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Miami, Florida

Miami ( or ) is a global city

Global city

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in southeastern Florida

Florida

Florida is a U.S. state located in the Southeastern United States of the United States, bordering Alabama to the northwest and Georgia to the northeast....
, in the United States. Miami is the county seat

County seat

A county seat or parish seat is a term for an administrative center for a county or civil parish, primarily used in the United States. In the Northeast United States, the statutory term often is shire town, but colloquially county seat is the term in use there....
of Miami-Dade County

Miami-Dade County, Florida

Miami-Dade County is a county located in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Florida. The United States Census Bureau estimates that the county population was 2,387,170 in 2007, making it the most populous county in Florida and the List of the most populous counties in the United States....
, the most populous county in Florida. With an estimated population of 409,719 in 2007, Miami is the largest city within the Miami metropolitan area

South Florida metropolitan area

South Florida encompasses a three-county area of the southeastern part of the United States U.S. state of Florida. The metropolitan area covers the counties of Miami-Dade County, Florida, Broward County, Florida and Palm Beach County, Florida....
, which is the seventh-largest metro area in the United States with over 5.4 million residents. The Miami Urbanized Area (as defined by the Census Bureau) was the fifth most populous urbanized area in the U.S.

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History

The Miami area was first inhabited for more than one thousand years by the Tequesta Indians

Tequesta

The Tequesta Native Americans in the United States tribe, at the time of first European contact, occupied an area along the southeastern Atlantic coast of Florida....
, but was later claimed for Spain

Spanish Empire

The Spanish Empire was one of the largest empires in world history, and one of the first global empires. It included territories and colonies ruled by Spain in Europe, the Americas, Africa, Asia and Oceania between the 15th and late 19th centuries....
in 1566 by Pedro Menéndez de Avilés

Pedro Menéndez de Avilés

Pedro Men?ndez de Avil?s was a sixteenth century Spanish people admiral and pirate hunter. He is best remembered for his founding of St. Augustine, Florida on August 28 1565, and also for his subsequent destruction of the French settlement of Fort Caroline....
. A Spanish mission

Mission (station)

A religious Mission or Mission station is a location for missionary work.While primarily a Christian term, the concept of the religious "Mission" is also used prominently by the Church of Scientology and their Scientology Missions International....
was constructed one year later in 1567. In 1836, Fort Dallas

Fort Dallas

Fort Dallas is a ghost town that was located on the banks of the Miami River in what is now Downtown Miami in Miami-Dade County, Florida, Florida, United States....
was built, and the Miami area subsequently became a site of fighting during the Second Seminole War

Seminole Wars

The Seminole Wars, also known as the Florida Wars, were three conflicts in Florida between various groups of Native Americans in the United States, collectively known as Seminoles, and the United States....
.

Miami holds the distinction of being the only major city in the United States founded by a woman, Julia Tuttle

Julia Tuttle

Julia DeForest Tuttle, was an entrepeneur and businesswoman who was largely responsible for, and the original owner of, much of the land upon which the city of Miami, Florida, was developed....
, who was a local citrus

Citrus

Citrus is a common term and genus of flowering plants in the family Rutaceae, originating in tropical and subtropical southeast regions of the world....
grower and a wealthy Cleveland

Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, the most populous county in the state. The municipality is located in northeastern Ohio on the southern shore of Lake Erie, approximately 60 miles west of the Pennsylvania border....
native. The Miami area was better known as "Biscayne Bay Country" in the early years of its growth. Some published reports described the area as a promising wilderness. The area was also characterized as "one of the finest building sites in Florida." The Great Freeze

Great Freeze

The Great Freeze refers to the winter of 1894-1895, especially in Florida where the brutally cold weather destroyed much of the nation's citrus crop....
of 1894-1895 hastened Miami's growth, as the crops of the Miami area were the only ones in Florida that survived. Julia Tuttle subsequently convinced Henry Flagler, a railroad tycoon, to expand his Florida East Coast Railroad to the region. Miami was officially incorporated as a city on July 28, 1896 with a population of just over 300.

Miami prospered during the 1920s with an increase in population and infrastructure but weakened after the collapse of the Florida land boom of the 1920s

Florida land boom of the 1920s

The Florida land boom of the 1920s was Florida's first real estate bubble, which burst in 1925, leaving behind entire new cities and the remains of failed development projects such as Isola di Lolando in north Biscayne Bay....
, the 1926 Miami Hurricane

1926 Miami Hurricane

The 1926 Miami Hurricane was an intense tropical cyclone that devastated Miami, Florida in September 1926. The storm also caused significant damage in the Florida Panhandle, the U.S....
and the Great Depression

Great Depression

File:International depression.pngThe Great Depression was a worldwide economic Recession starting in most places in 1929 and ending at different times in the 1930s or early 1940s for different countries....
in the 1930s. When World War II began, Miami, well-situated due to its location on the southern coast of Florida, played an important role in the battle against German submarines

U-boat

U-boat is the anglicized#Loanwords version of the German language word , itself an abbreviation of Unterseeboot , and refers to military submarines operated by Germany, particularly in World War I and World War II....
. The war helped to expand Miami's population; by 1940, 172,172 people lived in the city. After Fidel Castro

Fidel Castro

Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz is a Cuban revolutionary leader who was prime minister of Cuba from February 1959 to December 1976 and then president, premier until his resignation from the office in February 2008....
rose to power in 1959, many Cuba

Cuba

The Republic of Cuba is a country in the Caribbean. It consists of the island of Cuba , the island of Isla de la Juventud, and several adjacent small islands....
ns sought refuge in Miami, further increasing the population. In the 1980s and 1990s, various crises struck South Florida, among them the Arthur McDuffie

Arthur McDuffie

Arthur McDuffie , an African American, whose death at the hands of five white Miami-Dade police officers, and the officers' subsequent acquittals, caused one of the worst race riots in United States history....
beating and the subsequent riot, drug wars, Hurricane Andrew

Hurricane Andrew

Hurricane Andrew is the second most powerful, and the last of three Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale hurricanes that made U.S. landfall during the 20th century, after the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 and Hurricane Camille in 1969....
, and the Elián González

Elián González

The child custody and immigration status of a young Cuban boy, Eli?n Gonz?lez , was at the center of a heated controversy in 2000 involving the governments of Cuba and the United States, his father, his Miami, Florida and Cuban relatives, and the Cuban-American community of Miami....
uproar. Nevertheless, in the latter half of the 20th century, Miami became a major international, financial, and cultural center.

Miami and its metropolitan area grew from just over one thousand residents to nearly five and a half million residents in just 110 years (1896-2006). The city's nickname, The Magic City, comes from this rapid growth. Winter visitors remarked that the city grew so much from one year to the next that it was like magic.

Geography

At only of land area, Miami has the smallest land area of any major U.S. city with a metro area of at least 2.5 million people. The city proper is home to less than 1 in 13 residents of South Florida. Additionally, 52% of Miami-Dade County's population doesn't live in any incorporated city. Miami is the only major city in the United States bordered by two national parks, Everglades National Park

Everglades National Park

Everglades National Park is a List of areas in the United States National Park System in the U.S. state of Florida. The largest Subtropics wilderness in the United States, it contains the southern 25 percent of the original Everglades marshland region of southwestern Florida....
on the west, and Biscayne National Park

Biscayne National Park

Biscayne National Park is a U.S. National Park located in southern Florida, due east of Homestead, Florida. The park preserves Biscayne Bay, one of the top scuba diving areas in the United States....
on the east.

Miami and its suburbs are located on a broad plain between the Florida Everglades to the west and Biscayne Bay

Biscayne Bay

Biscayne Bay is a lagoon that is approximately 35 miles long and up to 8 miles wide located on the Atlantic coast of south Florida. It is usually divided for purposes of discussion and analysis into three parts, North Bay, Central Bay and South Bay....
to the east that also extends from Florida Bay

Florida Bay

Florida Bay is the shallow Headlands and bays located between the southern end of the Florida mainland and the Florida Keys. Its area is variously stated to be , or , or ....
north to Lake Okeechobee

Lake Okeechobee

Lake Okeechobee, locally referred to as The Lake or The Big O is a freshwater lake in the U.S. state of Florida. It is the second-largest freshwater lake wholly within the continental United States, second only to Lake Michigan and the largest in the southern United States....
. The elevation of the area never rises above 40 ft (12 m) and averages at around 6 ft (2 m) above mean sea level in most neighborhoods, especially near the coast. The highest undulations are found along the coastal Miami Rock Ridge

Miami Rock Ridge

The Miami Rock Ridge is a continuous limestone outcropping which formerly encompassed a large extent of far southern Florida, including portions of the Everglades ecosystem....
, whose substrate underlies most of the eastern Miami metropolitan region. The main portion of the city lies on the shores of Biscayne Bay which contains several hundred natural and artificially created barrier islands, the largest of which contains Miami Beach

Miami Beach, Florida

South Beach

Gulf Stream

Ocean current

An ocean current is continuous, directed movement of ocean water. The currents are generated from the forces acting upon the water like the Earth's rotation, the wind, the temperature, salinity differences and the tide....
, runs northward just 15 miles (24.1 km) off the coast, allowing the city's climate to stay warm and mild all year.

Geology

The surface bedrock under the Miami area is called Miami oolite
Oolite

Oolite is a sedimentary rock formed from ooids, spherical grains composed of concentric layers. The name derives from the Ancient Greek word ?oion for egg ....
or Miami limestone
Limestone

File:Limestone Formation In Waitomo.jpgLimestone is a sedimentary rock composed largely of the mineral calcite . The deposition of limestone strata is often a by-product and indicator of biological activity in the geology record....
. This bedrock is covered by a thin layer of soil, and is no more than 50 feet (15 m) thick. Miami limestone formed as the result of the drastic changes in sea level associated with recent glaciations or ice age
Ice age

The general term "ice age" or, more precisely, "glacial age" denotes a geological period of long-term reduction in the temperature of the Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in an expansion of continental ice sheets, polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers....
s. Beginning some 130,000 years ago the Sangamonian Stage raised sea levels to approximately 25 feet (7.5 m.) above the current level. All of southern Florida was covered by a shallow sea. Several parallel lines of reef formed along the edge of the submerged Florida plateau

Plateau

In geology and earth science, a plateau, also called a high plateau or tableland, is an area of highland , usually consisting of relatively flat terrain....
, stretching from the present Miami area to what is now the Dry Tortugas

Dry Tortugas

The Dry Tortugas are a small group of islands, located at the end of the Florida Keys, USA, about west of Key West, and west of the Marquesas Keys, at , the closest islands....
. The area behind this reef line was in effect a large lagoon, and the Miami limestone formed throughout the area from the deposition of oolite

Oolite

Oolite is a sedimentary rock formed from ooids, spherical grains composed of concentric layers. The name derives from the Ancient Greek word ?oion for egg ....
s and the shells of bryozoans. Starting about 100,000 years ago the Wisconsin glaciation

Wisconsin glaciation

The last glacial period was the most recent glacial period within the Quaternary glaciation, occurring in the Pleistocene epoch. It began about 110,000 years ago and ended between 10,000 and 15,000 Before Present....
began lowering sea levels, exposing the floor of the lagoon. By 15,000 years ago, the sea level had dropped to 300 to below the contemporary level. The sea level rose quickly after that, stabilizing at the current level about 4000 years ago, leaving the mainland

Mainland

Mainland is usually the continental part of a region, as opposed to the islands nearby. Sometimes the residents are called "the Mainlanders". As a result of the usually larger area of mainland, there are significantly more mainlanders than islanders, and mainlander culture and politics sometimes threaten to dominate those of the islands....
of South Florida just above sea level.

Beneath the plain lies the Biscayne Aquifer

Biscayne Aquifer

The Biscayne Aquifer, named after Biscayne Bay, is a surficial aquifer. It is a shallow layer of highly Permeability limestone under a portion of South Florida....
, a natural underground source of fresh water that extends from southern Palm Beach County

Palm Beach County, Florida

Florida Bay

Florida Bay is the shallow Headlands and bays located between the southern end of the Florida mainland and the Florida Keys. Its area is variously stated to be , or , or ....
, with its highest point peaking around the cities of Miami Springs

Miami Springs, Florida

Miami Springs is a city located in Miami-Dade County, Florida, Florida. The city was founded by Glenn Curtiss, "The Father of Naval Aviation", and James Bright, during the famous "land boom" of the 1920s and was originally named Country Club Estates....
and Hialeah

Hialeah, Florida

Hialeah is a city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, Florida, United States. As of the United States Census 2000, the city population was 226,419. As of 2006, the population estimate by the U.S....
. Most of the South Florida metropolitan area

South Florida metropolitan area

South Florida encompasses a three-county area of the southeastern part of the United States U.S. state of Florida. The metropolitan area covers the counties of Miami-Dade County, Florida, Broward County, Florida and Palm Beach County, Florida....
obtains its drinking water from this aquifer. As a result of the aquifer, it is not possible to dig more than 15 to 20ft (4.57 to 6.1 m) beneath the city without hitting water, which impedes underground construction. For this reason there is no subway system in Miami.

Most of the western fringes of the city extend into the Everglades

Everglades

The Everglades are a tropics wetland located in the southern portion of the U.S. state of Florida, comprising the southern half of a large Drainage basin....
, a subtropical marsh

Marsh

In geography, a marsh, or morass, is a type of wetland which is subject to frequent or continuous flood . Typically the water is shallow and features Poaceaees, Juncaceaees, Phragmites, typhas, Cyperaless, and other herbaceous plants....
land located in the southern portion of the U.S. state of Florida

Florida

Florida is a U.S. state located in the Southeastern United States of the United States, bordering Alabama to the northwest and Georgia to the northeast....
. This causes occasional problems with local wildlife such as alligators

American Alligator

The American Alligator, Alligator mississippiensis, is one of the two living species of Alligator, a genus within the family Alligatoridae....
venturing into Miami communities and major highways.

In terms of land area, Miami is one of the smallest major cities in the United States. According to the US Census Bureau

United States Census Bureau

The United States Census Bureau is the government agency that is responsible for the United States Census. It also gathers other national demographic and economic data....
, the city encompasses a total area of 55.27 mi² (143.15 km²). Of that area, 35.67 mi² (92.68 km²) is land and 19.59 mi² (50.73 km²) is water. That means Miami comprises over 400,000 people in a mere , making it one of the most densely populated cities in the United States, along with New York City, San Francisco, and Chicago

Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the U.S. state of Illinois and the Midwestern United States, as well as the List of United States cities by population city in the United States with more than 2.8 million residents....
among others. Miami is located at .

Climate

Miami has a true tropical climate

Tropical climate

A tropical climate is a kind of climate typical in the tropics. Wladimir K?ppen's widely-recognized K?ppen climate classification defines it as a non-arid climate in which all twelve months have mean temperatures above ....
, specifically tropical monsoon (Köppen climate classification

Köppen climate classification

The K?ppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classifications. It was developed by Wladimir K?ppen, a Russian climatologist, around 1900 ....
Am), with hot & humid summers and warm & mostly dry winters. The city does experience cold fronts from late October through March. However, the average monthly temperature for any month has never been recorded as being under 64.4 °F (January averages 67 °F). Most of the year is warm and humid, and the summers are almost identical to the climate of the Caribbean tropics. In addition, the city gets most of its rain in the summer (wet season) and is mostly dry and mild in winter (dry season). The wet season lasts from May to October, when it gives way to the dry season, which features mild temperatures with some invasions of cool air, which is when the little winter rainfall occurs — with the passing of a front. The hurricane season largely coincides with the wet season.

In addition to its sea-level elevation

Elevation

The elevation of a geographic location is its height above a fixed reference point, often the above mean sea level. Elevation, or geometric height, is mainly used when referring to points on the Earth's surface, while altitude or geopotential height is used for points above the surface, such as an aircraft in flight or a s...
, coastal location and position just above the Tropic of Cancer

Tropic of Cancer

The Tropic of Cancer, or Northern tropic, is one of five major degree measures or major circle of latitude that mark maps of the Earth. It is the northernmost latitude at which the Sun can appear directly overhead at noon....
, the area owes its warm, humid climate to the Gulf Stream

Gulf Stream

The Gulf Stream, together with its northern extension towards Europe, the North Atlantic Current, is a powerful, warm, and swift Atlantic Ocean ocean current that originates in the Gulf of Mexico, exits through the Straits of Florida, and follows the eastern coastlines of the United States and Newfoundland and Labrador before crossing the At...
, which moderates climate year-round. A typical summer day does not have temperatures below 75 °F (24 °C). Temperatures in the high 80s to low 90s (30-35 °C) accompanied by high humidity are often relieved by afternoon thunderstorm

Thunderstorm

File:FoggDam-NT.jpgA thunderstorm, also known as an electrical storm or a lightning storm, is a form of weather characterized by the presence of lightning and its effect: thunder....
s or a sea breeze

Sea breeze

A sea-breeze is a wind from the sea that develops over land near coasts. It is formed by increasing temperature differences between the land and water which create a pressure minimum over the land due to its relative warmth and forces higher pressure, cooler air from the sea to move inland....
that develops off the Atlantic Ocean, which then allow lower temperatures, although conditions still remain very muggy. During winter, humidity is significantly lower, allowing for cooler weather to develop. Average minimum temperatures during that time are around 60 °F (15 °C), rarely dipping below 40 °F (4 °C), and the equivalent maxima usually range between 70 and 77 °F (19-24 °C).

Miami has never recorded a triple-digit temperature

Temperature

In physics, temperature is a physical property of a Physical system that underlies the common notions of hot and cold; something that feels hotter generally has the greater temperature....
ever recorded in the city of Miami was 30 °F (-1 °C) on several occasions. Miami has only once recorded snowfall, on January 20, 1977. Weather conditions for the area around Miami were recorded sporadically from 1839 until 1900, with many years-long gaps. A cooperative temperature and rainfall recording site was established in what is now Downtown in December, 1900. An official Weather Bureau Office

National Weather Service

The National Weather Service , once known as the Weather Bureau, is one of the six scientific agencies that make up the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the United States Federal government of the United States....
was opened in Miami in June, 1911.

