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Florida


The southeasternmost state of the contiguous United States, bordered by Alabama and Georgia to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the east and south, and the Gulf of Mexico and Alabama to the west. Its capital is Tallahassee, and its largest city is Jacksonville.	1
‡ Home of Walt Disney World, an amusement park near Orlando, and many other theme parks. (See Walt Disney.)	2
‡ Home of the Kennedy Space Center, launch site for many U.S. space missions.	3
‡ St. Augustine, located on the coast of Northern Florida, is the oldest city in the United States, settled in the sixteenth century by Spain.	4
‡ One of the Confederate states during the Civil War.	5

The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. Edited by E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Joseph F. Kett, and James Trefil. Copyright © 2002 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

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