Sarasota, Florida
Sarasota () is a city in and the county seat of Sarasota County, Florida, United States. It is located in Southwest Florida, the southern end of the Greater Tampa Bay Area, and north of Fort Myers and Punta Gorda. Its official limits include Sarasota Bay and several barrier islands between the bay and the Gulf of Mexico. Sarasota is a principal city of the Sarasota metropolitan area. According to the 2020 U.S. census, Sarasota had a population of 54,842. The Sarasota city limits contain several keys, including Lido Key, St. Armands Key, Otter Key, Casey Key, Coon Key, Bird Key, and portions of Siesta Key. Longboat Key is the largest key separating the bay from the gulf. The city limits expanded significantly with the real estate rush of the early twentieth century, reaching almost . The speculation boom began to crash in 1926 and the city limits began to contract, shrinking to less than a quarter of that area. History The area known today as Sarasota appeared on a sheepski ...
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List Of Municipalities In Florida
Florida is a U.S. state, state located in the Southern United States, Southern United States. There are 267 Administrative divisions of Florida#Municipalities, cities, 123 towns, and 21 villages in the U.S. state of Florida, a total of 411 municipal corporation, incorporated municipalities. They are distributed across 67 List of counties in Florida, counties, in addition to 66 county governments. Jacksonville has the only consolidated city–county government in the state, so there is no Duval County, Florida, Duval County government. However, smaller municipal governments exist within the consolidated municipality, e.g., Baldwin, Florida, Baldwin and the Jacksonville Beaches. All but two of Florida's county seats are incorporated municipalities (the exceptions are Crawfordville, Florida, Crawfordville, county seat of rural Wakulla County, Florida, Wakulla County; and East Naples, Florida, East Naples, county seat of Collier County, Florida, Collier County).'' Incorporated munic ...
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