Miami receives abundant rainfall, one of the highest among major U.S. cities. Most of this rainfall occurs from mid-May through early October. It receives annual rainfall of 58.6 inches (1488 mm), whereas nearby Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Fort Lauderdale, known as the "Venice of America" due to its expansive and intricate canal system, is a city in Broward County, Florida, United States....
and Miami Beach receive 63.8 in (1621 mm) and 48.3 in (1227 mm), respectively, which demonstrates the high local variability in rainfall rates. Hurricane season

Tropical cyclone

A tropical cyclone is a storm characterized by a large low pressure system center and numerous thunderstorms that produce strong winds and flooding rain....
officially runs from June 1 through November 30, although hurricanes can develop beyond those dates. The most likely time for Miami to be hit is during the peak of the Cape Verde

Cape Verde-type hurricane

A Cape Verde-type hurricane is an Atlantic hurricane that develops near the Cape Verde islands, off the west coast of Africa. The average hurricane season has about two Cape Verde-type hurricanes, which are usually the most intense storms of the season because they often have plenty of warm open ocean over which to develop before encounterin...
season which is mid-August through the end of September. Due to its location between two major bodies of water known for tropical activity, Miami is also statistically the most likely major city in the world to be struck by a hurricane, trailed closely by Nassau, Bahamas

Nassau, Bahamas

Nassau is the Capital , largest city, and commercial centre of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas. The city has a population of 260,000 , nearly 80 percent of the entire population of The Bahamas ....
, and Havana

Havana

Havana is the capital city, major port, and leading commercial centre of Cuba. The city is one of the 14 Provinces of Cuba. The city/province has 2.1 million inhabitants, and the urban area over 3.5 million, making Havana the largest city in both Cuba and the Caribbean....
, Cuba

Cuba

The Republic of Cuba is a country in the Caribbean. It consists of the island of Cuba , the island of Isla de la Juventud, and several adjacent small islands....
. Despite this, the city has been fortunate in not having a direct hit by a hurricane since Hurricane Cleo

Hurricane Cleo

Hurricane Cleo was the third named storm, first hurricane, and first major hurricane of the 1964 Atlantic hurricane season. Cleo was one of the longest-lived storms of the season....
in 1964. However, many other hurricanes have affected the city, including Betsy

Hurricane Betsy

Hurricane Betsy was a powerful hurricane of the 1965 Atlantic hurricane season which caused enormous damage in the Bahamas, Florida, and Louisiana....
in 1965, Andrew

Hurricane Andrew

Hurricane Irene (1999)

Hurricane Irene was a tropical cyclone that produced somewhat heavy damage across southern Florida during the 1999 Atlantic hurricane season. The ninth tropical storm and the sixth hurricane of the season, Irene developed in the western Caribbean Sea on October 13 from a tropical wave....
in 1999, and Hurricanes Katrina

Hurricane Katrina

Hurricane Katrina of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season was the costliest Atlantic hurricane, as well as one of the five deadliest, in the history of the United States....
and Wilma

Hurricane Wilma

Hurricane Wilma was the most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded in the Atlantic basin. Wilma was the twenty-second tropical cyclone , thirteenth tropical cyclone, sixth major hurricane, and fourth Saffir-Simpson Scale hurricane of the record-breaking 2005 Atlantic hurricane season ...
in 2005. In addition, a tropical depression in October 2000 passed over the city, causing record rainfall and flooding. Locally, the storm is credited as the No Name Storm of 2000

Tropical Storm Leslie (2000)

Tropical Storm Leslie was the costliest tropical cyclone of the 2000 Atlantic hurricane season. The twelfth named storm of the season, Leslie formed out of a trough of low pressure on October 4 to the east of Florida....
, though the depression went on to become Tropical Storm Leslie upon entering the Atlantic Ocean. Miami has been identified as one of three cities in the United States

United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
most vulnerable to hurricanes, mainly due to its location and it being surrounded by ocean and low-lying coastal plain

Coastal plain

A coastal plain is an area of flat, low-lying land adjacent to a seacoast and separated from the interior by other features. One of the world's longest coastal plains is located in western South America....
s, the other two cities being New Orleans and New York City

New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
.

Surrounding areas

Miami Springs
Miami Springs, Florida

Miami Springs is a city located in Miami-Dade County, Florida, Florida. The city was founded by Glenn Curtiss, "The Father of Naval Aviation", and James Bright, during the famous "land boom" of the 1920s and was originally named Country Club Estates....
, Hialeah
Hialeah, Florida

Hialeah is a city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, Florida, United States. As of the United States Census 2000, the city population was 226,419. As of 2006, the population estimate by the U.S....
, Brownsville
Brownsville, Florida

Brownsville is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Miami-Dade County, Florida, Florida, United States. As of the 2000 census, the population was 14,393....
, Gladeview
Gladeview, Florida

Gladeview is a census-designated place in Miami-Dade County, Florida, Florida, United States. The population was 14,468 at the 2000 census. Gladeview is also a sub division in Miami's Liberty city neighborhood....
, West Little River
West Little River, Florida

West Little River is a census-designated place in Miami-Dade County, Florida, Florida, United States. The population was 32,498 at the 2000 census....
, El Portal
El Portal, Florida

El Portal is a village in Miami-Dade County, Florida, Florida, USA. The village name is derived from the Spanish phrase for "the gate," after two wooden gates that once stood as a gateway to the village....
, Miami Shores
Miami Shores, Florida

Miami Shores is a village in Miami-Dade County, Florida, Florida, United States. The population was 10,380 at the 2000 census. As of 2005, the population recorded by the U.S....
, Unincorporated Miami-Dade County
North Bay Village
North Bay Village, Florida

North Bay Village is a city located in Miami-Dade County, Florida. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 6,733. As of 2004, the population recorded by the U.S....
, Miami Beach
Miami Beach, Florida

Miami Beach is a city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, Florida, United States. The city was incorporated on 26 March, 1915.Miami Beach has been one of America's pre-eminent beach resorts for almost a century....
Fisher Island
Fisher Island, Florida

Fisher Island is a census-designated place located on an artificial island of the same name on unincorporated land in Miami-Dade County, Florida....
, Key Biscayne
Key Biscayne

Key Biscayne is an island located in Miami-Dade County, Florida, Florida, United States, between the Atlantic Ocean and Biscayne Bay. It is the southernmost of the Bar along the Atlantic Ocean coast of Florida, and lies south of Miami Beach, Florida and southeast of Miami, Florida....
Coral Gables
Coral Gables, Florida

Coral Gables is a city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, Florida, southwest of Miami, Florida, in the United States. The city is best known globally as the home of the University of Miami....
, Unincorporated Miami-Dade County, West Miami
West Miami, Florida

West Miami is a city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, Florida, United States. The population was 5,863 at the 2000 United States Census....
, Coral Terrace
Coral Terrace, Florida

Coral Terrace is an unincorporated suburban community and census-designated place in Miami-Dade County, Florida, Florida, United States. The population was 24,380 at the 2000 census....
Coral Gables, Unincorporated Miami-Dade County, West Miami, Coral Terrace, Westchester
Westchester, Florida

Westchester is a census-designated place in suburban Miami-Dade County, Florida, Florida, United States. The population was 30,271 at the 2000 census....
Coral Gables, Fountainbleau
Fountainbleau, Florida

Fountainbleau is a census-designated place in Miami-Dade County, Florida, Florida, United States. The population was 59,549 at the United States Census 2000....
, Unincorporated Miami-Dade County, Hialeah, Brownsville, Gladeview, West Little River, El Portal
Unincorporated Miami-Dade County, Miami Springs, Miami Lakes, Hialeah, Brownsville, Gladeview, West Little River, El Portal, Miami Shores

Neighborhoods

Miami is partitioned into many different sections, roughly into North, South, West and Downtown. The heart of the city is Downtown Miami

Downtown Miami

Downtown Miami is the central business district of South Florida, Miami-Dade County and Miami, Florida, Florida. Brickell Avenue/Biscayne Boulevard is the main north-south road in downtown, and Flagler Street is the main east-west road in the Central Business District....
and is technically on the eastern side of the city. This area includes Brickell

Brickell

Virginia Key

Virginia Key in Miami-Dade County, Florida, USA, is an island lying in Biscayne Bay between Key Biscayne and Miami, Florida. It is connected to the mainland at Miami by the Rickenbacker Causeway toll road and is the site of a large sewage treatment plant and a former landfill for the City of Miami....
, Watson Island

Watson Island

Watson Island may refer to:* Watson Island, Queensland, Australia* Watson Island, Miami, Florida, United States* Watson's Island, County Down, is a townland in County Down, Northern Ireland...
, and the Port of Miami. Downtown is South Florida's central business district, and home of many major bank

Bank

A bank is a financial institution whose primary activity is to act as a payment agent for customers and to borrow and lend money. It is an institution for receiving, keeping, and lending money....
s, financial

FINANCIAL

FINANCIAL is the weekly English language-language newspaper with offices in Tbilisi, Georgia and Kiev, Ukraine. Published by Intelligence Group LLC, FINANCIAL is focused on opinion leaders and top business decision-makers; It's about world?s largest companies, investing, careers, and small business....
headquarters, cultural and tourist attraction

Tourist attraction

A tourist attraction is a place of interest where tourists visit, typically for its inherent or exhibited cultural value, historical significance, natural or built beauty, or amusement opportunities....
s, and high-rise

High-rise

A high-rise is a tall building or structure. Normally, the function of the building is added, for example high-rise apartment building or high-rise office building....
residential towers.

The southern side of Miami includes Coral Way

Coral Way

Coral Way is a primarily east-west street that begins in downtown Miami, Florida.The eastern terminus is at Brickell Avenue in the downtown Miami Financial District....
and Coconut Grove. Coral Way is a historic residential neighborhood built in 1922 connecting Downtown with Coral Gables, and is home to many old homes and tree-lined streets. Coconut Grove was established in 1825 and is the location of Miami's City Hall in Dinner Key, the Coconut Grove Playhouse

Coconut Grove Playhouse

The Coconut Grove Playhouse is a legitimate theater in Miami, Florida, United States.Constructed as a movie house in 1926, the historic Playhouse includes two stages, the 1700-seat proscenium Mainstage Theater and the intimate 100-seat Encore Room Theater....
, CocoWalk

CocoWalk

CocoWalk, is an open-air shopping mall in Coconut Grove, Miami, Florida neighborhood of Miami, Florida, United States. The mall houses 38 shops, including a movie theatre, many restaurants, upscale shopping and street carts....
, many nightclub

Nightclub

A nightclub is a Alcoholic beverage, Dance and entertainment Music venue which does its primary business after dark. People who frequent nightclubs are known as clubbers....
s, bar

Bar

Bar may refer to:*The Aramaic word for "Son" .* A stick, pole, or handrail made of structural steel** Grab bar** Rebar* An ingot or gold bar...
s, restaurant

Restaurant

A restaurant prepares and serves food and drink to customers. Meals are generally served and eaten on premises, but many restaurants also offer take-out and Delivery ....
s and bohemian

Bohemianism

The term bohemian, of French origin, was first used in the English language in the nineteenth century to describe the untraditional lifestyles of marginalized and impoverished artists, writers, musicians, and actors in major European cities....
shops, and as such, is very popular with local college students. It is a historic neighborhood with many parks and gardens such as Villa Vizcaya

Villa Vizcaya

Vizcaya is an estate or villa in a North Italian sixteenth-century style on Biscayne Bay in Miami, Florida, designed for James Deering as a winter residence....
, The Kampong

The Kampong

The Kampong is an 11-acre tropical garden in Coconut Grove, Florida, an area of the city of Miami, Florida, United States. It is one of the five gardens of the non-profit National Tropical Botanical Garden ....
, The Barnacle Historic State Park

The Barnacle Historic State Park

The Barnacle Historic State Park is a Florida State Parks located on Biscayne Bay, at 3485 Main Highway, Coconut Grove, Miami, Florida neighborhood of Miami, Florida....
, and home of the Coconut Grove Convention Center, many of the country's most prestigious private schools, and numerous historic homes and estates.

The western side of Miami includes Little Havana

Little Havana

Little Havana is a Neighborhoods of Miami and former census-designated place in the Miami, Florida, with many Cuban Immigration to the United States residents....
, West Flagler, and Flagami, and is home to many of the city's traditionally immigrant neighborhoods. Although at one time a mostly Jewish neighborhood, today western Miami is home to immigrants from mostly Central America

Central America

Central America is a central geography region of the Americas. It is the southernmost, isthmus portion of the North American continent, which connects with South America on the southeast....
and Cuba

Cuba

The Republic of Cuba is a country in the Caribbean. It consists of the island of Cuba , the island of Isla de la Juventud, and several adjacent small islands....
, while the west central neighborhood of Allapattah

Allapattah, Florida

Allapattah is a neighborhoods of Miami partly in the Miami, Florida, Florida, and partly in an adjacent unincorporated area of Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States....
is a multicultural community of many ethnicities.

The northern side of Miami includes Midtown

Midtown Miami

Hispanic

Hispanic is a term that historically denoted relation to the ancient Hispania . During the Modern Era, it took on a more limited meaning relating to the contemporary nation of Spain....
s, bohemian

Bohemianism

White people

White people is a term which is usually used to refer to Human characterized, at least in part, by the light Human skin color. It often refers narrowly to people claiming ancestry exclusively from Europe....
. Edgewater

Edgewater, Miami, Florida

Edgewater is a subdivision of the Midtown Miami neighborhood in the Miami, Florida north of Downtown Miami. It is roughly divided by NW/NE 20th Street to the south, Interstate 195 to the north, U.S....
, and Wynwood, are neighborhoods of Midtown and are made up mostly of high-rise residential towers and are home to the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts

Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts

Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, commonly called The Arsht Center, is Miami's largest performing arts center and is located on Biscayne Boulevard in Downtown Miami Miami, Florida, USA....
. The wealthier residents usually live in the northeastern part, in Midtown, the Design District

Miami Design District

The Miami Design District is a neighborhood north of Midtown Miami in Miami, Florida within the Buena Vista, Miami, Florida and southern extremity of Little Haiti neighborhoods....
, and the Upper East Side

Upper Eastside, Miami, Florida

For the part of New York City, see Upper east side of ManhattanThe Upper Eastside neighborhoods of Miami of the Miami, is north of Midtown Miami, east of Little Haiti, south of the village of Miami Shores, and sits on Biscayne Bay....
, with many sought after 1920s homes and home of the MiMo Historic District

Miami Modern Architecture

Miami Modernist Architecture or better known as MiMo, is a style of architecture from the 1950s and 1960s that originated in Miami, Florida as a resort vernacular unique to Miami and Miami Beach....
, a style of architecture originated in Miami in the 1950s. The northern side of Miami, also has notable African-American and Caribbean immigrant communities such as Little Haiti

Little Haiti

Little Haiti or La Petite Ha?ti, is a neighborhoods of Miami in the Miami, Florida, Florida, United States known as a traditional center for Haitian and Francophone culture in the city....
, Overtown (home of the Lyric Theater), and Liberty City

Liberty City (Miami)

Liberty City is a neighborhoods of Miami in Central Miami, Florida, within Miami's city limits. It is listed as "Model City" on many Miami websites, however the name is rarely, if ever, used by anyone, especially local residents and South Floridians....
.

Culture

Entertainment and performing arts

Miami is home to many entertainment venues, theaters, museums, parks and performing arts centers. The newest addition to the Miami arts scene is the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts

Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts

Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, commonly called The Arsht Center, is Miami's largest performing arts center and is located on Biscayne Boulevard in Downtown Miami Miami, Florida, USA....
, the second-largest performing arts center in the United States after the Lincoln Center in New York City, and is the home of the Florida Grand Opera

Florida Grand Opera

Florida Grand Opera , is the seventh oldest opera company in the United States, currently in its 68th season. The company was founded as the Opera Guild of Greater Miami in 1941 by Dr....
. In it, is the Ziff Ballet Opera House, the center's largest venue, the Knight Concert Hall, the Carnival Studio Theater and the Peacock Rehearsal Studio. The center attracts many large scale operas, ballets, concerts, and musicals from around the world and is Florida's grandest performing arts center. Other performing arts venues in Miami include the Gusman Center for the Performing Arts

Olympia Theater and Office Building

The Olympia Theater and Office Building is a historic theater in Miami, Florida, Florida. It is located at 174 East Flagler Street. On March 8, 1984, it was added to the United States National Register of Historic Places....
, Coconut Grove Playhouse

Coconut Grove Playhouse

New World Symphony Orchestra

The New World Symphony Orchestra is America's only full-time orchestral academy dedicated to preparing gifted graduates from distinguished music conservatories for successful careers in symphony orchestras and ensembles....
, Actor's Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre, Jackie Gleason Theatre, Manuel Artime Theater, Ring Theatre, Playground Theatre, Wertheim Performing Arts Center, the Fair Expo Center and the Bayfront Park Amphitheater

Bayfront Park

Bayfront Park is a major public, urban park in Downtown Miami Miami, Florida. The park began construction in 1924 under the design plans of Warren Henry Manning and officially opened in mid-1925....
for outdoor music events.

