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Miami is in the southeastern corner of the state of Florida. Miami and the surrounding metropolitan area are situated on northern Biscayne Bay between the Everglades and the Atlantic Ocean. By population, Miami is the second-largest city in Florida (after Jacksonville), and the county seat and largest city of Miami-Dade County. It is also the largest city in the South Florida metropolitan area, which comprises Miami-Dade County, Broward County,
and Palm Beach County, making up the largest metropolitan area in the
Southeastern United States and the sixth largest in the country as a
whole.
According to the 2000 census, the the larger metropolitan area had a
population over 5,000,000.
Miami's explosive population growth in recent years has been driven
by internal migration from other parts of the country as well as by
immigration. Greater Miami is regarded as a cultural melting pot,
heavily influenced both by its very large population of ethnic Latin
Americans and Caribbean islanders (many of them Spanish or Haitian
Creole-speaking).
The region's importance as an international financial and cultural
center has elevated Miami to the status of world city; because of its
cultural and linguistic ties to North, South, and Central America,
and the Caribbean it is sometimes called "The Gateway of the
Americas." Florida's former status as a colony of Spain, and its
continued ties with that country (Spain has a consulate in this city)
and her colonies also make Miami and the surrounding region a
contemporary part of the Hispanic world.
Practically all major foreign countries today maintain consulates in
Miami. The city has been involved in numerous political controversies
with nearby Cuba and Fidel Castro, plus wider concerns with
terrorism, immigration, and drug issues throughout the region.
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