.wiki.x.io/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Dolphin_Stadium.jpg/350px-Dolphin_Stadium.jpg)
Dolphin Stadium (previously known as Joe Robbie Stadium, Pro Player Park, Pro Player Stadium, and Dolphins Stadium) is a football, lacrosse, soccer, and baseball stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida, a suburb north of Miami. The stadium serves as host to the Miami Dolphins, the Florida Marlins, and the Miami Hurricanes.
![The main street in Alachua downtown historic district](http://up.wiki.x.io/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Alachua_Hist_Dist_Main_St01.jpg/320px-Alachua_Hist_Dist_Main_St01.jpg)
Alachua County is a county located in the U.S. state of Florida. The U.S. Census Bureau 2006 estimate for the county is 227,120. Its county seat is Gainesville, Florida. Alachua County is best known as the home of the University of Florida, and much of its economy revolves around the university.