The city is home to numerous museums as well, many of which are in Downtown

Downtown Miami

Bass Museum

The Bass Museum is an art museum located in Miami Beach, Florida in the United States located at 2121 Park Avenue. The museum specializes in art from around the world from the Renaissance to modern art....
, Frost Art Museum

Frost Art Museum

The Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum or simply known as the Frost Art Museum is a Florida International University museum located on-campus in University Park, Florida in metropolitan Miami, Florida....
, Historical Museum of Southern Florida

Historical Museum of Southern Florida

The Historical Museum of Southern Florida is a historical museum located in Miami, Florida, USA, which gives information about the history of South Florida and the Caribbean....
, Jewish Museum of Florida

Jewish Museum of Florida

The Jewish Museum of Florida is located in two restored historic buildings that were formerly synagogues, at 301 & 311 Washington Ave., in Miami Beach, Florida....
, Lowe Art Museum

Lowe Art Museum

The Lowe Art Museum is an art museum located in Coral Gables, Florida, a Miami suburb in Miami-Dade County. The museum is run and operated by the University of Miami and opened in 1950....
, Miami Art Museum

Miami Art Museum

The Miami Art Museum is an art museum located in Downtown Miami Miami, Florida, in the United States. It was founded in 1996 as the successor to the Center for the Fine Arts....
, Miami Children's Museum

Miami Children's Museum

The Miami Children?s Museum is a non-profit educational institution located on Watson Island, Miami, Florida, in the city of Miami, Florida....
, Miami Science Museum

Miami Science Museum

The Miami Science Museum is an attraction located in the city of Miami, Florida, USA. The museum itself also contains a planetarium, Weintraub Observatory and a wildlife center....
, Museum of Contemporary Art

Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami

The Museum of Contemporary Art is a museum located in the heart of downtown North Miami, Florida. The structure was designed by the internationally acclaimed architecture firm Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects, New York, which worked in conjunction with the Miami firm of Gelabert-Navia to create the building.]...
, Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, Wolfsonian-FIU Museum and the Miami Cultural Center, home of the Main Miami Library

Miami-Dade Public Library

The Miami-Dade Public Library System is a system of library in Miami, Florida and Miami-Dade County in the United States....
. Other popular cultural destinations in the area include Jungle Island

Jungle Island

Jungle Island is an animal theme park in the city of Miami, Florida, Florida. It was originally Parrot Jungle until it moved from the village of Pinecrest, Florida to its present location on Watson Island, Miami, Florida in the city of Miami and renamed as Parrot Jungle Island, and renamed again in June 2007 to Jungle Island; the origin...
, Miami MetroZoo

Miami MetroZoo

Miami MetroZoo is the largest and oldest zoo in Florida. It is located in southern unincorporated Miami-Dade County, Florida southwest of the city of Miami, Florida and west of the village of Palmetto Bay, Florida....
, Miami Seaquarium

Miami Seaquarium

The Miami Seaquarium is an aquarium located on Virginia Key in Biscayne Bay near downtown Miami, Florida, United States.The park was founded by Fred D....
, and parks and gardens in and around the city; there are over 80 parks in Miami. The largest and most popular parks are Bayfront Park

Bayfront Park

Bicentennial Park (Miami)

Bicentennial Park is a major public, urban park in Downtown Miami Miami, Florida. The park opened in 1976 after having previously been an old yacht basin....
(located in the heart of Downtown and the location of the American Airlines Arena and Bayside Marketplace

Bayside Marketplace

Bayside Marketplace is an indoor/outdoor Festival marketplace located in downtown Miami, just south of the AmericanAirlines Arena on Biscayne Bay....
), Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden

Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden

Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden is a superb, 33 ha botanic garden, with extensive collections of rare tropical plants including Arecaceae, cycads, flowering trees and vines, located in Coral Gables, Florida, United States....
, Tropical Park, Watson Island, Morningside Park

Morningside Park

Morningside Park is a New York City public park in the Upper Manhattan of the New York City borough of Manhattan. The area occupies 110th Street to 123rd Street Streets from Morningside Avenue to Morningside Drive at the border between Harlem and Morningside Heights, Manhattan....
and Key Biscayne

Key Biscayne

Key Biscayne is an island located in Miami-Dade County, Florida, Florida, United States, between the Atlantic Ocean and Biscayne Bay. It is the southernmost of the Bar along the Atlantic Ocean coast of Florida, and lies south of Miami Beach, Florida and southeast of Miami, Florida....
.

Miami is also a major fashion center, home to models and some of the top modeling agencies in the world. Miami is also host to many fashion shows and events, including the annual Miami Fashion Week

Miami Fashion Week

Miami Fashion Week is an annual fashion week held in Miami, Florida, United States. Miami Fashion Week, not to be confused with the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, is held every year during the spring in Wynwood, Miami, Florida of Miami....
and the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Miami held in the Wynwood Art District.

Music

Miami music is varied. Cubans

Cubans

Cubans are people inhabiting or originating from Cuba. Most Cubans live in Cuba, although there is also a large Cuban diaspora, especially in the United States....
brought the conga

Conga

The conga is a tall, narrow, single-headed Cuban drum of African origin, probably derived from the Congolese Makuta drums or Sikulu drums commonly played in Mbanza Ngungu, Congo....
and rumba

Rumba (dance)

Rumba is a dance term with two quite different meanings.First, it means Cuban event of African style, organically related to the rumba genre of Afro-Cuban music....
to Miami from their homelands instantly popularizing it in American culture. Dominicans brought bachata, and merengue

Merengue

Merengue can mean one of the following:*Merengue music*Merengue *Venezuelan merengue music*An adjective referring to the Real Madrid soccer team....
, while Colombians

Colombians

Colombians may refer to:* Citizens of Colombia, a country in South America.* Ethnic Colombians** Colombian people, persons from Colombia or of Colombian ancestry...
brought vallenato

Vallenato

Vallenato, along with cumbia, is presently a popular folk music of Colombia. It primarily comes from the Caribbean Region . Vallenato literally means "born in the valley"....
. West Indians and Caribbean people

Caribbean

The Caribbean is a region consisting of the Caribbean Sea, its islands , and the surrounding coasts. The region is located southeast of the Gulf of Mexico and Northern America, east of Central America, and to the north of South America....
have brought reggae

Reggae

Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s.While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Music of Jamaica, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady....
, soca

Soca music

Soca is a form of dance music that originated in Trinidad and Tobago from calypso music. It originally combined the melodic lilting sound of calypso with insistent percussion and local chutney music....
, kompa

Kompa

Compas is a musical genre which is native to Haiti. It is also known as kompa, kompas, kompass, compas direct, or konpa direct. This style of music is closely associated with Haiti for many people, and it is often featured at Haitian festivals and events; worldwide, several festivals annually feature comp?s music and other aspects of Haitian...
, zouk

Zouk

Zouk is a style of rhythmic music originating from the islands of Guadeloupe, Martinique, Haiti, Dominica . Zouk means "party" or "festival" in the local creole language of French with English influences....
, calypso

Calypso music

Calypso is a style of Afro-Caribbean music which originated in Trinidad and Tobago in the beginning of the 20th century....
, and steel pan to the area as well.

In the early 1970s, the Miami disco

Disco

Disco is a genre of dance music that originated in and was initially popular among African American, gay and Hispanic and Latino Americans communities in the United States in the late 1960s....
sound came to life with TK Records

TK Records

TK Records was one of the record labels started by Henry Stone. It distributed disco stars KC and the Sunshine Band until 1981.TK Records is closely associated with the early rise of disco music, being the label on which the first disco song to become a #1 hit on the pop music charts was released, "Rock Your Baby" by George McCrae in 1974....
, featuring the music of KC and the Sunshine Band

KC and the Sunshine Band

KC and the Sunshine Band is an United States musical group. Founded in 1973, their style has included funk, rhythm and blues, and disco. Their most well known songs include the disco hits "That's the Way ", " Shake Your Booty", "I'm Your Boogie Man", "Keep It Comin' Love", "Get Down Tonight", "Give It Up", and "Please Don't Go"....
, with such hits as "Get Down Tonight", "(Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty" and "That's the Way (I Like It)"; and the Latin-American disco group, Foxy (band)

Foxy (band)

Foxy is a Latin Dance music/disco group formed in 1976 in Miami, Florida, Florida.The group consisted of Ish "Angel" Ledesma , Richard "Richie" Puente , Charlie Murciano , Arnold Paseiro and Joe Galdo ....
, with their hit singles "Get Off" and "Hot Number". Miami-area natives George McCrae

George McCrae

George McCrae is a soul music and disco singing, most famous for his 1974 hit record "Rock Your Baby", released on the independent record label, TK Records record label, based in Hialeah, Florida....
and Teri DeSario

Teri DeSario

Teri DeSario is a singer/songwriter from Miami, Florida.DeSario worked within several music genre out of high school. She was vocalist, played recorder and harp from 1970 - 1977 with a Medieval and Renaissance music group, the Early Music Consort, headed by scholar and Pro Musica member Arnold Grayson....
were also popular music artists during the 1970s disco era. Miami-influenced, Gloria Estefan

Gloria Estefan

Gloria Estefan is a Grammy Award-winning American singer and songwriter. She is in the top 100 of best selling music artists with over 90 million albums sold worldwide, with 26.5 million in the United States alone....
and the Miami Sound Machine, hit the popular music scene with their Cuban-oriented sound and had huge hits in the 1980s with "Conga" and "Bad Boys".

Miami is also considered a "hot spot" for dance music

Dance music

Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dance. It can be either a whole musical piece or part of a larger musical arrangement....
, Freestyle

Freestyle music

Freestyle or Latin Freestyle, also called Latin Hip Hop in its early years, is a form of electronic music. Performers such as Sa-Fire, Information Society , Noel , Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam, TKA, George Lamond, and Expos? are notable performers of the genre....
, a style of dance music popular in the 80's and 90's heavily influenced by Electro

Electro (music)

Electro is a genre of electronic music directly influenced by the use of TR-808 and funk records. Records in the genre typically have electronic sounds and some vocals are delivered in a deadpan, mechanical manner, often through a Vocoder#Musical applications or other electronic distortion....
, hip-hop, and disco. Many popular Freestyle acts such as Pretty Tony

Pretty Tony

Tony "Pretty Tony" Butler was an influential 1980s electro music and freestyle music artist based out of Miami, Florida.He recorded a string of popular club tracks on Jam Packed and Sherman Nealy's Music Specialist label in the mid-'80s....
, Debbie Deb

Debbie Deb

Debbie Deb is an United States dance pop singer, best known for 1980s freestyle dance classics such as "Lookout Weekend" and "When I Hear Music"....
, Stevie B

Stevie B

Stevie B is an African-United States singer, songwriter, and record producer who was highly influential in the Latin freestyle and High-Energy, mostly from Miami dance music scene of the late 1980s....
, and Exposé

Exposé (band)

Expos? is an United States vocal group. Primarily consisting of lead vocalists Ann Curless, Jeanette Jurado, and Gioia Bruno, the group was popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and just like label mate Taylor Dayne, its first seven singles reached the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100, including the 1988 #1 hit "Seasons Change." The...
, originated in Miami. Indie

Indie (music)

In popular music, independent music, often abbreviated as indie, is a term used to describe independence from major commercial record labels and an autonomous, DIY ethic to recording and publishing....
/folk

Folk

English Folk "people" is derived from a Germanic languages noun *fulka meaning "people" or "army" . The English word folk has cognates in most of the other Germanic languages....
acts Cat Power

Cat Power

Cat Power is the stage name of United States singer/songwriter Charlyn "Chan" Marshall . She is known for her Minimalist music style, sparse guitar and piano playing, and breathy vocals....
and Iron & Wine

Iron & Wine

Iron & Wine is the stage and recording name of folk rock singer-songwriter, Samuel Beam. He has released three studio albums, several extended plays and Single , as well as a few Digital download releases, which include a Iron & Wine Live Bonnaroo ....
are based in the city, while alternative hip hop

Alternative hip hop

Alternative hip hop is a form of hip hop music that is defined in greatly varying ways. Allmusic defines it as follows:Alternative Rap refers to Hip hop music groups that refuse to conform to any of the traditional stereotypes of rap, such as gangsta rap, Miami bass, hardcore hip hop, and party rap....
artist Sage Francis

Sage Francis

Paul "Sage" Francis is a Hip hop music artist based in Providence, Rhode Island, Rhode Island. Sage Francis' style blends a varying tone and delivery with subject matter that focuses on intricate sequences of widely varying imagery, metaphors, the occasional pun, absurdism, word play often in the form of phonetic mix-ups and rhetorical excu...
, electro artist Uffie

Uffie

Anna-Catherine Hartley, better known by her stage name Uffie, is an American-born, Paris-based rapper currently signed by France music label Ed Banger Records....
, and the electroclash

Electroclash

Electroclash, sometimes alternatively spelled as Elektroklash, is a style of music that fuses new wave music and electronic dance music. Larry Tee coined the term, but DJ Hell from Gigolo Records is also often regarded as one of the pioneers of the genre....
duo Avenue D

Avenue D (band)

Avenue D was a female electroclash duo from Miami, Florida, based out of New York City and consisting of Debbie and Daphne D. The band are proteges of Larry Tee, and perform for his parties....
were born in Miami, but musically based elsewhere. Also, punk

Punk rock

Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed the perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock....
band Against All Authority

Against All Authority

Against All Authority is an American rock music rock band, formed in Florida in 1992. Playing in the ska punk style, their business practice follows a stringent DIY ethic....
is from Miami, and rock

Rock music

Rock music is a loosely defined genre of popular music that entered the mainstream in the mid 1950's. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rhythm and blues, country music and other influences....
/metal bands Nonpoint

Nonpoint

Nonpoint is a four-piece nu metal group originating from Fort Lauderdale, Florida....
and Marilyn Manson

Marilyn Manson (band)

Marilyn Manson is an American rock music band founded in the city of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Advocates of nonconformity and iconoclasm, often utilizing controversial imagery and lyrical content, it is difficult to categorize the band, however, as each album thus far has had a distinct and individual sound, and the band and frontman endeavor...
each formed in neighboring Fort Lauderdale. Popular Cuban American female recording artist, Ana Cristina

Ana Cristina

Ana Cristina ?lvarez , known professionally as Ana Cristina, is an American pop singer.Ana was born in Miami to Rene and Teresa ?lvarez....
, was born in Miami in 1985, and became the first Hispanic person in history to perform the "Star Spangled Banner" at a presidential inauguration.

Miami is also home to a vibrant techno and dance scene and hosts the Winter Music Conference

Winter Music Conference

The Winter Music Conference is a weeklong electronic music event, held every March since the mid-1980s in South Florida. It is aimed at professionals such as artists, DJs, record label representatives, producers, promoters, radio and the media....
, the largest dance event in the world, Ultra Music Festival

Ultra Music Festival

Ultra Music Festival is an outdoor electronic music event held annually in Miami, Florida during the Winter Music Conference which occurs annually during the month of March....
and many electronica

Electronica

Electronica includes a wide range of contemporary electronic music designed for a wide range of uses, including foreground listening, some forms of dancing, and background music for other activities; however, unlike electronic dance music, it is not specifically made for dancing....
music-themed celebrations and festivals. Along with neighboring Miami Beach

Miami Beach, Florida

Miami Beach is a city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, Florida, United States. The city was incorporated on 26 March, 1915.Miami Beach has been one of America's pre-eminent beach resorts for almost a century....
, Miami is home to some famous nightclubs, such as Space, Mansion, Parkwest, Ink, Cameo, and Opium Garden. The city is known to be part of clubland

Clubland

The term Clubland can refer to several different things:...
, along with places such as Mykonos

Mykonos

Mykonos is a Greek island and a mass tourist destination, renowned for its cosmopolitan character and its intense nightlife. The island is part of the Cyclades, lying between Tinos, Siros, Paros and Naxos, Greece....
, Ibiza

Ibiza

Ibiza is an island and town located in the Mediterranean Sea about 80 km off the coast of Spain. It is the third largest of the Balearic Islands autonomous community ....
and Ayia Napa

Ayia Napa

Ayia Napa is a resort at the far eastern end of the south coast of the island of Cyprus, famous for its sandy beaches. In recent years, apart from being a family holiday destination, it has become a 'party capital' similar to Ibiza, Rimini and Mykonos....
.

There are also several rap

Hip hop music

Hip hop music is a music genre typically consisting of a rhythmic vocal style called rapping which is accompanied with backing beats. Hip hop music is part of hip hop culture, which began in the Bronx, in New York City in the 1970s, predominantly among African Americans and Latino Americans....
and hip hop

Hip hop

Hip hop is a cultural movement built largely around the music genre of hip hop music, which developed in New York City during the 1970s primarily among African Americans and Latino Americans....
artists out of Miami. They include DJ Khaled

DJ Khaled

Khaled Khaled , better known by his stage name DJ Khaled, is a Palestinian-American DJ, Record producer and radio personality for the Miami-based urban music radio station WEDR....
, Rick Ross

Rick Ross (rapper)

William Leonard Roberts II , better known by his stage name Rick Ross , is an United States rapper. His stage name is derived from the name of drug trafficker Ricky Ross , to whom he has no connection....
, Trick Daddy

Trick Daddy

Maurice Young, better known as Trick Daddy, is an American rapper. Originally billed as Trick Daddy Dollars, and sometimes known as T-Double-D, he has been popular for making club hits such as "Shut Up" and "Let's Go"....
, Ace Hood

Ace Hood

Antoine McColister, better known by his stage name Ace Hood, is an United States rap artist. He is signed to DJ Khaled's label, We The Best Music....
, Trina

Trina

Katrina Laverne Taylor, better known by her stage name Trina, is an United States rapper from Miami, Florida....
, and Pitbull

Pitbull (rapper)

Armando Christian P?rez , better known by his stage name Pitbull or his other nicknames, Lil' Chico or Mr. 305, is a Cuban rapper. His first recorded performance was from the Lil Jon album Kings of Crunk in 2002, after which he released his debut album in 2004 titled M.I.A.M.I. under TVT Records....
.

Media

Miami is served by numerous newspapers, the major English-language newspaper is The Miami Herald
The Miami Herald

The Miami Herald is a daily newspaper owned by The McClatchy Company headquartered in Downtown Miami Miami, Florida, Florida. It primarily serves Miami-Dade County, Florida, Broward County, Florida and Monroe County, Florida counties in the U.S....
; El Nuevo Herald
El Nuevo Herald

El Nuevo Herald is a The McClatchy Company newspaper published daily in Spanish language in Miami, Florida, in the United States. The Heralds sister paper is The Miami Herald, also produced by the McClatchy Company....
is the major Spanish-language newspaper. Other major newspapers include Miami Today
Miami Today

Miami Today is a weekly Miami newspaper headquartered in the Brickell district of Miami, Florida, United States. The newspaper is printed weekly and specializes on business, stock market, trade, development and news regarding the immediate Brickell and Downtown Miami area....
, headquartered in Brickell

Brickell

Brickell is a neighborhoods of Miami, Florida partly within Downtown Miami Miami, Florida. It lies south of the Miami River , extending south to SE 26th Road , and is mostly mixed financial and residential north of Broadway , and mostly residential south of Broadway....
, Miami New Times
Miami New Times

The Miami New Times is a free, weekly Miami, Florida newspaper, put out every Thursday. It was established in 1987. It is part of the Village Voice Media corporation of alternative media....
, headquartered in Midtown

Midtown Miami

Midtown Miami is a neighborhood in the city of Miami, Florida north of Downtown Miami and south of the Miami Design District. It is roughly divided by NE 20th Street to the south, Interstate 195 to the north, Interstate 95 in Florida to the west and Biscayne Bay to the east....
, Miami Sun Post, South Florida Business Journal
South Florida Business Journal

South Florida Business Journal is a newspaper printed in Deerfield Beach, Florida for the Miami, Florida area, covering general business news, major events in Miami, Florida and around the world, with sections on global news and local news, business news and political news, Florida cultural life and newspaper classified ads....
, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Miami Times, and Biscayne Boulevard Times. Two additional Spanish-language newspapers, El Sentinel
El Sentinel

El Sentinel is the name of two Spanish language language newspapers in Florida, both owned by the Tribune Company of Chicago, Illinois.* El Sentinel del Sur de la Florida, a weekly based in Fort Lauderdale and serves the South Florida region...
and Diario Las Americas also serve Miami. The Miami Herald is Miami's primary newspaper with over a million readers and is headquartered in Downtown in Herald Plaza. Several other student newspapers from the local universities, such as Florida International University

Florida International University

Florida International University, commonly referred to as FIU or Florida International, is a public university research university located in Miami, Florida, Florida, in the United States, with its main campus at University Park, Florida....
's The Beacon
The Beacon

The Beacon is the student-run newspaper of Florida International University in Miami, Florida, Florida and has a circulation of 6,000. The Beacon is published thrice weekly in a Compact format during the Fall and Spring semesters and once a week on Wednesday during the Summer....
, the University of Miami

University of Miami

The University of Miami is a private, non-sectarian university founded in 1925 in the city of Coral Gables, Florida, Florida, United States, a historic suburb of Miami, Florida....
's The Miami Hurricane
The Miami Hurricane

The Miami Hurricane, founded in 1929, is the official student newspaper at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida, Florida, in the United States....
, Miami-Dade College's The Metropolis, Barry University

Barry University

Barry University is a private university Roman Catholic Church university, which was founded in 1940 in Miami Shores, Florida, a suburb northeast of Downtown Miami Miami, Florida....
's The Buccaneer, amongst others. Many neighborhoods and neighboring areas also have their own local newspapers such as the Coral Gables Tribune, Biscayne Bay Tribune, and the Palmetto Bay News.

