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U.S.A’s fun and family resort of Florida.

By Mark on February 10, 2009

This is a post about the south-eastern peninsula state of Florida in the United States of America. It also appears to be a very popular area for british people to holiday there. This state covers 151,939 sq km or 58,664 sq miles roughly in area, the capital city of Florida is Tallahasse, other larger cities in Florida are Cape Coral, Tampa and St.Petersburg. Known as the “Sunshine State.” Held by the Spanish after they explored the america’s in 1513 by Ponce de Leon.
In 1819, Florida was sold to the north americans and this became the 27th state of the U.S.A in 1845.
To learn more about Florida, please refer to Wikipedia at the bottom of this post.

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This is a satellite image taken from Google Earth of Florida, USA.

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This is a satellite image taken from Google Earth of North Miami, Florida,U.S.A.

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This is a satellite image taken from Google Earth of South Miami, Florida, U.S.A.

orlando
This is a satellite image taken from Google Earth of Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.

jacksonville
This is a satellite image taken from Google Earth of Jacksonville, Florida, U.S.A.


This is the Flag Anthem of Florida, U.S.A, taken from Youtube.

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This is a panoramio picture taken of Florida bridge in Jacksonville, Florida, U.S.A.

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This is panoramio picture taken of south beach, Miami, Florida, U.S.A.

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This is a panoramio picture of Lake Eola, Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.


This is a youtube video of the top ten beaches in Florida, U.S.A.

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2 Responses to “U.S.A’s fun and family resort of Florida.”

  1. Mum
    12:18 pm on February 14th, 2009

    Hi Mark. I enjoyed this article. I am sure other people will too so I have stumbled it

  2. Mark
    9:10 pm on February 22nd, 2009

    Thanks for that mum.

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