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Primarily, Florida is a state in the United States.

Florida may also refer to:

Places

Caribbean

Europe

  • Florida (Barcelona Metro), a station in Barcelona, Spain
  • Mount Florida, a neighborhood of Glasgow, Scotland
  • Strata Florida Abbey, a Cistercian abbey in Ceredigion, Wales
  • Strata Florida railway station, a former station in Ceredigion, Wales
  • Ystrad Fflur, a hamlet in Ceredigion, Wales, also known as Strata Florida

South America

Argentina

  • Florida, Buenos Aires, a neighborhood of Vicente López Partido
  • Florida Street in Buenos Aires
  • Florida (Buenos Aires Metro), a station in Buenos Aires

Bolivia

  • Florida Province, province of the Santa Cruz Department

Brazil

  • Flórida Paulista, a municipality in the state of São Paulo
  • Flórida, Paraná

Chile

Colombia

Peru

  • Florida District, Peru

Uruguay

North America

Canada

  • Florida, Cochrane District, in Cochrane District, Ontario
  • Florida, Frontenac County, in the city of Kingston, Frontenac County, Ontario

United States

Elsewhere

  • Florida, Copán, Honduras
  • Florida, Gauteng, South Africa
  • Florida Islands, in the Solomon Islands in the western Pacific
  • Floridablanca, Pampanga, Philippines

People

  • Richard Florida (born 1957), American economist
  • Florida Jayalath (1936–2007), Sri Lankan Sinhala cinema actress
  • Tramar Dillard (born 1979), better known as Flo Rida, American rapper

Arts, entertainment, and media

Music

Albums

  • Florida (Diplo album), 2004
  • Florida (Sofia Talvik album), 2010

Songs

  • "Florida (Where the Sawgrass Meets the Sky)", the state song of Florida
  • "Florida", a song by Grandaddy from their 2005 EP Excerpts from the Diary of Todd Zilla
  • "Florida", a song by Modest Mouse from their 2007 album We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
  • "Florida!!!", a song by Taylor Swift featuring Florence and The Machine from her 2024 album The Tortured Poets Department

Other uses in music

  • Florida (ballet), a ballet by Marius Petipa and Cesare Pugni
  • Florida breaks, a genre of electronic music

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

  • "Florida" (30 Rock), a 2013 episode of 30 Rock
  • Florida, a sardana dance by Catalan composer Joan Lamote de Grignon
  • Florida Evans, the lead character on the television series Good Times

Ships

  • Florida, lightship at Carysfort Reef, Florida Keys, 1831–1852
  • CSS Florida, various ships of that name
  • SS Florida, collided with the RMS Republic in 1909
  • USS Florida, various ships of that name

Sports

  • Florida Gators, athletic teams of the University of Florida
  • Florida Marlins, former name of the Miami Marlins, a Major League Baseball franchise based in Miami Gardens, Florida
  • Florida Panthers, National Hockey League franchise based in Sunrise, Florida

Transportation

  • GV Florida Transport, a Philippine bus company
  • Zastava Florida, also known as Yugo Florida and Nasr Florida 1400, a brand of car made by the Yugoslavian car manufacturer Zastava

Other uses

  • Florida group, a Buenos Aires–based avant-garde literary group in the 1920s, also often referred to as the Martín Fierro group
  • University of Florida

See also

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