A number of magazines circulate throughout the greater Miami area, including Miami Monthly, Southeast Florida's only city/regional; Ocean Drive, a hot-spot social scene glossy, and South Florida Business Leader.

Miami is also the headquarters and main production city of many of the world's largest television network

Television network

A television network is a distribution wiktionary:Network for television content whereby a central operation provides television program for many television stations....
s, broadcasting companies and production facilities, such as Telemundo

Telemundo

Telemundo is a Spanish language United States television network. Launched in San Juan, Puerto Rico by Angel Ramos in 1954, it is the second-largest Spanish language content producer in the world....
, TeleFutura

TeleFutura

TeleFutura is a U.S. Spanish language broadcast television network owned by Univision with headquarters in Miami, Florida....
, Mega TV

Mega TV

Mega TV was Malaysia's first subscription-based cable television service. It was incorporated on 18 October 1994 and was operated by TV3 ....
, Univision

Univision

Univision is a List of Spanish-language television channels network in the United States and Puerto Rico. It has the largest Latin American audience, largely due to repurposed telenovelas and other Mexican programs produced by Grupo Televisa....
, RCTV International and Sunbeam Television

Sunbeam Television

Sunbeam Television Corporation is a broadcasting company based in Miami, Florida, owned by Edmund N. Ansin. While the company only has three stations in its family, these stations are usually highly rated....
.

Miami is the twelfth largest radio market and the seventeenth largest television market in the United States. Television stations serving the Miami area include: WAMI

WAMI-TV

WAMI-TV is the TeleFutura Network-owned station for the Miami, Florida / Fort Lauderdale, Florida market. This station is currently owned by Univision and transmits Spanish language programming on channel 69....
(Telefutura

TeleFutura

TeleFutura is a U.S. Spanish language broadcast television network owned by Univision with headquarters in Miami, Florida....
), WBFS (My Network TV), WSFL

WSFL-TV

WSFL-TV, channel 39, is the The CW Television Network-affiliated television station for South Florida metropolitan area that is licensed to Miami, Florida....
(The CW

The CW Television Network

The CW Television Network is a television network in the United States launched at the beginning of the 2006-07 United States network television schedule....
), WFOR

WFOR-TV

WFOR-TV, channel 4, is the CBS owned-and-operated station in Miami, Florida. WFOR shares its studio facilities with sister station WBFS-TV in Doral, Florida; west of Miami....
(CBS

CBS

CBS Broadcasting Inc. is an American radio network and television network. The name is derived from the initials of Columbia Broadcasting System, its former legal name....
), WHFT (TBN

Trinity Broadcasting Network

The Trinity Broadcasting Network is the United States' largest Religious broadcasting#Television Headquartered in Costa Mesa, California, it also has studios in Irving, Texas; Hendersonville, Tennessee; Atlanta, Georgia; Miami, Florida; Tulsa, Oklahoma and Orlando, Florida....
), WLTV

WLTV

WLTV is a Univision owned and operated station serving Spanish language-speaking viewers in South Florida. The station is located in Doral, Florida, where Univision's production facilities are also located....
(Univision

Univision

WPLG

WPLG is an American Broadcasting Company network affiliate serving the entire Miami, Florida area. WPLG is owned and operated by Post-Newsweek Stations, a subsidiary of the Washington Post Company....
(ABC), WPXM

WPXM

WPXM TV 35, is the local affiliate for the Ion Television network in the South Florida area . Formerly known as Pax TV and i, Ion is the smallest of the seven national commercial TV networks in the United States....
(ION), WSCV

WSCV

WSCV Telemundo 51 is the Telemundo O&O that serves the Miami - Fort Lauderdale area and licensed to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. The transmitter is located in Miramar, Florida....
(Telemundo

Telemundo

WSVN

WSVN, channel 7, is the Fox Broadcasting Company-affiliated television station for South Florida, licensed to Miami, Florida. The station is owned by Sunbeam Television, the owner of Boston stations WHDH-TV and WLVI-TV ....
(FOX

Fox Broadcasting Company

The Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox and stylized as FOX, is an United States television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation....
), WTVJ

WTVJ

WTVJ, channel 6, is the NBC owned-and-operated station television station for South Florida that is licensed to Miami, Florida. Its Analog transmission transmitter is located in Redland, Florida....
(NBC), WPBT

WPBT

WPBT is the callsign of a Public Broadcasting System member public broadcasting television station in Miami, Florida, serving the South Florida region....
(PBS), and WLRN

WLRN-TV

WLRN-TV is a PBS member station broadcasting on channel 17 in Miami, Florida.WLRN-TV signed on the air as WSEC-TV in 1962 as a second educational non-profit television station, licensed to the Dade County School Board, and affiliated with National Educational Television ....
(also PBS).

Sports

Miami is home to many major professional sports teams. The Miami Dolphins

Miami Dolphins

. The Miami Dolphins are the professional American football team based in the Miami, Florida South Florida metropolitan area. They play home games at Dolphin Stadium, in the suburb of Miami Gardens, Florida....
, the NFL team, Miami Heat

Miami Heat

Florida Marlins

The Florida Marlins are a professional baseball based in Miami Gardens, Florida, United States. Established in 1993 as an expansion franchise, the Marlins are a member of the National League East of Major League Baseball's National League....
, the MLB team, and the Florida Panthers

Florida Panthers

The Florida Panthers are a professional ice hockey team based in Sunrise, Florida, a suburb of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. They are members of the Southeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League ....
, Miami's NHL team. As well as having all four major professional teams, Miami is home to many other sports teams and activities such as Miami FC

Miami FC

Miami FC is an American professional soccer team, founded in 2006. The team is a member of the USL First Division, the second tier of the American Soccer Pyramid....
, Miami Tropics

Miami Tropics

The Miami Tropics are a team in the Premier Basketball League that began to play in 2007 in Miami, Florida. The team is owned by the Imperiali Organization, which also owns the Palm Beach Imperials....
, for soccer the Sony Ericsson Open

Miami Masters

The Miami Masters is an annual tennis tournament for men and women held in Miami, Florida. The event's current sponsored name is the Sony Ericsson Open....
for professional tennis

Tennis

Tennis is a sport played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a strung racquet to strike a hollow rubber Tennis ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's tennis court....
, numerous greyhound racing

Greyhound racing

Greyhound racing is the sport of racing greyhounds. The dogs chase a lure on a track until they arrive at the finish line. The one that arrives first is the winner....
tracks, marinas, Jai-Alai venues, and golf

Golf

Golf is a sport in which players using many types of Golf club including wood , iron , and putter , attempt to hit golf ball into each hole on a golf course in the lowest possible number of strokes....
courses.

The Miami Heat

Miami Heat

The Miami Heat is a professional basketball team based in Miami, Florida, United States. The team is a member of the Southeast Division in the Eastern Conference of the National Basketball Association ....
is the only major professional sports team that plays its games within Miami's city limits at the American Airlines Arena. The team recently won the 2006 NBA Finals

2006 NBA Finals

The 2006 NBA Finals was the championship series of the 2005-06 NBA season. The Miami Heat won the championship in 6 games over the Dallas Mavericks, winning the final game at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas, and becoming the third team to win a championship after trailing 0–2 in the series....
, winning the series 4-2 over the Dallas Mavericks

Dallas Mavericks

The Dallas Mavericks are the professional basketball team of the National Basketball Association based in Dallas, Texas.Founded in 1980, the Dallas Mavericks have won two division titles and one conference championship....
. The Miami Dolphins

Miami Dolphins

Florida Marlins

Orange Bowl (game)

The Orange Bowl is an annual United States of America college football bowl game played in Dolphin Stadium just outside Miami, Florida, Florida....
, a member of the Bowl Championship Series

Bowl Championship Series

The Bowl Championship Series is a selection system designed to give the top two teams in the Division I#Football Bowl Subdivision an opportunity to compete in a "national championship game"....
, hosts their college football championship games at Dolphin Stadium

Dolphin Stadium

Dolphin Stadium is a American football, lacrosse, football , and baseball stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida. The stadium serves as host to the Miami Dolphins, the Florida Marlins, and the Miami Hurricanes football....
. The stadium has also hosted the Super Bowl

Super Bowl

In professional American football, the Super Bowl is the championship game of the National Football League . The game and its ancillary festivities constitute Super Bowl Sunday....
; the Miami metro area has hosted the game a total of nine times (four Super Bowls in Dolphin Stadium, including Super Bowl XLI

Super Bowl XLI

Super Bowl XLI was an American football game played on February 4, 2007, at Dolphin Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida, Florida, a suburb of Miami, Florida, to decide the National Football League champion following the 2006 NFL season....
and five at the Miami Orange Bowl

Miami Orange Bowl

The Miami Orange Bowl was a stadium in the City of Miami, west of Downtown Miami in Little Havana. Considered a landmark, it was the home stadium for the Miami Hurricanes football American football team and the temporary home of the Florida International University Golden Panthers for the 2007 football season while the FIU Stadium underwent e...
), tying New Orleans for the most games.

Miami FC, Florida's only professional soccer team, plays at Tropical Park Stadium

Tropical Park Stadium

Tropical Park Stadium is a 7,000-seat stadium located in Olympia Heights, Florida, a CDP near Miami, Florida. The stadium is located in Tropical Park and is the home field of Miami F.C....
. Miami signed world-famed soccer player Romario

Romário

Rom?rio de Souza Faria , better known simply as Romario, is a Brazilian football center forward who helped the Brazil national football team win the 1994 FIFA World Cup and is one of the most prolific strikers in the world....
in March 2006 to a one year deal. The Florida Panthers

Florida Panthers

National Hockey League

The National Hockey League is a professional ice hockey league composed of 30 teams in North America. It is considered to be the premier professional ice hockey league in the world, and one of the North American Major professional sports leagues of the United States and Canada....
team plays in neighboring Broward County, Florida at the BankAtlantic Center

BankAtlantic Center

The BankAtlantic Center is an list of indoor arenas located in Sunrise, Florida, a suburb of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, near the popular Sawgrass Mills Mall....
in the city of Sunrise

Sunrise, Florida

Sunrise is a city in Broward County, Florida, United States. Originally called "Sunrise Golf Village," the name did not sit well with the retirees whom developers wanted to attract, so a change was made to "Sunrise." As of the United States Census 2000, the city had a total population of 85,779....
. Miami is also home to Paso Fino horses, where competitions are held at Tropical Park Equestrian Center.

Miami is also the home of many college sports teams. Two largest are the Florida International University

Florida International University

FIU Golden Panthers

The FIU Golden Panthers is the name of the athletic teams of Florida International University, a public university located in Miami, Florida. The Golden Panthers compete in National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I athletics, and in the Sun Belt Conference....
whose football team

FIU Golden Panthers football

The FIU Golden Panthers is the football team that represents Florida International University in Miami, Florida. The FIU Golden Panthers are a mid-major NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision college football team led by Mario Cristobal and play at the on-campus FIU Stadium....
plays at FIU Stadium

FIU Stadium

FIU Stadium is the stadium for the FIU Golden Panthers football team, and is located in Miami, Florida. The facility opened in 1995, replacing nearby Tamiami Field, which was used for many years as a university recreation field and by local high school football teams....
and the University of Miami Hurricanes

Miami Hurricanes football

The Miami Hurricanes, sometimes referred to as '"The U", are a collegiate football program that represents the University of Miami. The team is a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference, which is a Division I Bowl Subdivision conference governed by the National Collegiate Athletic Association....
, whose football team formerly played at the Miami Orange Bowl

Miami Orange Bowl

Dolphin Stadium

Miami Floridians

Miami Floridians, later in their history known simply as The Floridians, were a professional basketball franchise in the original, now-defunct American Basketball Association....
(ABA), Miami Matadors

Miami Matadors

The Miami Matadors were an ice hockey team in the East Coast Hockey League. They played in Miami, Florida, USA at the Miami Arena for just one season before moving....
(ECHL

ECHL

The ECHL is a mid-level professional ice hockey league based in Princeton, New Jersey, with teams scattered across the United States and Canada, generally regarded as a tier below the American Hockey League....
), Miami Manatees

Miami Manatees

The Miami Manatees were a minor league ice hockey team in the World Hockey Association 2. The Manatees originally played their home games at Miami Arena; however, owner David Waronker had an out clause in the teams lease that stated that if the team's attendance average was under 1,500 after 20 of 32 homes games, the Manatees could play their...
(WHA2), Miami Gatos (NASL

North American Soccer League

North American Soccer League was a professional football league with teams in the United States of America and Canada that operated from 1968 to 1984....
), Miami Screaming Eagles (WHA

World Hockey Association

The World Hockey Association was a professional ice hockey league that operated in North America from 1972-73 WHA season to 1978-79 WHA season....
), Miami Seahawks (AAFC

All-America Football Conference

The All-America Football Conference was a professional American football league that challenged the established National Football League from 1946 in sports to 1949 in sports....
), Miami Sol

Miami Sol

The Miami Sol was a women's basketball team which joined the Women's National Basketball Association in 2000. They played their games at American Airlines Arena....
(WNBA

Women's National Basketball Association

The Women's National Basketball Association has 13 teams and is an organization governing a professional basketball league for women in the United States....
), Miami Toros

Miami Toros

The Miami Gatos were a soccer team based out of Miami, Florida that played in the North American Soccer League. The club was previously known as the Washington Darts....
(NASL

North American Soccer League

North American Soccer League was a professional football league with teams in the United States of America and Canada that operated from 1968 to 1984....
), Miami Tropics

Miami Tropics

Spring Football League

The Spring Football League was a professional American football that existed for only part of one mini-season in 2000. Founded by several ex-NFL players such as Eric Dickerson, Drew Pearson , Bo Jackson, and Tony Dorsett, the SFL planned to use the four game mini-season to test cities, fans, stadiums, the media, entertainment, and springtim...
), and the Miami Hooters

Florida Bobcats

History...
(Arena Football League

Arena Football League

The Arena Football League was founded in 1987 in sports as an American football arena football. The AFL's attendance increased dramatically over its last few years, rising to an average of 12,415 people per game in 2007, and 12,957 per game in 2008, but the increases were accompanied by greatly increased expenses and debt, leading to the can...
). The Miami Fusion

Miami Fusion

Miami Fusion F.C. was a professional association football club located in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Florida that participated in Major League Soccer from 1998 to 2001....
, a defunct Major League Soccer

Major League Soccer

Major League Soccer is the top-flight professional soccer league based in the United States, overseen by the United States Soccer Federation. The league is comprised of 15 teams, 14 in the U.S....
team played at Lockhart Stadium

Lockhart Stadium

Lockhart Stadium, located in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, is a stadium that serves as the home of the Florida Atlantic University college football team....
in nearby Broward County.

