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Lake City, Florida
Lake City, Florida, formerly Alligator, is the county seat of Columbia County in North Central Florida, near the intersection of Interstates 75 and 10, with a 2020 population of 12,329.
Lakeland, Florida
Lakeland, Florida: largest city in Polk County on the I-4 corridor between Tampa and Orlando; incorporated January 1, 1885 by Abraham Munn; 124,990 residents (2024 est.); 38 named lakes; Publix headquarters; Frank Lloyd Wright's largest single-site campus; Detroit Tigers spring training.
Marco Island, Florida
Marco Island, Florida: a Gulf-coast barrier-island city in Collier County, largest of the Ten Thousand Islands, developed by the Mackle Brothers from 1962, incorporated 1997, population about 16,000.
Melbourne, Florida
Melbourne, Florida: a Space Coast city in southern Brevard County astride the Indian River Lagoon, incorporated 1888 and named for Melbourne, Australia; merged with Eau Gallie in 1969; 2020 population 84,678.
Miami
Miami, Florida: city incorporated July 28, 1896 after Julia Tuttle persuaded Henry Flagler to extend the Florida East Coast Railroad; nicknamed the Magic City, now a majority-foreign-born hub of Latin American trade.
Miami Beach, Florida
Miami Beach, Florida: resort city on a barrier island in Miami-Dade County, incorporated March 26, 1915 by John Collins and Carl Fisher; population 82,890 (2020), famed for its Art Deco District and sea level rise adaptation programs.
Miami Gardens, Florida
Miami Gardens, Florida: city in north-central Miami-Dade County incorporated May 13, 2003; third largest city in the county, largest predominantly African-American municipality in Florida, home of Hard Rock Stadium.
Miramar, Florida
Miramar, Florida, a Broward County city incorporated May 26, 1955 with under 200 residents, named after a Havana suburb; grew to about 135,000-143,000 people, fourth largest in Broward.
Naples, Florida
Naples, Florida: Gulf-coast city in Collier County, incorporated 1923, population about 20,000, median age 67.3, wealthy retirement destination with $1.5 million median home values, NCH hospital, and hurricane and sea-level-rise exposure.
New Smyrna Beach, Florida
New Smyrna Beach is a coastal city in Volusia County, Florida, population about 30,000, founded in 1768 as Andrew Turnbull's New Smyrnea Colony, known for surfing, tourism, beach restoration, and shark bites.
Ocala, Florida
Ocala, Florida: county seat and largest city of Marion County in north-central Florida, the "Horse Capital of the World" with about 600 thoroughbred farms, Silver Springs glass-bottom boats, and the fastest-growing U.S. metro in 2025.
Opa-locka, Florida
Opa-locka is a city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, founded May 14, 1926 by aviator Glenn Curtiss with architect Bernhardt Muller around an Arabian Nights theme, known for its Moorish Revival architecture, 20 National Register buildings, and 2020 population of 16,463.
Orlando, Florida
Orlando, Florida: county seat of Orange County, incorporated 1875, population about 334,000 in 2025, anchor of the 2.96-million Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford metro and a global theme-park and tourism hub.
Ormond Beach, Florida
Ormond Beach is a Volusia County, Florida city just north of Daytona Beach, incorporated April 22, 1880 as Ormond. Known for the 1888 Ormond Hotel, Rockefeller's Casements, and beach auto racing.
Palm Bay, Florida
Palm Bay, Florida: largest city in Brevard County on the Indian River Lagoon, founded as Tillman in 1887, incorporated 1960; defense and engineering economy led by L3Harris; 2020 census population 119,760.
Palm Beach Gardens, Florida
Palm Beach Gardens, Florida: a Palm Beach County city founded by insurance magnate John D. MacArthur in 1959 as a garden city; about 64,000 residents, former PGA of America headquarters, PGA National Resort, and the Avenir development.
Palm Beach, Florida
Palm Beach, Florida: an incorporated (April 17, 1911) barrier-island town in Palm Beach County with about 9,000 year-round and 20,000 seasonal residents, council-manager government under Mayor Danielle H. Moore, Flagler-era landmarks, and three miles of public beaches.
Palm Coast, Florida
Palm Coast, Florida: a planned city in eastern Flagler County along the Intracoastal Waterway, built from the late 1960s by ITT Community Development Corporation with 48,000 platted lots, incorporated December 31, 1999, population 109,886 (2025 estimate).
Panama City Beach, Florida
Panama City Beach, Florida (PCB): a Gulf Coast resort city in Bay County, incorporated 1970 from four merged communities, with about 20,000 residents, 27 miles of white-sand beaches, roughly 4.5 million annual visitors, no property tax, and a tourism-driven economy.
Panama City, Florida
Panama City, Florida, county seat of Bay County on St. Andrews Bay; founded as Harrison, renamed by G.M. West in 1906; 37,806 residents (2025 est.); port, military, and tourism economy; recovering from 2018's Hurricane Michael.
Parkland, Florida
Parkland, Florida: a city in northwest Broward County founded in 1963 by cattle farmer Bruce B. Blount as BBB Ranches. Known for large-lot homes, nine parks, high incomes, and the 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting.
Pembroke Pines, Florida
Pembroke Pines is a city in southwestern Broward County, Florida, incorporated January 16, 1960; 171,178 residents at the 2020 census, second most populous in Broward County, 11th in Florida.
Pensacola, Florida
Pensacola is the county seat of Escambia County in the Florida Panhandle, home to Naval Air Station Pensacola and the Blue Angels, with a 2020 population of 54,312.
Plantation, Florida
Plantation, Florida: a Broward County city incorporated April 30, 1953, founded by Frederick C. Peters on 10,000 acres; 91,750 residents in 2020, strong-mayor government, Gateway/Midtown/Technology Park business districts.
Pompano Beach, Florida
Pompano Beach, Florida: coastal Broward County city between Fort Lauderdale and Boca Raton, population 112,046 (2020), incorporated 1908, named for the pompano fish, known for beaches, pier, and industrial base.
Port St. Lucie, Florida
Port St. Lucie, Florida: a city in St. Lucie County incorporated in 1961 by General Development Corporation, grown to about 268,000 residents by 2025, with 84% homeownership, a $2.2 billion 2050 mobility plan, and an 11-year streak of millage cuts.
Punta Gorda, Florida
Punta Gorda, Florida: Charlotte County city on Charlotte Harbor, founded as Trabue in 1884, incorporated 1887; railroad and fishing port, landfall site of Hurricane Charley (2004), population about 20,000.
Rosemary Beach, Florida
Rosemary Beach is a 107-acre New Urbanist beach community founded in 1995 in unincorporated Walton County, Florida, on Scenic Highway 30A, planned by DPZ with Caribbean-influenced architecture, a governing Code, and residents-only beach access.
Sanford, Florida
Sanford, Florida: Seminole County seat on Lake Monroe at the head of St. Johns River navigation, incorporated 1877 by Henry Shelton Sanford; 61,051 residents in 2020, historic downtown, SunRail, and Orlando Sanford International Airport.
Sanibel, Florida
Sanibel, Florida: barrier-island city in Lee County, southwest Florida, incorporated 1974, known for shelling beaches, the Ding Darling refuge, the 1976 Sanibel Plan, and Hurricane Ian recovery.