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The State of Florida is located in the southeastern region of the USA. Most of the state is a large peninsula with the Gulf of Mexico on its west and the Atlantic Ocean on its east. Much of the state has a humid subtropical climate, except for southern Florida, where the climate is tropical. Florida was named by Juan Ponce de Leon, who landed on the peninsula in 1513
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WALT DISNEY WORLD,
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Everglades National Park,
Florida Keys,
Fort Lauderdale,
Jacksonville,
Kennedy Space Center,
Miami,
St. Augustine,
Sanibel Island,
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DESTINATION KEY WEST
The original Key West settlement on the western part of the island is called Old Town and comprises the Key West Historic District. It includes the major tourist destinations of the island, including Mallory Square, Duval Street, the Truman Annex and Fort Zachary Taylor. Generally, the structures date from 1886 to 1912 ...
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DESTINATION ORLANDO
Orlando is well known for the tourist attractions in the area, particularly the nearby Walt Disney World Resort, which is in the Reedy Creek Improvement District . Other area attractions include SeaWorld and Universal Orlando Resort. Despite being far from the main tourist attractions, downtown Orlando has recently seen ...
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Aquatica,
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Gatorland,
Harry P. Leu Gardens,
International Drive,
Islands of Adventure,
Orange County Regional History Center,
Orlando Science Center,
SeaWorld Orlando,
Universal Studios,
Walt Disney World,
Wet'n'Wild,
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WALT DISNEY WORLD RESORT
The original Key West settlement on the western part of the island is called Old Town and comprises the Key West Historic District. It includes the major tourist destinations of the island, including Mallory Square, Duval Street, the Truman Annex and Fort Zachary Taylor. Generally, the structures date from 1886 to 1912 ...
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WALT DISNEY WORLD RESORT:
Cinderella Castle,
Disney's Animal Kingdom,
Disney's Hollywood Studios,
Epcot,
Haunted Mansion,
It's a Small World,
Magic Kingdom,
Mission Space,
Monorail,
Pirates of the Caribbean,
Spaceship Earth,
Tree of Life,
Walt Disney,
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DAYTONA INTERNATIONAL SPEEDWAY
Daytona International Speedway is a race track in Daytona Beach. Since opening in 1959, it has been the home to the biggest race in all of NASCAR, the Daytona 500. Today the facility has a seating capacity of almost 168,000 spectators. It hosts races of motor vehicles of various kinds, including go-karts, motorcycles, sports cars, modified pickup trucks, and stock cars ...
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DRY TORTUGAS NATIONAL PARK
Dry Tortugas National Park preserves Fort Jefferson and the Dry Tortugas section of the Florida Keys. It is famous for abundant sea life, colorful coral reefs and legends of shipwrecks and sunken treasures. The park's centerpiece is Fort Jefferson, a massive but unfinished coastal fortress. It is the largest masonry structure in the Western Hemisphere ...
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EVERGLADES NATIONAL PARK
Everglades National Park is a national park in the U.S. state of Florida that protects the southern 25 percent of the original Everglades. It is the largest subtropical wilderness in the United States, and is visited on average by one million people each year. It is the third-largest national park in the lower 48 states after Death Valley and Yellowstone ...
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FLORIDA KEYS
The Florida Keys are a chain-like cluster of about 1700 islands in the southeast United States. They begin at the southeastern tip of the Florida peninsula, about 15 miles (24 km) south of Miami, and extend in a gentle arc south-southwest and then westward to Key West, the westernmost of the inhabited islands, and on to the uninhabited Dry Tortugas ...
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FORT LAUDERDALE
Fort Lauderdale is sometimes known as the Venice of America because of its expansive and intricate canal system. The city is a major yachting center, with 42,000 resident yachts and 100 marinas and boatyards. The city sits 23 miles north of Miami, Florida. Fort Lauderdale and the surrounding area host over 4100 restaurants and 120 nightclubs ...
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DISCOVER JACKSONVILLE
Jacksonville is located in the First Coast region of northeast Florida and is centered on the banks of the St. Johns River, about 25 miles south of the Georgia border and about 340 miles north of Miami. The European-American settlement that became Jacksonville was founded in 1791 as Cowford, so named because of its location at a narrow point in the river ...
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER
The John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC) is the U.S. government installation that manages and operates America's astronaut launch facilities. Serving as the base for the country's three space shuttles, the NASA field center also conducts unmanned civilian launches from adjacent Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (operated by the 45th Space Wing) ...
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Miami is a well-known global city due to its importance in finance, commerce, culture, media, fashion, education, film, print media, entertainment, the arts and international trade. Known as The Gateway to the Americas, Miami is an international center for entertainment, education, media, music, fashion, film, culture, print media, and the performing arts ...
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St. Augustine is a city in the northeast section of Florida and the county seat of St. Johns County. Founded in 1565 by Spanish explorer and admiral, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, it is the oldest continuously occupied European-established city and port in the USA. St. Augustine lies in a region of Florida known as The First Coast ...
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Sanibel Island is an island located on the Gulf coast of Florida, just offshore of Fort Myers. Sanibel is a barrier island - a collection of sand on the leeward side of the Gulf Stream from the more solid coral-rock of Pine Island. Thanks in part to the new causeway, Sanibel is rapidly becoming a popular tourist destination known for its beaches, shelling, and wildlife refuges ...
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