**Miami professional sports teams**
Club	Sport	League	Venue	League Championships
Miami Dolphins Miami Dolphins . The Miami Dolphins are the professional American football team based in the Miami, Florida South Florida metropolitan area. They play home games at Dolphin Stadium, in the suburb of Miami Gardens, Florida....	Football American football American football, known in the United States and Canada simply as football, is a competitive team sport known for mixing strategy with physical play....	National Football League National Football League The National Football League is the Major North American professional sports leagues American football Sports league in the United States. It is an unincorporated 501#501.28c.29.286.29 association controlled by its members....	Dolphin Stadium Dolphin Stadium Dolphin Stadium is a American football, lacrosse, football , and baseball stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida. The stadium serves as host to the Miami Dolphins, the Florida Marlins, and the Miami Hurricanes football....	Super Bowl Super Bowl In professional American football, the Super Bowl is the championship game of the National Football League . The game and its ancillary festivities constitute Super Bowl Sunday.... (2) VII Super Bowl VII Super Bowl VII was an American football game played on January 14, 1973, at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, California, to decide the National Football League champion following the 1972 NFL season.... 1972 - defeated Washington Redskins Washington Redskins The Washington Redskins are a professional American football team based in the Washington, D.C. area. The team plays at FedExField in Landover, Maryland, Maryland, which is in Prince George's County, Maryland.... , 14-7 VIII Super Bowl VIII Super Bowl VIII was an American football game played on January 13, 1974 at Rice Stadium in Houston, Texas to decide the National Football League champion following the 1973 NFL season.... 1973 - defeated Minnesota Vikings Minnesota Vikings The Minnesota Vikings are a professional American football team based out of Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Vikings compete in the NFC North of the National Football Conference in the National Football League .... , 24-7
Florida Panthers Florida Panthers The Florida Panthers are a professional ice hockey team based in Sunrise, Florida, a suburb of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. They are members of the Southeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League ....	Hockey Ice hockey Ice hockey, often referred to simply as hockey, is a team sport played on ice. It is a fast paced and physical sport. Ice hockey is most popular in areas that are sufficiently cold for natural reliable seasonal ice cover such as Canada, the northern United States, Scandinavia and Russia, though with the advent of indoor artificial ice r...	National Hockey League National Hockey League The National Hockey League is a professional ice hockey league composed of 30 teams in North America. It is considered to be the premier professional ice hockey league in the world, and one of the North American Major professional sports leagues of the United States and Canada....	BankAtlantic Center BankAtlantic Center The BankAtlantic Center is an list of indoor arenas located in Sunrise, Florida, a suburb of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, near the popular Sawgrass Mills Mall....	none
Miami Heat Miami Heat The Miami Heat is a professional basketball team based in Miami, Florida, United States. The team is a member of the Southeast Division in the Eastern Conference of the National Basketball Association ....	Basketball Basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five active players each try to score points against one another by propelling a basketball through a 10 feet high hoop under organized rules....	National Basketball Association National Basketball Association The National Basketball Association is North America's premier professional men's basketball league, composed of thirty teams: twenty-nine in the United States and one in Canada....	American Airlines Arena	NBA Finals NBA Finals The NBA Finals is the championship series of the National Basketball Association and the conclusion of the sport's NBA Playoffs each June. The series was named the NBA World Championship Series until 1986.... (1) 2006 2005 NBA Finals The 2005 NBA Finals was the championship round of the 2004-05 NBA season. The San Antonio Spurs of the Western Conference took on the Detroit Pistons of the Eastern Conference for the title, with the Spurs holding home team.... - defeated Dallas Mavericks Dallas Mavericks The Dallas Mavericks are the professional basketball team of the National Basketball Association based in Dallas, Texas.Founded in 1980, the Dallas Mavericks have won two division titles and one conference championship.... , series 4-2
Florida Marlins Florida Marlins The Florida Marlins are a professional baseball based in Miami Gardens, Florida, United States. Established in 1993 as an expansion franchise, the Marlins are a member of the National League East of Major League Baseball's National League....	Baseball Baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two team sport of nine players each. The goal of baseball is to score run by hitting a thrown Baseball with a baseball bat and touching a series of four markers called base arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot square, or diamond. Players on one team take turns hitting against...	Major League Baseball Major League Baseball Major League Baseball is the highest level of play in American professional baseball. Specifically, Major League Baseball refers to the organization that operates the National League and the American League, by means of a joint organizational structure that has developed gradually between them since 1903 .... ; NL National League The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs, or simply the National League , is the older of two leagues constituting Major League Baseball, and the world's oldest existent professional team sports league....	Dolphin Stadium Dolphin Stadium Dolphin Stadium is a American football, lacrosse, football , and baseball stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida. The stadium serves as host to the Miami Dolphins, the Florida Marlins, and the Miami Hurricanes football....	World Series World Series The World Series is the championship series of Major League Baseball, the culmination of the sport's playoff each October. Since the Series takes place in mid-autumn, sportswriters many years ago dubbed the event the Fall Classic, a usage reflected in the logo for the 2008 World Series; it is also sometimes known as the October Clas... (2) 1997 1997 World Series The 1997 World Series featured the Cleveland Indians, who were playing in their second World Series in three years. Their opponents were the Florida Marlins, who had set a record by reaching the Series in only their fifth season.... - defeated Cleveland Indians Cleveland Indians The Cleveland Indians are a professional baseball based in Cleveland, Ohio, Ohio. They are in the American League Central of Major League Baseball's American League.... , series 4-3 2003 2003 World Series The 2003 World Series marked the 99th MLB World Series event. The Florida Marlins defeated the New York Yankees in six games, 4–2.... - defeated New York Yankees New York Yankees The New York Yankees are a professional baseball based in the Borough of the Bronx, in New York City, New York and are a member of the American League East of Major League Baseball's American League.... , series 4-2
Miami FC Miami FC Miami FC is an American professional soccer team, founded in 2006. The team is a member of the USL First Division, the second tier of the American Soccer Pyramid....	Soccer	United Soccer League First Division USL First Division The United Soccer Leagues First Division is a professional men's football league in North America. It is the second tier of soccer in the United States and Canada American Soccer Pyramid behind Major League Soccer....	Tropical Park Stadium Tropical Park Stadium Tropical Park Stadium is a 7,000-seat stadium located in Olympia Heights, Florida, a CDP near Miami, Florida. The stadium is located in Tropical Park and is the home field of Miami F.C....	none
Miami Tropics Miami Tropics The Miami Tropics are a team in the Premier Basketball League that began to play in 2007 in Miami, Florida. The team is owned by the Imperiali Organization, which also owns the Palm Beach Imperials....	Basketball Basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five active players each try to score points against one another by propelling a basketball through a 10 feet high hoop under organized rules....	American Basketball Association	Miami Arena Miami Arena The Miami Arena was an list of indoor arenas in Miami, Florida. The building's roof was Building implosion on September 21, 2008, demolition of the rest of the structure was completed October 21, 2008....	none

**Miami college sports teams**
College	Nickname	Football	Football venue	Basketball	Basketball venue	Conference
Florida International University Florida International University Florida International University, commonly referred to as FIU or Florida International, is a public university research university located in Miami, Florida, Florida, in the United States, with its main campus at University Park, Florida....	Golden Panthers FIU Golden Panthers The FIU Golden Panthers is the name of the athletic teams of Florida International University, a public university located in Miami, Florida. The Golden Panthers compete in National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I athletics, and in the Sun Belt Conference....	FIU football FIU Golden Panthers football The FIU Golden Panthers is the football team that represents Florida International University in Miami, Florida. The FIU Golden Panthers are a mid-major NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision college football team led by Mario Cristobal and play at the on-campus FIU Stadium....	FIU Stadium FIU Stadium FIU Stadium is the stadium for the FIU Golden Panthers football team, and is located in Miami, Florida. The facility opened in 1995, replacing nearby Tamiami Field, which was used for many years as a university recreation field and by local high school football teams....	FIU basketball FIU Golden Panthers The FIU Golden Panthers is the name of the athletic teams of Florida International University, a public university located in Miami, Florida. The Golden Panthers compete in National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I athletics, and in the Sun Belt Conference....	U.S. Century Bank Arena	Sun Belt Conference Sun Belt Conference The Sun Belt Conference is a list of college athletic conferences that has been affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I since 1976 in sports....
University of Miami University of Miami The University of Miami is a private, non-sectarian university founded in 1925 in the city of Coral Gables, Florida, Florida, United States, a historic suburb of Miami, Florida....	Hurricanes Miami Hurricanes The Miami Hurricanes represent the varsity sports teams of the University of Miami. They compete in the Coastal Division of the Atlantic Coast Conference ....	Miami football Miami Hurricanes football The Miami Hurricanes, sometimes referred to as '"The U", are a collegiate football program that represents the University of Miami. The team is a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference, which is a Division I Bowl Subdivision conference governed by the National Collegiate Athletic Association....	Dolphin Stadium Dolphin Stadium Dolphin Stadium is a American football, lacrosse, football , and baseball stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida. The stadium serves as host to the Miami Dolphins, the Florida Marlins, and the Miami Hurricanes football....	Miami basketball Miami Hurricanes The Miami Hurricanes represent the varsity sports teams of the University of Miami. They compete in the Coastal Division of the Atlantic Coast Conference ....	BankUnited Center BankUnited Center The BankUnited Center is a 8,000-seat multi-purpose arena on the campus of the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida. The venue hosts concerts, family shows, trade shows, lecture series, university events and sporting events, including all University of Miami men's and women's basketball games....	Atlantic Coast Conference Atlantic Coast Conference The Atlantic Coast Conference is a List of college athletic conferences in the United States. Founded in 1953, the ACC's twelve member university compete in twenty sports in the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I....
Barry University Barry University Barry University is a private university Roman Catholic Church university, which was founded in 1940 in Miami Shores, Florida, a suburb northeast of Downtown Miami Miami, Florida....	Buccaneers Barry University Barry University is a private university Roman Catholic Church university, which was founded in 1940 in Miami Shores, Florida, a suburb northeast of Downtown Miami Miami, Florida....	-	-	Barry basketball	Health & Sports Center	Sunshine State Conference Sunshine State Conference The Sunshine State Conference was originally formed in 1975 as an NCAA Division II men's basketball conference. It has since expanded to sponsor championships in 14 sports, including men's and women's basketball, baseball, men's and women's golf, women's Rowing , men's and women's soccer, softball, men's and women's tennis, and women's volle...
Nova Southeastern University Nova Southeastern University Nova Southeastern University, commonly referred to as NSU or Nova, is a selective, private university, coeducation, nonsectarian, research university located in Davie, Florida, Florida, USA....	Sharks NSU Sharks The Nova Southeastern Sharks are the athletic teams representing Nova Southeastern University in Davie, Florida The currently compete in the Sunshine State Conference....	-	-	NSU basketball	University Center The University Center at Nova Southeastern University Nova Southeastern University?s 366,000 square-foot University Center is a critical piece in the infrastructure of the university. It was constructed over a period of 2 years....	Sunshine State Conference Sunshine State Conference The Sunshine State Conference was originally formed in 1975 as an NCAA Division II men's basketball conference. It has since expanded to sponsor championships in 14 sports, including men's and women's basketball, baseball, men's and women's golf, women's Rowing , men's and women's soccer, softball, men's and women's tennis, and women's volle...

Economy

Miami is one of the country's most important financial centers. It is a major center of commerce, finances, corporate headquarters, and boasts a strong international business community. According to the ranking of world cities undertaken by the Globalization and World Cities Study Group & Network (GaWC) and based on the level of presence of global corporate service organizations, Miami is considered a "Beta World City".

Several large companies are headquartered in or around Miami, including but not limited to: Alienware

Alienware

Alienware is an United States computer hardware company and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dell It mainly assembles third party components into desktop computers with custom enclosures for high-performance gaming....
, Arquitectonica

Arquitectonica

File:Icon Brickell South Tower.jpgArquitectonica is an avant-garde architecture, interior design and urban planning corporation headquartered in Miami, Florida, United States with international offices in 9 other cities....
, Arrow Air

Arrow Air

Arrow Air is an United States cargo airline based in Miami, Florida, Florida, United States. It operates over 90 weekly scheduled cargo flights, and has a strong charter business....
, Bacardi

Bacardi

Bacardi is a family-controlled Distilled beverage company, best known as a producer of rums, including Bacardi Superior and Bacardi 151. The company sells in excess of 200 million bottles per year in nearly 100 countries....
, Benihana

Benihana

Benihana can refer to:*Benihana, Benihana's Hibachi Restaurant*Benihana * Benihana, the Japanese word for safflower...
, Brightstar Corporation

Brightstar Corporation

Brightstar Corporation, founded in 1997, is a United States based Privately-held company that provides Logistics services and supply chain management within the wireless telecommunications industry....
, Burger King

Burger King

Burger King , often abbreviated to BK, is a global chain store of hamburger fast food restaurants. Burger King is headquartered at 5505 Blue Lagoon Drive in unincorporated Miami-Dade County, Florida, Florida, United States....
, Celebrity Cruises

Celebrity Cruises

Celebrity Cruises is a cruise line founded in 1988 by the Greece Chandris Group. In 1997 Celebrity Cruises Ltd. merged with Royal Caribbean International to become Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd., which operates Celebrity, Royal Caribbean International, Azamara Cruises, Pullmantur Cruises and CDF Croisieres de France....
, Carnival Corporation, Carnival Cruise Lines

Carnival Cruise Lines

Carnival Cruise Lines is a cruise line operating a large number of cruise ships. Originally an independent company founded in 1972 by Ted Arison, it is now a branded division within Carnival Corporation & plc, a publicly traded company which owns a number of different cruise brands....
, CompUSA

CompUSA

CompUSA is a retailer and reseller of consumer electronics, technology products and computer services. CompUSA serves consumer retail, small-to-medium businesses, corporate, government, and education customers....
, Crispin Porter + Bogusky

Crispin Porter + Bogusky

Crispin Porter + Bogusky, a member of publicly-traded MDC Partners , is an advertising agency that currently employs around 700 people.The agency is headquartered in Miami, Florida, with a growing "co-headquarters" in Boulder, Colorado and additional offices in Santa Monica and London....
, Espírito Santo Financial Group

Espírito Santo Financial Group

The Esp?rito Santo Financial Group is an international group of companies based in Portugal. The flagship of ESFG is the Banco Esp?rito Santo, a full-service bank based in Lisbon....
, Fizber.com, Greenberg Traurig

Greenberg Traurig

Greenberg Traurig LLP is an international law firm with approximately 1,800 attorneys and governmental professionals in 30 locations in the United States, Europe and Asia....
, Interval International

Interval International

Interval International is a publicly traded company and former subsidiary of the corporation IAC/InterActiveCorp and is headquartered in Miami, Florida, USA....
, Lennar, Norwegian Cruise Lines, Perry Ellis International

Perry Ellis International

Perry Ellis International is a leading international marketer of apparel, offering a diverse portfolio of brands through multiple distribution channels....
, RCTV International, Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, Ryder Systems

Ryder

Ryder System, Inc. , or Ryder, is an United States-based provider of transportation and supply chain management solutions with global operations....
, Seabourn Cruise Line

Seabourn Cruise Line

Seabourn Cruise Line is an ultra luxury cruise line headquartered in Miami, Florida. The line operates all around the world, from short seven day Caribbean cruises to exotic 100+ day cruises around the world....
, Telefónica USA

Telefónica

Telef?nica, S.A., is a Spain Telephone company. Operating globally, it is one of the largest fixed-line and mobile telecommunications companies in the world: List of mobile network operators in terms of number of clients only behind China Mobile and Vodafone, and in the top five in market value....
, TeleFutura

TeleFutura

TeleFutura is a U.S. Spanish language broadcast television network owned by Univision with headquarters in Miami, Florida....
, Telemundo

Telemundo

Univision

U.S. Century Bank

U.S. Century Bank is a community bank in the U.S. state of Florida, locally owned and headquartered in Miami, Florida. It has approximately $1.750 billion in total assets, nearly $180 million in equity capital, and a branch network that includes 21 locations throughout Miami-Dade and Broward County....
, and World Fuel Services

World Fuel Services

World Fuel Services is a Fortune 500 company that is based in Miami, Florida. It is the global leader in the downstream marketing and financing of transportation products....
. Because of its proximity to Latin America, Miami serves as the headquarters of Latin American operations for more than 1400 multinational corporations, including AIG

AIG

AIG is American International Group, a major American insurance corporation.AIG may also refer to:*And-inverter graph, a concept in computer theory...
, American Airlines

American Airlines

Cisco Systems

Cisco Systems, Inc. is a multinational corporation with more than 66,000 employees and annual revenue of United States dollar39 billion as of 2008....
, Disney

The Walt Disney Company

The Walt Disney Company is the largest media and entertainment corporation in the world. Founded on October 16, 1923, by brothers Walt Disney and Roy O....
, Exxon

Exxon

Exxon is a brand of fuel sold by ExxonMobil....
, FedEx

FedEx

FedEx Corporation , originally known as FDX Corporation, is a logistics services company, based in the United States. The name "FedEx" is a syllabic abbreviation of the name of the company's original air division, Federal Express, which was used until 2000....
, Kraft Foods

Kraft Foods

Kraft Foods, Inc. is the second-largest food and beverage company headquartered in the United States and the third largest in the world .The Philip Morris Company , acquired Kraft for $12.9 billion in 1988, eventually merging it with another food subsidiary, General Foods, which it had acquired in 1985....
, Microsoft

Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is a multinational corporation computer technology corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of computer software products for computing devices....
, Oracle

Oracle Corporation

Oracle Corporation specializes in developing and marketing enterprise software products ? particularly database management systems. Through organic growth and a number of high-profile acquisitions, Oracle enlarged its share of the software market....
, SBC Communications, Sony

Sony

is a multinational corporation list of conglomerates corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan, and one of the world's largest media conglomerates with revenue exceeding US$99.1 billion ....
, and Visa International.

Miami International Airport

Miami International Airport

Miami International Airport is a public airport located eight miles northwest of the central business district of Miami, Florida, in unincorporated area Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States....
and the Port of Miami are among the nation's busiest ports of entry, especially for cargo from South America and the Caribbean. Additionally, Downtown has the largest concentration of international banks in the country located mostly in Brickell

Brickell

Brickell is a neighborhoods of Miami, Florida partly within Downtown Miami Miami, Florida. It lies south of the Miami River , extending south to SE 26th Road , and is mostly mixed financial and residential north of Broadway , and mostly residential south of Broadway....
, Miami's financial district. Miami was also the host city of the 2003 Free Trade Area of the Americas

Free Trade Area of the Americas

The Free Trade Area of the Americas was a proposed agreement to eliminate or reduce the trade barriers among all countries in the Americas but Cuba....
negotiations, and is one of the leading candidates to become the trading bloc's headquarters.

Tourism is also an important industry in Miami. The beaches, conventions, festivals and events draw over 12 million visitors annually from across the country and around the world, spending $17.1 billion. The historical Art Deco

Art Deco

Art Deco was a popular international design movement from 1925 until 1939, affecting the decorative arts such as architecture, interior design, and industrial design, as well as the visual arts such as fashion, painting, the graphic arts and film....
district in South Beach

South Beach

File:MiamiSouthBeachPanoramaEdit.jpgSouth Beach is the section of Miami Beach, Florida, Florida that encompasses the southernmost 23 blocks of an island separating the Atlantic Ocean and Biscayne Bay....
, is widely regarded as one of the most glamorous in the world for its world-famous nightclubs, beaches, historical buildings, and shopping. However, it is important to note that Miami Beach is a separate city from the City of Miami.

Miami is the home to the National Hurricane Center

National Hurricane Center

The National Hurricane Center , located at Florida International University in Miami, Florida, is the division of National Weather Service's Tropical Prediction Center responsible for tracking and predicting the likely behavior of tropical depressions, tropical storms and tropical cyclone....
and the headquarters of the United States Southern Command

United States Southern Command

The United States Southern Command , located in Miami, Florida, is one of ten Unified Combatant Commands in the United States Department of Defense....
, responsible for military operations in Central and South America. In addition to these roles, Miami is also an industrial center, especially for stone quarrying and warehousing.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, in 2004, Miami had the third highest incidence of family incomes below the federal poverty

Poverty

Poverty is the shortage of common things such as food, clothing, shelter and safe drinking water, all of which determine our quality of life. It may also include the lack of access to opportunities such as education and employment which aid the escape from poverty and/or allow one to enjoy the respect of fellow citizens....
line in the United States, making it the third poorest city in the USA, behind only Detroit, Michigan

Detroit, Michigan

Detroit is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Wayne County, Michigan. Detroit is a major port city on the Detroit River, in the Midwestern United States of the United States....
(ranked #1) and El Paso, Texas

El Paso, Texas

El Paso is a city in and the county seat of El Paso County, Texas, Texas, United States, and part of the . According to the United States Census Bureau 2006 population estimates, the city had a population of 606,913....
(ranked #2.) Miami is also one of the very few cities where its local government went bankrupt, in 2001.

