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Florida (state) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 28 00 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 28.0000 decimal degrees |
| Long: 082 00 00 W degrees minutes |
Long: -82.0000 decimal degrees |
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Note: On low-lying peninsula inhabited by 8,000 BCE; farming began by 500 BCE, with hunters/fishers living in N and some immigration from Cuba and Bahamas; Seminoles lived here in 19th cen.; Spanish arrived in 16th century, but major European influx came in 19th century. |
Names: |
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| Florida (preferred,C,V,English)
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............ | named by Ponce de León in Spring of 1513, after "Pascua florida," the "flowery Easter season" |
| Florida (Spanish)
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| Florida (German)
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| FL (C,V,USPS)
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| Флоридæ (C,U,Ossetian/Ossetic)
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| Floarida (C,U,Western Frisian)
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| Florid (C,U,Haitian (Haitian Creole))
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| Flórida (C,U,Portuguese)
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| Flòrida (C,U,Sardinian)
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| Flórídạ (C,U,Igbo)
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| Flórída (C,U,Icelandic)
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| Florida Shitati (C,U,Uyghur)
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| Florida suyu (C,U,Ayamará)
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| Florida suyu (Quechuan)
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| Floride (C,U,French)
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| Florido (C,U,Esperanto)
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| Floryda (C,U,Polish)
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| Fluorėda (C,U,Samogitian)
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| Fu-lò-lî-tha̍t (C,U,Chinese, Hakka)
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| Gah Bikeeʼ Taahíʼahí (C,U,Navajo)
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| Pololika (C,U,Hawaiian)
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| State of Florida (C,U,English)
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| Sunshine State (C,U,English)
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| Tegesta (C,U)
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| Флорида (C,U,Karachay-Balkar)
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| Флорида (Russian)
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| Флорида (Kazakh)
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| Флорида (Mongolian)
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| Флорида (Ukrainian)
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| Флорида (Bulgarian)
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| Флорида (Tatar)
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| Флорида (Chechen)
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| Флорида (Western Mari)
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| Флорида (Chuvash)
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| Флорида (Russia Buriat)
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| Флорида (Bashkir)
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| Флорида (Yakut)
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| Флорида (Serbian)
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| Флорида (Macedonian)
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| Флорида (Lezgian)
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| فلوریڈا (C,U,Panjabi, Western)
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| فلوریڈا (Urdu)
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| फ्लोरिडा (C,U,Nepali)
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| फ्लोरिडा (Pali)
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| फ्लोरिडा (Sanskrit)
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| फ्लोरिडा (Marathi)
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| فلوريدا (C,U,Arabic)
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| فلوريدا (Arabic, Egyptian)
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| ፍሎሪዳ (C,U,Amharic)
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| ഫ്ലോറിഡ (C,U,Malayalam)
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| फ़्लोरिडा (C,U,Hindi)
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| รัฐฟลอริดา (C,U,Thai)
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| ᑉᓘᕇᑖ (C,U,Inuktitut)
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| ფლორიდა (C,U,Georgian)
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| 佛罗里达州 (C,U,Chinese, Wu)
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| 佛罗里达州 (Chinese)
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| Φλόριντα (C,U,Greek)
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| ఫ్లోరిడా (C,U,Telugu)
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| فلۆریدا (C,U,Central Kurdish)
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| ཧྥོ་ལོ་རི་ཌ། (C,U,Tibetan)
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| 佛羅里達州 (C,U,Chinese, Yue)
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| ফ্লোরিডা (C,U,Bishnupriya Manipuri)
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| ফ্লোরিডা (Bengali)
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| ਫ਼ਲੌਰਿਡਾ (C,U,Panjabi, Eastern)
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| ဖလော်ရီဒါပြည်နယ် (C,U,Burmese)
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| ಫ್ಲಾರಿಡ (C,U,Kannada)
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| فلوریدا (C,U,Persian-Farsi)
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| فلوریدا (Mazanderani)
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| フロリダ州 (C,U,Japanese)
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| Штат Фларыда (C,U,Belarusian)
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| फ्लोरिदा (C,U,Newari)
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| פלארידע (C,U,Yiddish)
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| Плоорид (C,U,Kalmyk)
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| فئلوریدا (C,U,Northern Luri)
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| פלורידה (C,U,Hebrew )
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| فلوریدا ایالتی (C,U,Azerbaijani, South)
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| Ֆլորիդա (C,U,Armenian)
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| Флориде (C,U)
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| 플로리다 주 (C,U,Korean)
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| புளோரிடா (C,U,Tamil)
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Place Types: |
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| state (preferred, B) |
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since March 3, 1845 |
| first level subdivision (C) |
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Related geographic places: |
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| capital is .... |
Tallahassee .......... (inhabited place) |
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(World, North and Central America, United States, Florida, Leon county) [7013938] |
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