In 2005, the Miami area witnessed its largest real estate

Real estate

Real estate is a law term that encompasses land along with anything permanently affixed to the land, such as buildings, specifically property that is fixed in location. boom since the 1920s

Florida land boom of the 1920s

Midtown Miami

Demographics

Year	City proper	Metro area
Miami population
1900	1,681	N/A
1910	5,471	N/A
1920	29,549	66,542
1930	110,637	214,830
1940	172,172	387,522
1950	249,276	693,705
1960	291,688	1,497,099
1970	334,859	2,236,645
1980	346,865	3,220,844
1990	358,548	4,056,100
2000	362,470	5,007,564
2007	409,719	5,413,212

Miami is the 43rd most populous city in the U.S. The Miami metropolitan area

South Florida metropolitan area

Miami-Dade County, Florida

Broward County, Florida

Broward County is a county located in the U.S. state of Florida. As of 2000, the population is 1,623,018; this makes it the second most populated county in the state....
and Palm Beach

Palm Beach County, Florida

Palm Beach County has the largest land area located in the U.S. state of Florida. As of 2007, the county had an estimated population of 1,351,236 , making it the third most populous in the state of Florida and the twenty ninth most populous in the United States....
counties, had a combined population of more than 5.4 million people, ranked fourth-largest in the United States, (behind Chicago, Illinois), and is the largest metropolitan area

Metropolitan area

A metropolitan area is a large population center consisting of a large metropolis and its adjacent zone of influence, or of more than one closely adjoining neighboring central city and their zone of influence....
in the Southeastern United States

Southeastern United States

The US Southeast is the eastern portion of the Southern United States, but the Census Bureau does not provide a standard definition of a "Southeast" region of the United States, and organizations that need to subdivide the US are free to define a "Southeast" region to fit their needs....
. As of 2008, the United Nations

United Nations

World's largest cities

The question of determining the world's largest cities does not allow a single, simple answer. It depends on which definitions of "city" and "size" are used, and how those definitions are applied....
is the fourth-largest in the United States, and the 44th-largest in the world. As of the census of 2000, there were 362,470 people, 134,198 households, and 83,336 families residing in the city. The population density

Population density

Population density is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume. It is frequently applied to living organisms, and particularly to humans....
was 10,160.9/mi² (3,923.5/km²). There were 148,388 housing units at an average density of 4,159.7/mi² (1,606.2/km²).

The racial makeup of the city proper is as follows:

White
White American

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: 66.6% (Non-Hispanic White 11.8%)
Hispanic or Latino
Hispanic and Latino Americans

Hispanic and Latino Americans are United States of origins in Hispanic countries of Latin America or in Spain. The group encompasses distinct sub-groups by national origin and race, and there is much diversity of race and ancestry within national origin groups as well....
of any race: 65.8%
Black
African American

African Americans or Black Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have origins in any of the Black people populations of Africa....
(many of whom are from the Caribbean) or African American
African American

African Americans or Black Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have origins in any of the Black people populations of Africa....
: 22.3%
Some other races: 5.4%
Two or more races: 4.7%
Asian
Asian American

Asian Americans are United States of Asian people. They include sub-ethnic groups such as Chinese Americans, Filipino Americans, Indian Americans, Vietnamese Americans, Korean Americans, Japanese Americans and others whose national origin is from the Asia....
: 0.7%
Pacific Islander
Pacific Islander American

Pacific Islander Americans are residents of the United States with original ancestry from Oceania. They represent the smallest Race counted in the United States Census 2000....
: 0.04%
Native American
Native Americans in the United States

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: 0.2%

As of 2000, in terms of national origin and/or ethnic origin, 34.1% of the populace was Cuba

Cuba

The Republic of Cuba is a country in the Caribbean. It consists of the island of Cuba , the island of Isla de la Juventud, and several adjacent small islands....
n, while 5.6% of the city's population was Nicaragua

Nicaragua

Nicaragua officially the Republic of Nicaragua , is a representative democracy republic. It is the largest state in Central America with an area of 130,000 km2, about the size of the state of New York....
n, 5.5% of the population was Haiti

Haiti

Haiti , officially the Republic of Haiti , is a Haitian Creole language- and French language-speaking Caribbean country. Along with the Dominican Republic, it occupies the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antilles archipelago....
an, 3.3% of the population was Honduran

Honduras

Honduras is a democratic republic in Central America. It was formerly known as Spanish Honduras to differentiate it from British Honduras ....
, 1.7% of all residents were Dominican

Dominican Republic

The Dominican Republic is a nation on the island of Hispaniola, part of the Greater Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean region. The western third of the island is occupied by the nation of Haiti, making Hispaniola one of two Caribbean islands that are List of divided islands, Saint Martin being the other....
, and 1.6% of the population was Colombia

Colombia

Colombia , officially the Republic of Colombia , is a country in north-western South America. Colombia is bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the north west by Panama; and to the west by the Pacific Ocean....
n. In 2004, the United Nations Development Program

United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
(UNDP) ranked Miami first in terms of percentage of residents born outside of the country it is located in (59%), followed by Toronto

Toronto

Toronto is the List of the 100 largest municipalities in Canada by population in Canada and the Provinces and territories of Canada Provincial and territorial capitals of Canada of Ontario....
(50%).

There were 134,198 households out of which 26.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 36.6% were married couples living together, 18.7% have a female head of household with no husband present, and 37.9% were non-families. 30.4% of all households were made up of individuals and 12.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.61 and the average family size was 3.25. The age distribution was 21.7% under the age of 18, 8.8% from 18 to 24, 30.3% from 25 to 44, 22.1% from 45 to 64, and 17.0% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 38 years. For every 100 females there were 98.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 97.3 males.

The median income for a household in the city was $23,483, and the median income for a family was $27,225. Males had a median income of $24,090 versus $20,115 for females. The per capita income

Per capita income

Per capita income means how much each individual receives, in monetary terms, of the yearly income generated in the country. This is what each citizen is to receive if the yearly national income is divided equally among everyone....
for the city was $15,128. About 23.5% of families and 28.5% of the population were below the poverty line, including 38.2% of those under age 18 and 29.3% of those age 65 or over.

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

Immigration to the United States

American immigration refers to the movement of World population to the United States. Immigration has been a major source of population growth and cultural change throughout much of history of the United States....
. Miami is regarded as more of a multicultural mosaic

Multiculturalism

The term multiculturalism generally refer to an applied ideology of Race , culture and Ethnic group diversity within the demographics of a specified place, usually at the scale of an organization such as a school, business, neighborhood, city or nation....
, than it is a melting pot

Melting pot

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, with residents still maintaining much of, or some of their cultural trait

Culture

Culture is difficult to define. For example, in 1952, Alfred Kroeber and Clyde Kluckhohn compiled a list of 164 definitions of "culture" in Culture: A Critical Review of Concepts and Definitions....
s. The overall culture of Miami is heavily influenced by its large population of ethnic Latin America

Latin America

Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages ? particularly Spanish language and Portuguese language, and variably French language ? are primarily spoken....
ns and cultures from Caribbeans from islands such as Jamaica

Jamaica

Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length and as much as in width situated in the Caribbean Sea. It is about south of Cuba, and west of the island of Hispaniola, on which Haiti and the Dominican Republic are situated....
, Trinidad and Tobago

Trinidad and Tobago

The Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is an island country in the southern Caribbean, lying northeast of the South American country of Venezuela and south of Grenada in the Lesser Antilles....
, The Bahamas

The Bahamas

The Bahamas, officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an independent, sovereign, English language-speaking country consisting of two thousand cays and seven hundred islands that form an archipelago....
, and Cuba

Cuba

The Republic of Cuba is a country in the Caribbean. It consists of the island of Cuba , the island of Isla de la Juventud, and several adjacent small islands....
; many of whom spoke Spanish

Spanish language

Haitian Creole language

Haitian Creole language , often called simply Creole or Krey?l , is a language spoken in Haiti by about 7.0 million people , which is nearly the entire population, and via emigration, about 400,000 speakers who live in the Bahamas, Canada, Cayman Islands, Dominican Republic, French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Puerto Rico, and United States....
.

Today, the Miami area has a sizable community of citizens,undocumented populations

Illegal immigration to the United States

Illegal immigration to the United States refers to the act of foreign nationals violating U.S. immigration policies and national laws by immigrating to the United States without proper consent from the United States government....
, and permanent residents, of Argentines

Argentina

Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic , is a country in South America, constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city....
, Bahamians

Bahamians

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, Brazilians, Canadians

Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
, Chile

Chile

Chile, officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long and narrow coastal strip wedged between the Andes mountains and the Pacific Ocean....
ans, Chinese

Chinese people

The term Chinese people may refer to any of the following:*People who reside in and hold citizenship of the Nationality Law of the People's Republic of China or the Republic of China ....
, Colombia

Colombia

Cuba

The Republic of Cuba is a country in the Caribbean. It consists of the island of Cuba , the island of Isla de la Juventud, and several adjacent small islands....
ns, Dominicans

Dominican Republic

Ecuador

Ecuador , officially the , literally, "Republic of the equator") is a representative democratic republic in South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, by Peru on the east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean to the west....
ans, French

French people

French people can refer to:* The legal residents and citizens of France, regardless of ancestry. For a legal discussion, see French nationality law....
, Germans, Greeks

Greeks

The Greeks , also known as Hellenes, are a nation and ethnic group native to Greece, Cyprus and neighbouring regions, who can also be found in Greek diaspora communities around the world....
, Guatemala

Guatemala

Guatemala is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the north and west, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, Belize and the Caribbean to the northeast, and Honduras and El Salvador to the southeast....
ns, Guayanese

Guyana

Guyana , officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana and previously known as British Guiana, is the only state of the Commonwealth of Nations on mainland South America....
, Haiti

Haiti

Honduras

Honduras is a democratic republic in Central America. It was formerly known as Spanish Honduras to differentiate it from British Honduras ....
, Jamaica

Jamaica

Italian people

The Italian people are a Southern European ethnic group located primarily in Italy and, by virtue of a wide-ranging Italian diaspora, throughout Western Europe, the Americas and Australia....
s, Mexicans

Mexico

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, Nicaragua

Nicaragua

Peru

Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....
vians, Russians

Russians

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, Salvadoran, Trinidadians and Tobagonians

Trinidad and Tobago

Turkish people

The Turkish people , also known as "Turks" are defined mainly as citizens of the Republic of Turkey. An early history text provided the definition of being a Turk as "any individual within the Republic of Turkey, whatever his faith who speaks Turkish, grows up with Turkish culture and adopts the Turkish ideal is a Turk." This ideal...
, South Africa

South Africa

The Republic of South Africa, also known by Official names of South Africa, is a country located at the southern tip of the continent of Africa....
ns, and Venezuela

Venezuela

Venezuela , officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a country on the northern coast of South America.The country comprises a continental mainland and numerous islands located off the Venezuelan coastline in the Caribbean Sea....
ns, as well as a sizable Puerto Rican

Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is a Autonomy Territories of the United States of the United States located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of the Virgin Islands....
population throughout the metropolitan area. While commonly thought of as mainly a city of Hispanic

Hispanic

French people

French people can refer to:* The legal residents and citizens of France, regardless of ancestry. For a legal discussion, see French nationality law....
, French Canadian

French Canadian

French Canadian refers to a nation or ethnic group of French people Kinship and Descent that originated in Canada, New France during the period of French colonization of the Americas beginning in the 17th century....
, German

German American

German Americans are citizens of the United States of Germans ancestry, with traditions and self-identity based on German language and culture....
, Italian

Italian American

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, and Russian

Russian American

Russian Americans are Hyphenated American whose ancestors were born in Russia. Non-Ethnic group Russians in this group could be Jews, Ukrainians, Armenians, or any other ethnicity who were born and grew up in Russia....
communities. The communities have grown to a prominent place in Miami and its suburbs, creating ethnic enclave neighborhoods such as Little Haiti, Little Havana, Little Managua, Little Brazil

North Bay Village, Florida

North Bay Village is a city located in Miami-Dade County, Florida. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 6,733. As of 2004, the population recorded by the U.S....
, Little Moscow

Sunny Isles Beach, Florida

Sunny Isles Beach is a city located on a shoal in northeast Miami-Dade County, Florida, Florida, United States. The City is bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the east and the Intracoastal Waterway on the west....
, and Little San Juan.

Languages

As of 2000, speakers of Spanish

Spanish language

First language

A first language is the language a human being learns from birth. A person's first language is a basis for sociolinguistic identity....
accounted for 66.75% of residents, while English was spoken by 25.45%, Haitian Creole

Haitian Creole language

French language

French is a Romance language spoken around the world by around 80 million people as first language, by 190 million as second language, and by about another 200 million people as an acquired tongue, with significant speakers in 54 countries....
speakers comprised 0.76% of the population. Other languages that were spoken throughout the city include Portuguese at 0.41%, German

German language

German is a West Germanic languages, thus related to and classified alongside English language and Dutch language. It is one of the world's world language and the most widely spoken mother tongue in the European Union....
at 0.18%, Italian

Italian language

Italian is a Romance languages spoken by about 63 million people as a first language, primarily in Italy. In Switzerland, Italian is one of four Linguistic geography of Switzerlands....
at 0.16%, Arabic

Arabic language

Arabic is a Central Semitic language, thus related to and classified alongside other Semitic languages languages such as Hebrew language and Aramaic language....
at 0.15%, Chinese

Chinese language

Chinese or the Sinitic language is a language family consisting of language mutually unintelligible to varying degrees. Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China, it forms one of the two branches of Sino-Tibetan languages of languages....
at 0.11%, and Greek

Greek language

Greek is an Indo-European languages native to the southern Balkan peninsula, the language of the Greek people. It forms an independent branch within Indo-European....
at 0.08% of the population. Miami also has one of the largest percentage populations in the U.S. that have residents who speak first language

First language

A first language is the language a human being learns from birth. A person's first language is a basis for sociolinguistic identity....
s other than English at home (74.54%).

Crime

Like many other major US cities, Miami has an above average crime rate. The highest crime rates were in the late 1970s and early 1980s during the "Cocaine Cowboy" era, since Miami was where the majority of cocaine

Cocaine

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entered the United States from Colombia

Colombia

Organized crime

Organized crime or criminal organizations comprise groups or operations run by crimes, most commonly for the purpose of generating a money profit....
culture. Such crimes inspired the famous television series "Miami Vice

Miami Vice

Miami Vice is an United States of America television series produced by Michael Mann for NBC. The show became noted for its heavy integration and use of music and visual effects to tell a story....
."

Law and government

The government of the City of Miami, Florida, provided for under this Charter shall be known as the "mayor-city commissioner plan", and the city commission shall consist of five commissioners, who are qualified voters of the city and who shall be elected from districts in the manner hereinafter provided. The city commission shall constitute the governing body with powers to pass ordinances adopt regulations and exercise all powers conferred upon the city except as hereinafter provided. The mayor shall exercise all powers conferred herein and shall appoint as provided in section of this Charter a chief administrative officer to be known as the "city manager.". The City of Miami is governed by Mayor Manny Diaz

Manny Diaz

Manuel Alberto Diaz is the current List of mayors of Miami of Miami, Florida, Florida.Mayor Diaz and his mother, Elisa, left Cuba in 1961. He graduated from Belen Jesuit Preparatory School in 1973....
and 5 City commissioners which oversee the five districts in the City. It holds regular meetings in the City Hall

City hall

A city hall or town hall is the chief administrative building of a city or town's Local government and usually houses the City council town council, its associated departments and their employees....
of Miami located in 3500 Pan American Drive Miami, Florida 33133 in the neighborhood of Coconut Grove.

City council

Manuel A. Diaz - Mayor of the City of Miami, first elected in 2001 and re-elected to a second term in 2006.
Angel Gonzalez - City of Miami Commissioner, District 1
Marc Sarnoff - City of Miami Commissioner, District 2
Joe M. Sanchez - City of Miami Commissioner, District 3
Tomas P. Regalado - City of Miami Commissioner, District 4
Michelle Spence-Jones - City of Miami Commissioner, District 5

City management

Pedro G. Hernandez - City Manager
City manager

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Julie O. Bru - City Attorney
City attorney

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Priscilla Thompson - City Clerk
City clerk

The municipal clerk, along with the tax collector, is the oldest of public servants. The office can be traced to biblical times and even before.St....

Education

Public schools

Public schools in Miami are governed by Miami-Dade County Public Schools

Miami-Dade County Public Schools

The Miami-Dade County Public Schools is a public school district serving Miami-Dade County, Florida, Florida. It is the largest school district in Florida and the List of the largest school districts in the United States by enrollment in the United States, with a student enrollment of 385,655 as of September 21, 2008....
, which is the largest school district in Florida and the fourth-largest in the United States. As of September 2008 it has a student enrollment of 385,655 and over 392 schools and centers. The district is also the largest minority public school system in the country, with 60% of its students being of Hispanic origin, 28% African American

African American

African Americans or Black Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have origins in any of the Black people populations of Africa....
, 10% White (non-Hispanic) and 2% non-white of other minorities. Miami is home to some of the nation's best high schools, such as Design and Architecture High School

Design and Architecture High School

Design and Architecture Senior High School is a magnet school in the heart of the Design District in Miami, Florida. US News & World Report currently ranks DASH as the 5th best high school in the nation....
, ranked the nation's best magnet school

Magnet school

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, MAST Academy

MAST Academy

Maritime and Science Technology Academy, commonly referred to as MAST Academy is a public high school in Miami, Florida. MAST Academy is a magnet school under the governance of Miami-Dade County Public Schools....
, Coral Reef High School

Coral Reef High School

Coral Reef Senior High School is a secondary school located at 10101 S.W. 152nd Street in Miami, Florida; its principal is currently Mrs. Adrianne F....
, ranked 20th-best public high school in the U.S., Miami Palmetto High School

Miami Palmetto High School

Miami Palmetto Senior High School is a secondary school located at 7460 S.W. 118th Street in Pinecrest, Florida, Florida, USA; its principal is Howard Weiner....
, and the New World School of the Arts

New World School of the Arts

New World School of the Arts is a College or university school of music in Miami, Florida with programs in visual arts, dance, theatre, musical theatre, Instrumental, and vocal music....
. M-DCPS is also one of a few public school districts in the United States to offer optional bilingual education

Bilingual education

Bilingual education involves teaching most subjects in school through two different languages - in the United States, instruction occurs in English and a minority language, such as Spanish or Chinese, with varying amounts of each language used in accordance with the program model....
.

Private schools

Miami is home to several prestigious Roman Catholic, Jewish and non-denominational private schools. The Archdiocese of Miami operates the city's Catholic private schools, which include: Our Lady of Lourdes Academy

Our Lady of Lourdes Academy

Our Lady of Lourdes Academy is a Roman Catholic, all-girls high school in Miami, Florida founded in 1963.It is run by the Immaculate Heart of Mary Sisters....
, St. Hugh Catholic School, St. Theresa School

St. Theresa School

St. Theresa School is a private Catholic school located at 2701 Indian Mound Trail, Coral Gables, Florida, Florida, in the Archdiocese of Miami....
, La Salle High School

La Salle High School

La Salle High School is the name of several educational institutions affiliated with the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools, also known as the Lasallian Brothers, a Roman Catholic religious teaching order founded by French Priest Saint Jean-Baptiste de la Salle:...
, Monsignor Edward Pace High School

Monsignor Edward Pace High School

Monsignor Edward Pace High School is a Catholic secondary school in Miami Gardens, Florida.It was named a Blue Ribbon Schools Program in 2002. and one of the top 50 Catholic high schools in the county in 2004 and 2005 by the Catholic High School Honor Roll....
, Carrollton School of the Sacred Heart

Carrollton School of the Sacred Heart

Carrollton School of the Sacred Heart is a Catholic college preparatory day school for girls founded in 1961 in the neighborhood of Coconut Grove in Miami, Florida....
, Christopher Columbus High School

Christopher Columbus High School

Christopher Columbus High School is a Roman Catholic Church, college preparatory, all-male high school set on a campus in Miami, Florida. It was established in 1958 by the Marist Brothers who also form part of school administration and faculty....
, Archbishop Curley-Notre Dame High School

Archbishop Curley-Notre Dame High School

Archbishop Curley-Notre Dame High School is a private school, Roman Catholic high school in Miami, Florida. It is located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Miami....
, St. Brendan High School

St. Brendan High School

St. Brendan High School is a co-educational private Roman Catholic Church high school in Westchester, Florida, a southwestern suburb of Miami, Florida....
, amongst numerous other elementary and high schools. Some of the most well-known non-denominational private schools in Miami are Ransom Everglades

Ransom Everglades

Ransom Everglades is an independent, co-educational day school serving grades six to twelve in Coconut Grove, Florida. It formed with the merger in 1974 of the Everglades School for Girls and the Ransom School for Boys....
, Gulliver Preparatory School

Gulliver Preparatory School

Gulliver Preparatory School is a private not-for-profit co-educational, secondary education located in Pinecrest, Florida, a suburb of Miami, Florida, United States....
, and Miami Country Day School

Miami Country Day School

Miami Country Day School is a private, non-denominational, Mixed sex education JK–12 college preparatory school near Miami Shores, just north of the city of Miami, Florida....
, which are traditionally known as some of the country's best schools. Other schools in the outlying areas include Belen Jesuit Preparatory School

Belen Jesuit Preparatory School

Belen Jesuit Preparatory School is a Roman Catholic preparatory school in Miami, Florida, Florida. It was established in Cuba by the Society of Jesus in 1854, but moved to the United States after the communist government of Fidel Castro, himself an alumnus, took power ....
and Samuel Scheck Hillel Community Day School

Samuel Scheck Hillel Community Day School

The Samuel Scheck Hillel Community Day Schools is a private school, Jewish, coeducation pK?12 school near Aventura, Florida, Florida just north of the city of Miami, Florida....
.

Colleges and universities

(List includes institutions in and around Miami.)

Barry University
Barry University

Barry University is a private university Roman Catholic Church university, which was founded in 1940 in Miami Shores, Florida, a suburb northeast of Downtown Miami Miami, Florida....
(private)
Carlos Albizu University
Carlos Albizu University

Carlos Albizu University is a private university non-profit university offering undergraduate and graduate school in psychology, business, and education....
(private)
Florida International University
Florida International University

Florida International University, commonly referred to as FIU or Florida International, is a public university research university located in Miami, Florida, Florida, in the United States, with its main campus at University Park, Florida....
(public, largest university in South Florida)
Florida Memorial University
Florida Memorial University

Florida Memorial University is a private coeducational four-year university in Miami Gardens, Florida, Florida. One of the 39 member institutions of the United Negro College Fund, and a Historically black colleges and universities, Baptist-related institution which is ranked second in the Florida and ninth in the United States for graduating...
(private)
Johnson and Wales University (private)
Keiser University (private)
Miami Dade College
Miami Dade College

Miami Dade College, or simply Miami Dade, is a public college with its main campus located in Miami, Florida and with seven other campuses throughout Miami-Dade County, Florida in the United States....
(public, largest institution of higher learning in the U.S.)
Miami International University of Art and Design (private)
Nova Southeastern University
Nova Southeastern University

Nova Southeastern University, commonly referred to as NSU or Nova, is a selective, private university, coeducation, nonsectarian, research university located in Davie, Florida, Florida, USA....
(private)
St. Thomas University
St. Thomas University

Schools with the name St. Thomas University:*St. Thomas University *St. Thomas University See also University of St. Thomas...
(private)
Talmudic University (private)
University of Miami
University of Miami

The University of Miami is a private, non-sectarian university founded in 1925 in the city of Coral Gables, Florida, Florida, United States, a historic suburb of Miami, Florida....
(private, located in Coral Gables
Coral Gables, Florida

Coral Gables is a city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, Florida, southwest of Miami, Florida, in the United States. The city is best known globally as the home of the University of Miami....
)

The city ranks second-to-last in people over 18 with a high school diploma, with 47% of the population not having that degree.

Transportation

Airports

serves over 35 million people annually and is the world's 10th-largest cargo airport.]]

Miami International Airport

Miami International Airport

Unincorporated area

In law, an unincorporated area is a region of Real property that is not a part of any municipality. To "incorporate" in this context means to form a municipal corporation, a city or town with its own government....
in the county, serves as the primary international airport of the Miami Area. One of the busiest international airports in the world, Miami International Airport caters to over 35 million passengers a year. Identifiable locally, as well as several worldwide authorities, as MIA or KMIA, the airport is a major hub and the single largest international gateway for American Airlines

American Airlines

American Airlines, Inc. is a major carrier of the United States. It is the world's largest airlines in passenger miles transported and passenger fleet size; second largest, behind FedEx Express, in aircraft operated; and second behind Air France-KLM in operating revenues....
, the world's largest passenger air carrier. Miami International is the United States’ third largest international port of entry for foreign air passengers (behind New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport

John F. Kennedy International Airport

John F. Kennedy International Airport is an international airport located on Long Island, in Queens County, New York in southeastern New York City about 12 miles from Lower Manhattan....
and Los Angeles International Airport

Los Angeles International Airport

Los Angeles International Airport is the primary airport serving Los Angeles, California, California, the United States metropolitan area of the United States....
), and is the seventh largest such gateway in the world. The airport's extensive international route network includes non-stop flights to over seventy international cities in North and South America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.

Alternatively, nearby Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport

Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport

Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport is an international commercial airport located in Dania Beach, Florida, three miles southwest of the central business district of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, a city in Broward County, Florida, Florida, United States....
also serves commercial traffic in the Miami area. Opa-Locka Airport

Opa-locka Airport

Opa-locka Airport , also known as Opa-locka Executive Airport, is a general aviation airport and joint civil-military airfield located in Opa-locka, Florida and 10 miles north of the central business district of Miami, Florida, in Miami-Dade County, Florida, Florida, United States....
in Opa-Locka

Opa-locka, Florida

Opa-locka is a city located in Miami-Dade County, Florida, Florida, United States. As of the mid decade census, the population was 15,376 as recorded by the U.S....
and Kendall-Tamiami Airport in an unincorporated area serve general aviation traffic in the Miami area.

Port of Miami

Miami is home to one of the largest ports in the United States, the Port of Miami. It is the largest cruise ship port in the world. The port is often called the "Cruise Capital of the World" and the "Cargo Gateway of the Americas". It has retained its status as the number one cruise/passenger port in the world for well over a decade accommodating the largest cruise ships and the major cruise lines. In 2007, the port served 3,787,410 passengers. Additionally, the port is one of the nation's busiest cargo ports, importing 7.8 million tons of cargo in 2007. Among North American ports, it ranks second only to the Port of South Louisiana

Port of South Louisiana

The Port of South Louisiana is the largest volume shipping port in the Western Hemisphere and 9th largest in the world. It is the largest bulk cargo port in the world....
in New Orleans in terms of cargo tonnage imported/exported from Latin America. The port is on and has 7 passenger terminals. China is the port's number one import country, and Honduras

Honduras

Honduras is a democratic republic in Central America. It was formerly known as Spanish Honduras to differentiate it from British Honduras ....
is the number one export country. Miami has the world's largest amount of cruise line headquarters, home to: Carnival Cruise Lines

Carnival Cruise Lines

Celebrity Cruises

Costa Cruises

Costa Crociere S.p.A. is an Italian cruise line with 14 ships, including the Costa Pacifica and the Costa Luminosa. It is part of Carnival Corporation....
, Crystal Cruises

Crystal Cruises

Crystal Cruise Lines, most commonly seen as Crystal Cruises, is a luxury cruise ship line founded in 1988 and notable for its two medium-sized, high-end ships....
, Norwegian Cruise Line

Norwegian Cruise Line

File:Seattle Cruise Ship.jpgFile:Norwegian gem .jpgNorwegian Cruise Line is a company operating cruise ships, headquartered in Miami, Florida....
, Oceania Cruises

Oceania Cruises

Oceania Cruises is a United States-based shipping company that operates three luxury cruise ships on world-wide itenaries. It is currently the world?s largest upscale cruise line, offering good-quality food and itineraries at a cheap price when compared to other upscale cruise lines....
, Royal Caribbean International

Royal Caribbean International

Royal Caribbean International is a Miami, Florida -based cruise line brand owned by Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd., with 21 ships in service and two under construction....
, and Windjammer Barefoot Cruises

Windjammer Barefoot Cruises

Windjammer Barefoot Cruises was a leisure cruise line based in Miami, Florida, Florida. Founded in 1947, the company scheduled one and two week cruises in the Caribbean and Central America, using a fleet of sailing ships....
.

Public transportation

Public transportation in Miami is operated by Miami-Dade Transit

Miami-Dade Transit

Miami-Dade Transit is the public transit authority in Miami-Dade County, Florida, Florida. It is the largest transit system in Florida and the 12th largest transit system in the United States It currently operates the Metrorail, Metromover, Metrobus, and Paratransit systems....
and SFRTA

South Florida Regional Transportation Authority

The South Florida Regional Transportation Authority is a tri-county federal public transit authority operated in Pompano Beach, Florida, Florida....
, and includes commuter rail (Tri-Rail

Tri-Rail

Tri-Rail is a Regional rail line linking Miami, Florida, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and West Palm Beach, Florida, Florida, United States. It is run by the South Florida Regional Transportation Authority....
), heavy-rail rapid transit

Rapid transit

A rapid transit, subway, underground, elevated railway or metro system is an railway electrification system public transport rail transport in an urban area with high capacity and frequency, and which is grade separation from other traffic....
(Metrorail), an elevated people mover

People mover

Metrobus

Metrobus may refer to:* MCW Metrobus, a bus model manufactured by Metro Cammell Weymann in the 1970s and 1980s* Metrobus , a bus operator in south-east England...
. Miami has Florida's highest transit ridership as about 12% of Miami's population uses transit on a daily basis.

Miami's heavy-rail rapid transit system, Metrorail, is an elevated system comprising 22 stations on a 22-mile (36-km)-long line. Metrorail runs from the western suburbs of Hialeah

Hialeah, Florida

Medley, Florida

Medley is a town in Miami-Dade County, Florida, Florida, United States. The community was named after its founder, Sylvester Medley. The population was 1,098 at the 2000 census....
through the Civic Center, Downtown

Downtown Miami

Downtown Miami is the central business district of South Florida, Miami-Dade County and Miami, Florida, Florida. Brickell Avenue/Biscayne Boulevard is the main north-south road in downtown, and Flagler Street is the main east-west road in the Central Business District....
, Coconut Grove, Coral Gables and ends in the southern suburb of Pinecrest

Pinecrest, Florida

Pinecrest is a village in Miami-Dade County, Florida, Florida, United States. The population was 19,055 at the 2000 census. As of 2004, the population recorded by the U.S....
. A free, elevated people mover

People mover

A people mover or automated people mover is a fully automated, grade separation mass transit system. The term is generally used only to describe systems serving relatively small areas such as airports, downtown districts or theme parks, but is sometimes applied to considerably more complex automated systems....
, Metromover, operates 21 stations on three different lines in downtown Miami, with a station roughly every two blocks. Several expansion projects are being funded by a transit development sales tax surcharge throughout Miami-Dade County.

Tri-Rail

Tri-Rail

South Florida Regional Transportation Authority

The South Florida Regional Transportation Authority is a tri-county federal public transit authority operated in Pompano Beach, Florida, Florida....
, runs from Miami International Airport

Miami International Airport

West Palm Beach, Florida

West Palm Beach, also known as West Palm, is the most populous city in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States. The city is also the oldest incorporated municipality in South Florida....
, making eighteen stops.

Construction is currently underway on the Miami Intermodal Center

Miami Intermodal Center

Miami Intermodal Center is a planned transportation hub under construction by the Florida Department of Transportation in Miami, Florida, in the United States....
and Miami Central Station, a massive transportation hub servicing Metrorail, Amtrak

Amtrak

Tri-Rail

Miami-Dade Transit

Taxicab

A taxicab, also taxi or cab, is a type of public transport for a single passenger, or small group of passengers, typically for a non-shared ride....
s, rental cars, private automobiles, bicycles and pedestrians adjacent to Miami International Airport. Completion of the Miami Intermodal Center is expected to be completed by 2010, and will serve over 150,000 commuters and travelers in the Miami area. Phase I of Miami Central Station is scheduled to be completed in June 2010, and Phase II in 2011.

Two new light rail systems, Baylink and the Miami Streetcar, have been proposed and are currently in the planning stage. BayLink will connect Downtown

Downtown Miami

South Beach

Midtown Miami

Road and rail

Miami is the southern terminus of Amtrak

Amtrak

The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, doing business as Amtrak , is a government-owned corporation that was organized on May 1, 1971 to provide Inter-city rail train#Passenger trains service in the United States....
's Atlantic Coast services, with its final station located in the suburb of Hialeah.

Miami-Dade County is served by four Interstate Highways (I-75, I-95

Interstate 95 in Florida

Interstate 95 , the main Interstate Highway on the east coast of the United States, serves the Atlantic coast of Florida. It begins at a partial interchange with U.S....
, I-195

Interstate 195 (Florida)

Interstate 195 is a 4.91 mile spur route connecting Interstate 95 in Florida in the west with Miami Beach, Florida in the east, crossing Biscayne Bay by traveling over the Julia Tuttle Causeway....
, I-395

Interstate 395 (Florida)

Interstate 395 connects Interstate 95 in Florida in the west with the MacArthur Causeway in the east in the Miami, Florida area. I-395 measures 1.114 miles in length....
) and several U.S. Highways including U.S. Route 1, U.S. Route 27, U.S. Route 41, and U.S. Route 441. For information on the street grid, see Miami-Dade County, Florida#Street grid

Miami-Dade County, Florida

Miami-Dade County is a county located in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Florida. The United States Census Bureau estimates that the county population was 2,387,170 in 2007, making it the most populous county in Florida and the List of the most populous counties in the United States....
. Some of the major Florida State Roads (and their common names) serving the county are:

SR 112
State Road 112 (Florida)

State Road 112 is an east-west state highway connecting Miami International Airport in Miami, Florida to Miami Beach, Florida in the U.S. state of Florida....
(Airport Expressway) Miami Beach to MIA
Miami International Airport

Miami International Airport is a public airport located eight miles northwest of the central business district of Miami, Florida, in unincorporated area Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States....
SR 821 (The HEFT or Homestead Extension of the Florida Turnpike: SR 91/Miami Gardens
Miami Gardens, Florida

Miami Gardens is a city located in Miami-Dade County, Florida, Florida. The city name comes from one of the major roadways through the area, Miami Gardens Drive....
to U.S. Route 1/Florida City
Florida City, Florida

Florida City is a city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, Florida, United States. The population was 7,843 at the 2000 census. As of 2004, the population recorded by the U.S....
)
SR 826
State Road 826 (Florida)

State Road 826 is a bypass route around the greater Miami, Florida, Florida area, extending from North Miami Beach, Florida along Northeast 163rd Street into the Golden Glades Interchange, then becoming the Palmetto Expressway as it extends westward toward Miami Lakes, Florida before bending southward to serve Hialeah, Florida, Hiale...
(Palmetto Expressway) Golden Glades Interchange
Golden Glades Interchange

The Golden Glades Interchange, located in Miami Gardens, Florida and North Miami Beach, Florida, Florida, USA, is the confluence of five major roads serving eastern and southern Florida: U.S....
to U.S. Route 1/Kendall
Kendall, Florida

Kendall is a census-designated place and an unincorporated suburban community in Miami-Dade County, Florida, Florida, southwest of Miami, Florida....
SR 836
State Road 836 (Florida)

State Road 836, locally known as the Dolphin Expressway, is a 16-mile-long six-lane divided toll road currently extending from U.S. Route 1 and State Road A1A in Miami, Florida, westward past Miami International Airport and the Homestead Extension of Florida's Turnpike to just north of the intersection of Southwest 137th Avenue and...
(Dolphin Expressway) Downtown to Turnpike via MIA
Miami International Airport

Miami International Airport is a public airport located eight miles northwest of the central business district of Miami, Florida, in unincorporated area Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States....
SR 874
State Road 874 (Florida)

State Road 874, also known as the Don Shula Expressway, extends , connecting State Road 826 and the Homestead Extension of Florida's Turnpike in central Miami-Dade County, Florida....
(Don Shula Expressway) 826/Bird Road to 878
SR 878
State Road 878 (Florida)

State Road 878 , named the Snapper Creek Expressway, is a short east-west freeway south of Miami, Florida, United States. It provides a spur from State Road 874 east to U.S....
(Snapper Creek Expressway) Kendall
Kendall, Florida

Kendall is a census-designated place and an unincorporated suburban community in Miami-Dade County, Florida, Florida, southwest of Miami, Florida....
to Turnpike/Homestead
Homestead, Florida

Homestead is a city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, Florida, United States nestled between Biscayne National Park to the east and Everglades National Park to the west....
SR 924
State Road 924 (Florida)

State Road 924 is a 8.5-mile east-west highway connecting Interstate 75 and the State Road 826 in Hialeah, Florida and State Road 909 in North Miami, Florida....
(Gratigny Parkway) Miami Lakes
Miami Lakes, Florida

Miami Lakes is an incorporation town and former census-designated place in Miami-Dade County, Florida, Florida, United States. The population was 22,676 at the 2000 census....
to Opa-locka
Opa-locka, Florida

Opa-locka is a city located in Miami-Dade County, Florida, Florida, United States. As of the mid decade census, the population was 15,376 as recorded by the U.S....

In 2007, Miami was identified as having the rudest drivers in the United States, the second year in a row to have been cited, in a poll commissioned by automobile club AutoVantage. Miami is also consistently ranked as one of the most dangerous cities in the United States for pedestrians.

In popular culture

Many television shows have been set or are filmed in Miami. The controversial Emmy winning drama Nip/Tuck
Nip/Tuck

Nip/Tuck is an United States Emmy Award- and Golden Globe Award-winning television series medical drama series created by Ryan Murphy for FX Networks....
, CBS

CBS

CBS Broadcasting Inc. is an American radio network and television network. The name is derived from the initials of Columbia Broadcasting System, its former legal name....
's CSI: Miami
CSI: Miami

CSI: Miami is a Spin-off of the CBS network series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. The series is an American crime drama television series that trails the investigations of a team of Miami-Dade forensic scientists as they unveil the circumstances behind mysterious and unusual deaths and other crimes....
, and Showtime's Dexter
Dexter (TV series)

Dexter is an American television drama series that airs on American pay TV Showtime. It is based on the novel Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay and adapted for television by Emmy Award-winning screenwriter James Manos, Jr., who wrote the pilot episode....
all take place in Miami. The Jackie Gleason Show
The Jackie Gleason Show

The Jackie Gleason Show was the name given to a series of popular television shows that starred Jackie Gleason, which ran from 1952 to 1970....
was taped in Miami Beach from 1964 to 1970. The NBC show Good Morning, Miami
Good Morning, Miami

Good Morning, Miami is a sitcom which ran from 2002 in television to 2004 in television on National Broadcasting Company. Created by David Kohan and Max Mutchnick, the show focused on the personal and professional life of Jake, the executive producer of the lowest-rated morning show in the country, based in Miami, Florida....
was fictionally based around the workings of a Miami television station. The popular sitcoms The Golden Girls
The Golden Girls

The Golden Girls is an United States situation comedy that originally aired on NBC from September 14, 1985, to May 9, 1992. Starring Bea Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan and Estelle Getty, the show centers on four older women sharing a Miami, Florida home....
and Empty Nest were based in Miami, although filming was actually done in Los Angeles. Miami Vice
Miami Vice

Miami Vice is an United States of America television series produced by Michael Mann for NBC. The show became noted for its heavy integration and use of music and visual effects to tell a story....
was also based and filmed in the Miami area. Keeping with its modern music tradition, the city has recently hosted the 2004 and 2005 MTV Video Music Awards
MTV Video Music Awards

The MTV Video Music Awards were established in the end of the summer of 1984 in television by MTV to celebrate the top music videos of the year....
. A recent show to be set in Miami is the USA Network

USA Network

USA Network is an United States cable television channel launched in 1977. The channel shows a variety of original and second-run programming, from syndicated TV series to edited Film....
's Burn Notice
Burn notice

A burn notice is an official statement issued by one intelligence agency to other agencies. It states that an individual or a group is unreliable for one or more reasons or purposes....
, which is filmed on location and in studios located in Miami.

In the mid-2000s, Miami started to become a popular backdrop for reality television shows. Reality programming set in the city include the TLC

TLC (TV channel)

TLC is an United States Cable television network that carries a variety of informational and Reality television. TLC has been owned by Discovery Communications since 1991, the same company that operates the Discovery Channel, Animal Planet and The Science Channel, as well as other learning-themed networks....
show Miami Ink
Miami Ink

Miami Ink is a reality show on TLC that follows the events that take place at Love Hate, a tattoo shop in Miami Beach, Florida. The show premiered in July 2005 and entered its third season on June 12, 2007....
; Discovery Channel

Discovery Channel

The Discovery Channel is an United States satellite and cable TV channel , founded by John Hendricks and distributed by Discovery Communications....
's After Dark; Animal Planet

Animal Planet

Animal Planet is an United States satellite television and cable television , launched on June 1 1996 and distributed by Discovery Communications....
's Miami Animal Police
Miami Animal Police

Miami Animal Police is an American documentary film reality show television series that premiered on January 5, 2004 on Animal Planet. It takes place in Miami, Florida and the surrounding Miami-Dade County, Florida, an area of more than ....
; MTV

MTV

MTV is an United States cable television network based in Media of New York City. Launched on August 1, 1981, the original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJ ....
's 8th & Ocean
8th & Ocean

8th & Ocean was a reality TV show that premiered on MTV on March 7, 2006. The show followed the lives of 10 male and female model from Irene Marie Models living together in Miami, Florida's South Beach area....
, Making Menudo
Making Menudo

Making Menudo is a MTV series about getting young talented hopefuls to become part of the new Menudo band.The castmembers include J.C, Antony,Carlos, Christopher, Dennis, Eric, Hansel, Henry, JG, Jorge, Jose, Monti, Carlos "Pena", Thomas, Trevor and Emmanuel....
, the fourth season of Making the Band

Making the Band

Making the Band is an American Broadcasting Company/MTV reality television series that exists in separate iterations, each iteration focusing on a specific music act....
, Room Raiders
Room Raiders

Room Raiders is a Dating game show/reality television series on MTV....
; The Real World: Miami
The Real World: Miami

The Real World: Miami is the fifth season of MTV's reality television series The Real World, which focuses on a group of diverse strangers living together for several months in a different city each season, as cameras follow and document their lives and interpersonal relationships....
, and The X Effect
The X Effect

The X Effect is a reality show that began airing on MTV in March 2007. The concept is that pair of exes ? an ex-boyfriend and ex-girlfriend ? spend a weekend at a resort hotel, during which time they are given various romantic activities while the others covertly watch them....
; VH1

VH1

VH1 is an United States cable television network based in New York City. Launched on January 1, 1985 in television, the original purpose of the channel was to build on the success of MTV by playing music videos, but targeting a slighter older demographic than its sister channel, focusing on the lighter, softer side of popular music....
's Hogan Knows Best
Hogan Knows Best

Hogan Knows Best was an United States television show produced by Pink Sneakers Productions and centered around the family life of professional wrestling legend Hulk Hogan ....
; TruTV's Bounty Girls: Miami

Bounty Girls: Miami

Bounty Girls: Miami was a Court TV show that features licensed female bail bond agents that track down and apprehend local fugitives. The women work for Sunshine State Bail Bonds....
; A&E

A&E Network

A&E is a cable television and satellite television television network with headquarters in Manhattan and offices in Stamford, Connecticut, Atlanta, Detroit, Los Angeles, Chicago, and London....
's The First 48
The First 48

The First 48 is an United States reality television show based on homicide detective units in various cities across the United States. The show's premise is summarized in its title voiceover: "For homicide detectives, the clock starts ticking the moment they are called....
and the third season of Bravo's Top Chef
Top Chef

Top Chef is an United States reality television competition show that airs on the cable television network Bravo , in which chefs compete against each other in weekly challenges....
.

The video games Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City is a Nonlinear gameplay action-adventure game computer game and video game designed by Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games....
, which became one of the best selling video games in history, and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories is a Nonlinear gameplay action-adventure game video game developed by Rockstar Leeds in association with Rockstar North....
, take place in Vice City

Vice City

Vice City is a fictional city in the Grand Theft Auto series, based on Miami, Florida. Two versions of the city have appeared in different generations of the series:...
, a fictional city inspired by Miami, including some of the same architecture and geography. There are also characters in the game who speak Haitian Creole and Spanish

Spanish language

Spanish or Castilian is a Romance languages that originated in northern Spain, and gradually spread in the Kingdom of Castile and evolved into the principal language of government and trade....
.

Miami has acted as the backdrop for many movies, including There's Something About Mary
There's Something About Mary

There's Something About Mary is a 1998 in film romantic comedy film, directed by the Farrelly Brothers Bobby Farrelly and Peter Farrelly. Starring Ben Stiller, Cameron Diaz and Matt Dillon, it is a combination of romantic comedy and gross-out film....
, Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay, Wild Things
Wild Things

Wild Things is a 1998 in film erotic thriller film starring Matt Dillon, Kevin Bacon, Denise Richards, Neve Campbell and Bill Murray. It was directed by John McNaughton....
, Marley & Me
Marley & Me

Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog is a The New York Times bestselling autobiographical novel by journalist John Grogan , published in 2005....
, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective is a 1994 in film Cinema of the United States comedy film directed by Tom Shadyac and starring Jim Carrey. It co-stars Courteney Cox, Tone Loc, and Sean Young among others....
, Out of Time, 2 Fast 2 Furious
2 Fast 2 Furious

2 Fast 2 Furious is a 2003 film that is the second installment of The Fast and the Furious , following 2001's The Fast and the Furious ....
, Bad Boys
Bad Boys (1995 film)

Bad Boys is a 1995 in film Action movie comedy film, directed by Michael Bay, produced by Don Simpson/Jerry Bruckheimer, producers of Top Gun and Beverly Hills Cop, and starring Martin Lawrence and Will Smith....
& Bad Boys II
Bad Boys II

Bad Boys II is a 2003 in film Action film-comedy film directed by Michael Bay, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, and starring Martin Lawrence and Will Smith....
, Transporter 2
Transporter 2

Transporter 2 is a 2005 in film France action / crime / driving film directed by Louis Leterrier and produced by Luc Besson. It is the sequel to 2002 in film The Transporter....
, The Birdcage
The Birdcage

The Birdcage is a 1996 in film comedy film directed by Mike Nichols, and stars Robin Williams, Nathan Lane, Gene Hackman, Dianne Wiest, Dan Futterman, Calista Flockhart, Hank Azaria, and Christine Baranski....
, The Substitute
The Substitute

The Substitute is a 1996 in film action-crime film-thriller film directed by Robert Mandell and starring Tom Berenger, Marc Anthony, Ernie Hudson, William Forsythe , Raymond Cruz, and Luis Guzm?n....
, Blow
Blow (film)

Blow is a 2001 drama/biopic film about the United States cocaine smuggler George Jung, film director by Ted Demme. David McKenna and Nick Cassavetes adapted Bruce Porter's 1993 book Blow: How a Small Town Boy Made $100 Million with the Medellin Cocaine Cartel and Lost It All for the screenplay....
, True Lies
True Lies

True Lies is a 1994 in film Action film-comedy film. It was directed by James Cameron, and stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Arnold , Bill Paxton, Tia Carrere, Charlton Heston, and Art Malik....
, Reno 911!: Miami
Reno 911!: Miami

Reno 911!: Miami is a film based on Comedy Central's Reno 911! directed by cast-member Robert Ben Garant, who plays "Junior." It was released on February 23, 2007....
, Quick Pick
Quick Pick

Quick Pick is a comedy film directed by Will Vazquez. The movie stars John Bryant as Eddie; Anna Moreno-Nava as Monica; Angelina Assereto as Sonia; Oscar A....
, Miami Vice
Miami Vice (film)

Miami Vice is a 2006 in film American crime drama film about two Miami police detectives, James "Sonny" Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs, who go undercover to fight drug trafficking operations....
(based on the 1980s television series of the same name), Cocaine Cowboys
Cocaine Cowboys

Cocaine Cowboys is a documentary film directed by Billy Corben and produced by Alfred Spellman and Billy Corben through their Miami-based media studio rakontur....
, 1983's Scarface
Scarface (1983 film)

Scarface is a 1983 in film epic film crime drama film directed by Brian De Palma, written by Oliver Stone and starring Al Pacino as Tony Montana....
, Police Academy 5, Miami Blues
Miami Blues (film)

Miami Blues is a 1990 film based on the novel of the same name by Charles Willeford. It stars Alec Baldwin, Fred Ward, and Jennifer Jason Leigh....
, and the James Bond

James Bond

James Bond 007 is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections....
films Goldfinger
Goldfinger (film)

Goldfinger is the third spy film in the James Bond James Bond , and the third to star Sean Connery as the fictional character Secret Intelligence Service agent James Bond ....
, Thunderball
Thunderball (film)

Thunderball is the fourth spy film in the James Bond James Bond Dr. No , From Russia With Love and Goldfinger , and the fourth to star Sean Connery as the fictional character Secret Intelligence Service agent James Bond ....
,and Casino Royale
Casino Royale (2006 film)

Casino Royale is the twenty-first film in the James Bond James Bond ; it is directed by Martin Campbell and the first to star Daniel Craig as Secret Intelligence Service agent James Bond ....
.

Miami is a center for Latin television and film production. As a result, many Spanish-language programs are filmed in the many television production studios, predominantly in Hialeah

Hialeah, Florida

Doral, Florida

Doral is a city located in north-central Miami-Dade County, Florida, west of Miami International Airport; Doral is a suburb of Miami, Florida. The City of Doral takes its name from the Doral Golf Resort & Spa located within its municipal boundaries....
. This includes gameshows, variety shows, news programs, and telenovelas. Arguably, the most famous Miami-filmed programs are Sábado Gigante
Sábado Gigante

S?bado Gigante is a Spanish-language variety television show; it is Univision's longest running program, and the oldest American TV program in Spanish still running....
, a Saturday night variety show seen throughout the United States, South America and Europe, and the daytime talk shows Cristina
Cristina Saralegui

Cristina Saralegui is a Cuban American journalist, actor and talk show host, well-known for hosting the Spanish-language eponymous show Cristina....
and El Gordo y la Flaca
El Gordo y la Flaca

El Gordo y la Flaca is a Spanish language television talk show which parodies Laurel & Hardy, the 1930's comedy act. It first aired in 1998 and is hosted by Ra?l De Molina aka El Gordo and Lili Estefan aka La Flaca....
.

Sister cities

Miami has twelve sister cities

Town twinning

Town twinning, also known as sister cities, is a concept whereby towns or city in geographically and politically distinct areas are paired, with the goal of fostering human contact and cultural links between their inhabitants....
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Bogotá
Bogotá

Bogot? ? officially named Bogot?, D.C. , formerly called Santa Fe de Bogot? ? is the capital city of Colombia, as well as the most populous city in the country, with 6,776,009 inhabitants ....
, Colombia
Colombia

Colombia , officially the Republic of Colombia , is a country in north-western South America. Colombia is bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the north west by Panama; and to the west by the Pacific Ocean....
since 1971
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires is the Capital and largest city of Argentina. It is located on the southern shore of the R?o de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent....
, Argentina
Argentina

Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic , is a country in South America, constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city....
1979
Kagoshima, Japan 1990
Lima
Lima

Lima is the Capital and largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chill?n River, R?mac River and Lur?n River rivers, on a coast overlooking the Pacific Ocean....
, Peru
Peru

Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....
1977
Madrid
Madrid

Madrid is the Capital and largest city of Spain. It is the Largest cities of the European Union by population within city limits in the European Union after Greater London and Berlin, and its Madrid metropolitan area is the Largest urban areas of the European Union in the European Union after Paris aire urbaine, Greater London Urban Area, a...
, Spain 1997
Nice
Nice

Nice is a city in Southern France France located on the Mediterranean Sea coast, between Marseille, France, and Genoa, Italy, with 1,197,751 inhabitants in the 2007 estimate....
, France 1997
Port-au-Prince
Port-au-Prince

Port-au-Prince is the Capital and largest List of cities in Haiti of Haiti. Growth, especially in crowded slums in nearby plains and hillsides, has raised the population of the Port-au-Prince area to between 2.5 and 3 million....
, Haiti
Haiti

Haiti , officially the Republic of Haiti , is a Haitian Creole language- and French language-speaking Caribbean country. Along with the Dominican Republic, it occupies the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antilles archipelago....
1991
Qingdao
Qingdao

, best known in the West by its Chinese Postal Map Romanization Tsingtao, is a major city in eastern Shandong province of China, People's Republic of China....
, China
People's Republic of China

The People's Republic of China , commonly known as China, is the largest country in East Asia and the List of countries by population in the world with over 1.3 billion people, approximately a fifth of the world's population....
2005
Santiago, Chile
Santiago, Chile

Santiago , is the Capital and largest city of Chile, and the center of its largest conurbation . It is located in the country's central valley, at an elevation of 520 m Above mean sea level....
1986
Salvador
Salvador, Bahia

Salvador is a city on the northeast coast of Brazil and the capital of the Northeast Region, Brazil States of Brazil of Bahia. Salvador is also known as Brazil's capital of happiness due to its easygoing population and countless popular outdoor parties, including its street carnival....
, Brazil 2006
Santo Domingo
Santo Domingo

Santo Domingo, or in full, Santo Domingo de Guzm?n, is the Capital and largest city in the Dominican Republic, and the second largest city in the Caribbean....
, Dominican Republic
Dominican Republic

The Dominican Republic is a nation on the island of Hispaniola, part of the Greater Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean region. The western third of the island is occupied by the nation of Haiti, making Hispaniola one of two Caribbean islands that are List of divided islands, Saint Martin being the other....
1987
Varna
Varna

Varna is the largest city and seaside resort on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast and in Northern Bulgaria, third-largest in Bulgaria after Sofia and Plovdiv, and Largest cities of the European Union by population within city limits, with a population of 352,211....
, Bulgaria

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